Why Women Struggle to Get The Right Diagnosis

“I also had really heavy periods,” she says. “In high school, my mom taught me to use two super tampons at once so I could go to school. My dad once had to take me to the hospital because I was having such bad pelvic pain on one side. But the ER doctor just said that I was probably ovulating and it was normal to have more pain with ovulation.”

Over the next 20 years, she saw a wide range of doctors, seeking relief from the monthly misery of her menstrual cycle.

“I saw gynecologists, family physicians, gastroenterologists, naturopaths,” says Seppi, now a 36-year-old social worker for an Atlanta nonprofit. “None of them could figure out what was wrong. The GI doctors told me I probably had irritable bowel syndrome. With the gynecologists, I was told, ‘Oh, that’s just what having a period is.’ Some thought my symptoms were psychological and asked if I had been sexually abused when I was younger.”.. more at https://www.webmd.com/women/news/20180607/why-women-are-getting-misdiagnosed?src=RSS_PUBLIC