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Content ArticleDo you see female patients? Do they have painful periods? Pain pre or post their periods? Painful sex? Do they suffer chronic pain, which may be intermittent or constant? Do they have pain when passing urine or with bowel movements? Is it painful to place a speculum for a smear test? Have you considered endometriosis? The Royal College of Nursing has provided a factsheet for nurses with guidance on how to recognise symptoms, setting out pathways of care and signposts to useful online resources.
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Content ArticleIn this article, Berlanda et al. discuss the safety of different medical treatments for endometriosis to relieve pain.
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Community Post*Trigger warning. This post includes personal gynaecological experiences of a traumatic nature. What is your experience of having a hysteroscopy? We would like to hear - good or bad so that we can help campaign for safer, harm free care. You can read Patient Safety Learning's blog about improving hysteroscopy safety here. You'll need to be a hub member to comment below, it's quick and easy to do. You can sign up here.
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Content ArticleThe author of this article, published in The Guardian, argues that centuries of female exclusion has meant women’s diseases are often missed, misdiagnosed or remain a total mystery.
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Content ArticleGirls and women need effective, safe, and affordable menstrual products. Single-use products are regularly selected by agencies for resource-poor settings; the menstrual cup is a less known alternative. The authors of this study, published in The Lancet, reviewed international studies on menstrual cup leakage, acceptability, and safety and explored menstrual cup availability to inform programmes.
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Woman’s Hour: Hysteroscopy (June 2019)
PatientSafetyLearning Team posted an article in Women's health
Patients are not always given a choice between an outpatient hysteroscopy and a general anaesthetic. Radio's 4's Women's Hour discusses the issue of inadequate pain relief for hysteroscopies. The discussion includes one patient's story of the trauma she suffered and a response from a consultant in reproductive health. The interview was published on the Hysteroscopy Action website, please follow the link below to listen. -
Content ArticleThis patient story essay was produced by the Campaign against painful hysteroscopy to highlight the extreme levels of pain many women experience when undergoing the procedure. The campaign calls for an end to inadequate pain relief for hysteroscopies.
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Content ArticleThis leaflet, produced by Kingston Hospital, is designed to prepare women for hysteroscopy procedures that are performed in the gynaecology outpatients department. Join the conversation on the hub about hysteroscopies.
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Content ArticleHysterical Women is a blog inspired by the work of freelance health journalist, Sarah Graham. It was launched in October 2018, after she noticed that a common theme in so much of her work was women not being taken seriously, not being trusted to know their own bodies, and having their concerns dismissed or disbelieved by doctors. This cut right across the health spectrum – whether their concerns were related to mental, physical, sexual, or any other kind of health problem.
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Content ArticleThis is an interview with Gabrielle Jackson, author of Pain and Prejudice: A call to arms for women and their bodies, published by the Hysterical Women website. Jackson talks about her diagnosis of endometriosis, the lack of advanced medical knowledge around women's medical issues and a need for access to better treatments.
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Content ArticleToo often, women are struggling to get the right information they need about their health, to book routine appointments and to get their basic health needs met. Health services miss opportunities to ask the right questions, prevent illness and ensure the best outcomes for girls and women. This report from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) follows a survey of over 3000 women in the UK and identifies simple and cost-effective solutions to prevent girls and women falling through the cracks of our health systems. A strategic approach is required across the life course to prevent predictable morbidity and mortality and to address the determinants of health specific to women’s health.
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Content ArticleA recording of the conference from Midwifery Conversation on ‘action to reduce the disparate deaths and damage to Black mothers and babies in England.'
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Content ArticleThis NICE guideline covers diagnosing and managing endometriosis. It aims to raise awareness of the symptoms of endometriosis, and to provide clear advice on what action to take when women with signs and symptoms first present in healthcare settings. It also provides advice on the range of treatments available.
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News ArticleRegina Stepherson needed surgery for rectocele, a prolapse of the wall between the rectum and the vagina. Her surgeons said that her bladder also needed to be lifted and did so with vaginal mesh, a surgical mesh used to reinforce the bladder. Following the surgery in 2010, Stepherson, then 48. said she suffered debilitating symptoms for two years. An active woman who rode horses, Stepherson said she had constant pain, trouble walking, fevers off and on, weight loss, nausea and lethargy after the surgery. She spent days sitting on the couch, she said. In August 2012, Stepherson and her daughter saw an ad relating to vaginal mesh that mentioned 10 symptoms and said that if you had them, to call a lawyer. Vaginal mesh, used to repair and improve weakened pelvic tissues, is implanted in the vaginal wall. It was initially — in 1998 — thought to be a safe and easy solution for women suffering from stress urinary incontinence. But over time, complications were reported, including chronic inflammation, and mesh that shrinks and becomes encased in scar tissue causing pain, infection and protrusion through the vaginal wall. More than 100,000 lawsuits have been filed against makers of mesh, according to ConsumerSafety.org, making it “one of the largest mass torts in history.” Read full story Source: Washington Post, 20 January 2019
