Watch: Naga Munchetty criticizes medical misogyny after suffering from “extreme pain”
Naga Munchetty spoke of the “extreme pain” that she endured for decades due to a state of health, saying that her pain was rejected for years.
The BBC breakfast presenter Revealed in 2023 that it suffers from adenomyosis, a condition in which the lining of the uterus develops in the muscular wall of the uterus. The state can cause extremely heavy menstrual bleeding, pain at severe period and chronic pelvic discomfort.
It took 32 years in Munchetty, now 50, to receive a diagnosis.
Appearing on Lorraine today, Munchetty explained that his new book, It's probably nothingExplore medical misogyny and the systemic failure of doctors to take seriously the symptoms of women. Something she has a first -hand experience.
“The book is almost like a manual,” she told the host Christine Lampard, who filled Lorraine Kelly. “I mean, he was born from the fact that I experienced medical misogyny and be ignored – my symptoms have been ignored.
“But it's not about me, you will be happy to know. It's like someone who understands what it does to be said:” No, it's nothing, it's probably nothing. Oh, you will grow up.
“And simply speaking of dozens of men and women about their experiences of being ignored and thinking:” There is something here, there is something that the medical world does not listen to. “That it is not enough of research, that it is not enough education and not enough time to listen and not hear, not hear when someone says:” I am not facing. “
The BBC breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty appeared on Lorraine to discuss her adenomyosis of the uterus condition and the extreme pain she causes. (ITV)
Munchetty thought about the trauma of its start -up rules and the awareness that something was not good.
“(I was) doubled with pain, vomiting, vigoring, cramps, vanishing again and again, and really heavy periods, to the point where I would put an alarm at night to change my time product,” she said.
“(I slept) on a towel, lying on the ground, because if I was uncomfortable on the ground, then it might harm pain.”
Despite the severity of his symptoms, Munchetty says that doctors have repeatedly rejected her concerns, often telling her that she was “leaving”. It was only when a scan revealed a cyst on its ovaries that doctors have studied more.
Finally, it was diagnosed with adenomyosis, which it describes as the “evil twin” of endometriosis.
Munchetty says she is far from alone in her experience. “I think we all know women who have been said:” It is probably nothing “, and who was told” that other women are struggling, it's normal, you should also “”, she continues.
“And you spend a lot of time thinking:” Is it me? Am I really weak? Am I simply as a woman? Am I not like other women who only live life? “Because we are not talking about it enough, we are not talking enough about these symptoms and not enough research put there.”
According to The guardianHealth experts are now calling for more British clinical trials to focus on women's health. Alarming data reveal that women remain considerably underrepresented, with an amazing 67% of more male studies than women only.
Munchetty adds: “I think that when you spend years and years telling you that it is nothing, you find very different adaptation mechanisms. And now, when I look back and I think:” Okay, this diagnosis has come, we all try to be the best possible “, I was prevented from being the best possible.
“I talked to so many women who say to me:” I no longer work because I have such a bad endometriosis and pain and it cannot be healed, and that nobody listens to me “or” I have such bad uses that I cannot sit for more than 20 minutes, and it has been recurrent for nine years “.” “”
Munchetty encourages women to put pressure for a diagnosis and treatment if they suspect that something is wrong.
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