"Many women get their advice from their OB-GYNS, but Cleary is not a huge fan of the way OB-GYNs are trained, believing their expertise too diffuse. “They may deliver a baby on Monday, do a fibroid surgery on Tuesday, and then a hysterectomy on Thursday. There’s no other specialty like that,” she says.
LaToya experienced that level of frustration with her OB-GYN, whose focus seemed to be primarily on pregnant women. “I wish she would’ve admitted that [fibroids were] outside of her specialty.”
She eventually did her own research to find a fibroid specialist, who insisted LaToya immediately get blood transfusions, iron infusions, medications, and eventually surgery, as her fibroid was not a watch-and-wait situation after all. “We needed to get it out,” LaToya says...
In a world that treats almost all vaginal bleeding as menstruation-related (and even just women being hysterical), Cleary encourages those with such conditions as endometriosis, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), interstitial cystitis, and the like to talk to their care providers “not in gynecological terms, but organ dysfunction, pain, blood loss, and anemia,” because that’s what it takes to be treated seriously."
https://medium.com/s/hysterical-women-and-medicine/ignorance-about-menstruation-puts-womens-health-at-risk-28dd36670d94
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