Dr. Jen Gunter

whether that is uniquely in menopause or not i'm not really sure people get dismissed all the time they're told that it's because they're overweight they're you know people have heart attacks dismissed they couldn't possibly because they don't have the standard symptoms um so i i think that this is a pervasive issue for for women in health care first of all i think that a lot of people have

less clinical experience with menopause.

And so is that magnified?

I think that's absolutely a possibility.

Um, so, but you know, I mean, I see people with chronic itching.

That's another one of my specialties.

And I mean, I would say that lots of people get dismissed with their chronic itch.

Oh, it's not that bad.

I'm telling you chronic itch is awful.

Well, eczema, obviously you can get that.

Like in simplex chronicus, which is basically the other word for that.

Like in sclerosis, for women in menopause, it can actually be related to low estrogen.

Chronic yeast infections, how they look in the skin can be different than how they look in the vagina.

And then there are also some less, you know, less common skin conditions.

People get psoriasis on their vulva.

But I think a lot of times people, you know, just think they need to put up with their itch.

So, you know, so it's always, you know,

because we don't say well how disadvantaged are people with itch versus how does it's hard to be specific and we all know our own fields better um i'm there's lots of women with nausea and vomiting and pregnancy who've i've been dismissed and so i think that it's a global problem i think that and again because a lot of people you know don't have i think menopause is a double hit because you've got women and you have aging

And so you have these sort of two things together that are often dismissed.

And who's the most invisible person in the room?