STORIES OF GYNECOLOGY
Menopause
1% of women under 40 will undergo early menopause. This is one woman's story.
Endometriosis
At least one in 10 women suffer with endometriosis, a disorder where the tissue that usually lines the inside of the uterus instead grows outside of it. Despite how common the condition is, it still takes an average of seven and a half years to be diagnosed.
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
Amy Medling's podcast & blog on living with PCOS
Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
The often misdiagnosed disease that makes you feel like your junk is on fire
An anonymous author's story in Broadly of being diagnosed with PID
Pelvic Organ Prolapse
Infertility
feMale infertility
Peggy Orenstein's widely hailed and bestselling memoir of her quest for parenthood begins when she tells her new husband that she's not sure she ever wants to be a mother; it ends six years later after she's done almost everything humanly possible to achieve that goal.
Male infertility
Mason Wheeler and Phillip got to sit down for a VULNERABLE conversation on Male Infertility and how they've dealt with the disappointment and other factors of the diagnosis.
Read this article from the Washington Post here!
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Sexual Dysfunction
Female Sexual Dysfunction
Abigail Chandler & her story
In this series of visual essays, women talk about their most personal reproductive health issues and problems. Here, one woman talks about painful sex, something that affects 1 in 10 women. She is eventually diagnosed with severe endometriosis - but not before she spends years having her pain dismissed and misdiagnosed by doctors.