This week is #FertilityWeek & today is #MentalMatters day. Here are some nuggets I've received from anonymous responses to my questionnaire about the emotional experience of infertility, to the Q 'What advice would you give to anyone suffering infertility?'

#YouAreNotAlone "Find people you confide in. Look for fertility support groups - local or online. There are more people out there going through this than you think. You don’t need to go through it alone."
~Anon

#MentalMatters #YouAreNotAlone #FertilityWeek

Part 2 of a thread about women's healthcare gaslighting & inadequate care. There are some sex-based differences between how women & men experience pain, which may be driven by differences in sex hormones, endogenous opioid function & genetic factors.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… So the fact that women may experience pain differently a physiological level because of their sex makes it even *more* disgusting that gender bias results in such inadequate medical care for women

Great article highlighting the barbaric practice of women being subjected to invasive & painful hysterocopies (that's filling the uterus with saline, sticking a camera into the uterus) without anaesthetic or pain relief in the NHS broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/… I’ve had two hysteroscopies, both related to my miscarriages, both thankfully done under general anaesthetic. I was also given a local when I had a cervical punch biopsy, & gritted my teeth when I had multiple endometrial biopsies. None were fun, but thankfully not excruciating