Watch: Naga Muncheti criticizes medical misogynia after undergoing “exceptional pain”
Naga Muncheti talks about the “exceptional pain” she has last for decades due to his health, saying her pain has been rejected for years.
BBC’s breakfast revealed in 2023 that it suffers from adenomyosis, a condition in which the uterine mucosa grows into the muscular wall of the womb. The condition can cause extremely severe menstrual bleeding, severe pain in the period and chronic pelvic discomfort.
It took 32 years to make Munchetty, who is already 50 years old, to be diagnosed.
Appearing on Lorrene today, Muncheti explained that her new book is probably nothing, examining medical misogya and the systemic failure of doctors to take the symptoms of women seriously. Something she has first -hand experience.
“The book is almost like a guide,” she told the host Christine Lampard, who filled Lorraine Kelly. “I want to say that this was born of the fact that I have experienced medical misogynia and ignored myself – my symptoms are ignored.
“But it’s not about me, you’ll be glad to know. Just like someone who understands what it feels like to say,” No, nothing is, there is probably nothing. Oh, you will grow from him. Have a baby who will fix it. It will get better when you get old. “
“And just talking to dozens of men and women about their experience of ignoring and thinking:” There is something here, there is something that the medical world does not listen to. “Whether it is not enough research, be it not enough education and there is not enough time to listen and not to hear, not to hear when someone says,” I’m not doing it. ” So that’s it. “
BBC Naga Munchetty’s breakfast has appeared on Lorrene to discuss the condition of her womb the adenomiosis and the severe pain she causes. (ITV)
Muncheti thinks about the trauma of her period, and the realization that something is wrong.
“[I was] Doubling from pain, ejection, distribution, spasms, seizures again and again and really, really difficult periods, until I used an alarm at night to change my product for the period, “she says.
“[I was] Sleeping a towel lies on the floor, because if I was uncomfortable on the floor, then it might make it worse. “
Despite the severity of her symptoms, Muncheti says that doctors repeatedly reject her concerns, often told her that she “will grow from it.” Only when a scan revealed a cyst on their ovaries, doctors investigate further.
In the end, she is diagnosed with adenomyosis, which she describes as an “evil twin” of endometriosis.
Muncheti says she’s far from being alone in her experience. “I think we all know women who are said,” Probably nothing “and which is said” Other women are dealing with it, it’s normal, you should, “she continues.
“And you spend a long time thinking,” Am I? Am I really weak? I’m just not doing like a woman? Don’t I like the other women who just go on with life? “Since we are not talking about this enough, we are not talking about these symptoms enough and not sufficient studies in them.”
According to The Guardian, health experts are now calling for more clinical trials in the UK to focus on women’s health. Alarm data reveal that women remain significantly insufficiently represented, with a striking 67% more studies for men only than for women alone.
Munchetty adds: “I think when you spend years and years saying that this is nothing, you find many different mechanisms to deal with. And now, when I look back and I think,” Okay, this diagnosis comes, we all try to be the best I was prevented from being the best I could.
“I talked to so many women who are like,” I don’t work anymore because I have such a bad endometriosis and pain and it can’t be healed, and no one listens to me “or” I have so bad UTI that I can’t sit for more than 20 minutes and it’s repetitive nine years. “
Munchetty encourages women to insist on diagnosis and treatment if they suspect something is wrong.
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