Doctors finally confirm period pain can be as painful as a heart attack

Men wait an average of 49 minutes before being treated for abdominal pain. For women, the wait is 65 minutes for the same symptoms.

I get the impression it's one of those things unless you've been there and done that, you really don't get it.

It’s a good question and I understand your points, but at the same time, I think that provisions should be made for women so that they can advance up the career ladder in the same way that men do.

Otherwise we’re penalised either way, because it’s as if we’re made to choose between having children or being treated equally in the workforce whereas men have the luxury of both.

All women on paid leave? That would be quite a bit of money down the drain when all women that work get a day off every month with pay. Note that the level of period pain varies among women, and you want all of them to leave?

Would they? My own personal experience tells me the opposite. I think most adults know that period pains can be excruciating and that heart attacks can be completely missed by the sufferer. I know a man who had what he thought was indigestion for four hours - it was a heart attack.

The most pain I have suffered came from bruising of the intercostal muscles, with no apparent cause!

It’d be a mockery of the capabilities of women if we all had paid leave a week every month. That’s as good as banishing women to huts when they’re on their periods.

Women who have pains so bad that they can’t function in daily life should have some kind of doctors note or disability allowance, it should be the exception not the rule.

most people would associate "painful" with "heart attack".

What is difficult to understand is why you chose a thread title which uses the word 'finally' and implies that doctors have only now become aware of this fact. They haven't. It has been known for a very long time indeed.

Now that you have lost your other argument,

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Eh? You believe that all heart attacks are painful, do you?

It’d be a mockery of the capabilities of women if we all had paid leave a week every month. That’s as good as banishing women to huts when they’re on their periods.

Women who have pains so bad that they can’t function in daily life should have some kind of doctors note or disability allowance, it should be the exception not the rule.

Believe it or not feminists have been successful in their pursuit of paid leave for women during periods in many countries around the globe. Many countries in this part of the world are discussing implementing this policy.

The funniest thing about it all is that feminists used to argue that periods were used as an excuse to keep women out of work and that periods did not effect a woman's ability to work in any way. Now they use the same argument to get women off work. This is the level of hypocrisy in feminism. Its got nothing to do with logic or fairness between women and men. Its all about money and power.

Nope, as a male doctor, I think I'm capable of understanding that period pains can be incredibly painful.

The thread title is utterly ludicrous though.

Obviously a period pain can be "more painful" than a heart attack. This is not something that is being "finally confirmed".

So we are reduced to universally following what the ignorant among us believe? By that logic we would not have MMR vaccines (or any other), would never wake sleepwalkers for fear of killing them with a heart attack and would make much greater use of homeopathy.

It actually says that a period pain can be “as painful as a heart attack”

Which is why women should get paid leave when they are on their periods. I feel like i’m dying when i’m on it. Horrible.