Comments on: Campaign to End Chronic Pain in Women Launches May 19

By: modern pilates courses

modern pilates courses — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 04:33:04 +0000

This is absolutely great venture and as most of the women in our society suffers from pain, the steps taken to cure it is an awesome movement and we all need special care to succeed this campaign.

By: Best Womens Health & Fitness

Best Womens Health & Fitness — Wed, 26 May 2010 05:10:00 +0000

This is great news for many women out there suffering from chronic pain problems. Look forward to hearing how this develops.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Fri, 14 May 2010 21:05:38 +0000

Thanks for expressing your concern – it’s clear that you object to the focus on women in the organization’s campaign. However, please refrain from leaving multiple similar comments under different usernames.

By: WhatAboutMen

WhatAboutMen — Fri, 14 May 2010 17:30:02 +0000

Wow, talk about screwing over the minority. Just because you think that women develop IBS more often than men you decide to completely ignore our suffering and our pain? Wow….how absolutely sexist.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Fri, 14 May 2010 14:36:23 +0000

As you’ll note from the paragraph above, the campaign is focused on women is because “These four either solely affect women, or target women at least four times more often than men.” That statement clearly acknowledges that men also are affected by some of the conditions, just not as frequently, although I’m sure you could pass along to the campaign any constructive suggestions for men’s involvement.

By: WhatAboutMen

WhatAboutMen — Fri, 14 May 2010 14:11:39 +0000

You do realize that these conditions also afflict men? I’ve had IBS since being a little kid and have suffered through several surgeries and hospitalizations. I am a bit insulted you think this is gender specific.

By: Nancy Petersen

Nancy Petersen — Thu, 13 May 2010 01:58:07 +0000

Bravo, long overdue, too long women have been dismissed as neurotic. In the years I lead the endometriosis treatment program in Bend Oregon, 75% of our patients had been dismissed as neurotic. All had significant disease missed at previous surgeries. Chronic pain may not be a terminal illness, but despair can be

By: paula kamen

paula kamen — Wed, 12 May 2010 02:25:14 +0000

This is so long overdue, something to really appreciate! How ironic that during the heavily Freud-influenced years of the past century, a way that doctors would “discredit” women as hysterical was if they named “too many” complaints. That raised suspicions that they were just being dramatic. (I’ve written about those women with migraine and chronic daily headache being very likely to also have other types of chronic fatigue and pain problems, due to similar underlying brain chemistry issues.)

By: mrs spock

mrs spock — Tue, 11 May 2010 01:45:53 +0000

This is good news! I have several of these overlapping conditions myself, and there truly aren’t many viable options for reducing the pain.