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Educate your family about Myths regarding menstruation:
1. If u miss periods, u are pregnant.
2. Exercise during periods Increases pain.
3. You shouldn't wash ur hair.
4. Periods implies that u can bear babies now.
5. PMS is unreal.
6. By using tampons u loose virginity.
1. If u miss periods, u are pregnant.
2. Exercise during periods Increases pain.
3. You shouldn't wash ur hair.
4. Periods implies that u can bear babies now.
5. PMS is unreal.
6. By using tampons u loose virginity.
7. You can't get pregnant while on ur periods.
8. You shouldn't eat pickle/sour and starchy food.
9. You can't perform holy rituals.
10. You should sleep on floor/ separate room/outside house.
#menstruation #MenstrualHygieneDay2022 #tabooo #mythosworld
8. You shouldn't eat pickle/sour and starchy food.
9. You can't perform holy rituals.
10. You should sleep on floor/ separate room/outside house.
#menstruation #MenstrualHygieneDay2022 #tabooo #mythosworld
-Delayed periods can be due to stress, medical conditions like PCOD and hormonal disturbances.
-Exercise helps in reducing pain and better health.
-Wash hair, take a bath. Maintaining hygiene is most important to avoid infections.
-PMS includes headaches, bloating, mood swings.
-Exercise helps in reducing pain and better health.
-Wash hair, take a bath. Maintaining hygiene is most important to avoid infections.
-PMS includes headaches, bloating, mood swings.
@katystoll Here are recent studies focused on menstrual cycle changes after Covid vaccination....won't fit in one tweet so I'll make a thread...🧵
I haven't read all of these yet.
#menstruation #menstrualhealth #menstrual #women #health #womenshealth #WomenEmpowerment #periods #period
I haven't read all of these yet.
#menstruation #menstrualhealth #menstrual #women #health #womenshealth #WomenEmpowerment #periods #period
@katystoll "Web and social media searches highlight menstrual irregularities as a global concern in COVID-19 vaccinations"
medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
Addressing #stigma: If you are my friend or colleague, regardless of gender, you get to know my ovaries whether you want to or not. I’m a woman with #endometriosis & #fibroid #menstrualhealth pain. Instead of seeming “flaky” I will tell you my #womenshealth reason I must cancel. 
This is also a generational thing. Boomers and some GenX were “I am as tough as a guy... ovaries.. what ovaries?”
Me: “I have ovaries. They are complicated suckers. We’ll have to work around them.”
#endometriosis #fibroid #womenshealth #menstrualhealth
swhr.org/identifying-ba…
Me: “I have ovaries. They are complicated suckers. We’ll have to work around them.”
#endometriosis #fibroid #womenshealth #menstrualhealth
swhr.org/identifying-ba…
One of the things that made me 🥰is when a MAN reached out to me, because I tweet on this, for his female significant other to ask if I had resources to help her
If you hear of me being “anti-woman” I am anti-#professionalism (women) who suppress open uncomfortable communication
If you hear of me being “anti-woman” I am anti-#professionalism (women) who suppress open uncomfortable communication
Uteri owners have it hard.
Ouch. Ouch. Ouch.
#endometriosis #fibroids #womenshealth #menstrualhealth
Ouch. Ouch. Ouch.
#endometriosis #fibroids #womenshealth #menstrualhealth
On a positive note. I did not pass out or almost pass out this month. 👍Last two months my mom was newly in the ICU then she had newly passed away and I could not get out of bed without syncope or near syncope. And I had just had my 2nd vaccine so was already not well.
There are all these wise people who say things about suffering but it’s honestly true..
..that the more suffering you experience the more gratitude you can have..
..because when something is not as bad as it used to be do you feel immense relief, #gratitude
..that the more suffering you experience the more gratitude you can have..
..because when something is not as bad as it used to be do you feel immense relief, #gratitude
I state, highlight, mark up, not insinuate
Why is someone who likely does not menstruate a sudden expert on #womenshealth to identify a WOC seeking #data #quality & #integrity as the threat...to women?
"Respecting" social science = using respectable methods, not online surveys.
Why is someone who likely does not menstruate a sudden expert on #womenshealth to identify a WOC seeking #data #quality & #integrity as the threat...to women?
"Respecting" social science = using respectable methods, not online surveys.
What you see in the tweet and the "study" is ego, defensiveness & flagrant Dunning-Kruger effect for #womenshealth, #menstrualhealth, #COVID19, #vaccine #research.
The best way to demonstrate the value of a field is to be consistent on #quality not
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
The best way to demonstrate the value of a field is to be consistent on #quality not
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Adding the word "experience" to an online survey of biological & immunological mechanisms does not make it anthropology. People who are spreading online rumors about vaccines need to take a hard look at what they are doing. There are valid ways to collect health data. Use them.
