Dr. Vonda Wright
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We are supposed to be curious people, but yet when it comes to this, why do we stop at just seems to be something that happens to middle-aged women, right?
That's written in the orthopedic literature, seems to happen to middle-aged women.
Where's the curiosity, right?
And they come to me almost to a woman.
after I'm talking about whatever musculoskeletal thing, they'll say, even before they want to describe it to me, they'll say, but you know, I have a really high pain tolerance.
Like it's a badge because we've been conditioned to not come for any pain, but I've suffered.
I've tried.
That's why your arm doesn't move anymore.
I've got such a high pain tolerance, but I couldn't take it anymore.
I didn't want to come.
And I feel like, why does it have to be that way?
I don't think I was aware of it.
Yeah.
There was just, that's.
So much bias.
Yeah.
I didn't realize.
I didn't either.
Because like you, until I went through my own perimenopause, I might not have paid attention to it.
Yeah.