There are real, concerning, harmful gaps in knowledge in #womenshealth. Bad data of the GIGO method of data collection for quick and dirty "research" on "vaccine side effect" merely replaces one harm with another harm. searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/definition/gar…
If collecting data, overtly on "vaccine" and "side effect" claiming causation from temporal relation
for "after" on something as highly variable as menses, w/ deliberate inclusion of perimenopause (known menstrual variation)
=methodology used by anti-vaxx
sciencemag.org/news/2017/04/f…
for "after" on something as highly variable as menses, w/ deliberate inclusion of perimenopause (known menstrual variation)
=methodology used by anti-vaxx
sciencemag.org/news/2017/04/f…
If you study #vaccine + #sideeffect... you automatically cross into #healthcare & #medicine regardless of what other label applied
I'm a #vaccineswork #vaccinessavelives #pediatrician & #tweetiatrician careful on #data #quality particularly for women, WOC, POC
This is my lane
I'm a #vaccineswork #vaccinessavelives #pediatrician & #tweetiatrician careful on #data #quality particularly for women, WOC, POC
This is my lane
Every seeming kind of "not a big deal" thing related to #vaccineswork blows up in our faces like death threats via online mobs against #pediatrician #SciComm
May seem extreme but take a look at the escalation of responses to my identifying "bad #data"
medpagetoday.com/special-report…
May seem extreme but take a look at the escalation of responses to my identifying "bad #data"
medpagetoday.com/special-report…
We can't wait for yet more false "vaccines affect (THEY DO NOT) fertility" trope to circulate
anyone who is generating data on #vaccine "#sideeffects" needs to think about clean, quality, meaningful data. Junk data: common, but this actually matters
healthline.com/health-news/no…
anyone who is generating data on #vaccine "#sideeffects" needs to think about clean, quality, meaningful data. Junk data: common, but this actually matters
healthline.com/health-news/no…
Peak Twitter. Woman w/ stage 4 #endometriosis, #fibroids, latter condition more common in WOC, post 2 gyn surgeries
identifies online #womenshealth #vaccine #survey as poor #data #quality
instead of improving, response ~ "not to attack... but am glad you are not my doctor"
identifies online #womenshealth #vaccine #survey as poor #data #quality
instead of improving, response ~ "not to attack... but am glad you are not my doctor"
Indeed, I engage patients & families 1:1 without forcing them into fields I've pre-created for my #data collection, based on assumptions I have from personal experience
Respecting women & WOC allows people to not be forced into leading questions or pre-created fields
Respecting women & WOC allows people to not be forced into leading questions or pre-created fields
Measuring needs to be #quality to deliver quality. Your #results will never be better than your #studydesign or collection methods. Wrote this cuz we need less measurement & more humanity. I'm in b-school & everyone sends a new survey every 30 sec..
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…
Thread on #PeriodLeave ~
Here's what I learnt from my research while drafting the Private Member's Bill on "Right to Menstrual Hygiene and Paid Leave Bill, 2019."
[PMB to be introduced in the Lok Sabha by @Jothims, MP]
Besides empathy, sharing this: 🧵 (1/n)
Here's what I learnt from my research while drafting the Private Member's Bill on "Right to Menstrual Hygiene and Paid Leave Bill, 2019."
[PMB to be introduced in the Lok Sabha by @Jothims, MP]
Besides empathy, sharing this: 🧵 (1/n)
P.S.: I'm aware of "no uterus, no opinion", so I'll be focusing on the nuances of the topic (from my limited knowledge & gathering of various inputs) rather than participating in the debate. #MenstrualLeave
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It is important to note that the 1st such legislation on menstruation benefits in India was proposed by former LS MP @ninong_erring (INC) in 2018, which provided for 4 days of paid leave.
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Most ladies do not know how to calculate their Period, Ovulation, Safe and Unsafe period.
Who's ready for a thread?
Retweet and tag someone.
Someone needs it ✌🏼✌🏼
Who's ready for a thread?
Retweet and tag someone.
Someone needs it ✌🏼✌🏼
FACT
It's nt very likely, bt if u have sex without using contraception, u can get pregnant at any time during ur menstrual cycle, even during or just after ur period
U can also get preg if u hav never;
-Had a period before
During ur first period or
-After your first sex
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It's nt very likely, bt if u have sex without using contraception, u can get pregnant at any time during ur menstrual cycle, even during or just after ur period
U can also get preg if u hav never;
-Had a period before
During ur first period or
-After your first sex
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Having established the fact above, lets dig in. We will be guided by the "normal" cycle which is 28 days.
-First day of the flow will be regarded as day ONE,🩸
-And the day before your next period starts is day 28. It is the last day of the 28 days cycle.
#MenstrualHealth
-First day of the flow will be regarded as day ONE,🩸
-And the day before your next period starts is day 28. It is the last day of the 28 days cycle.
#MenstrualHealth
Menstruation is a natural process, but can be challenging for millions of women worldwide. My new paper in Global Public Health explores the role of caste/ethnicity in #menstrual knowledge and practices in Nepal. Join me in a thread... bit.ly/2JiuLjt #MenstruationMatters
First, I want to credit my fantastic co-authors: Jessica G. Burke (@jessgrifburke) of @PittPubHealth and Pema Lhaki of @nfccint.
Nepal is a geographically small yet diverse country of 125 caste/ethnic groups. Given the complexities of caste/ethnic roles and beliefs in the country, understanding how they impact menstrual health is critical.
