Elyse Chantal
Jul 10, 2017 · 1 min read

This study and the reporting on this study does not adequately address the issue of chronic pain, specifically chronic pelvic pain in women which is the step that occurs between trauma and oophorectomies. Plenty of studies have shown that trauma increases risk for auto-immune disease and chronic pain. How that pain is treated is a separate issue that has more to do with patient education, access to treatment and our current understanding of how and why chronic pain and auto-immune disease occur. The number of women with non-cancer related oophorectomies is probably a better indicator of our lack of knowledge on how to treat chronic pelvic pain and less about a direct correlation between trauma and a women’s decision to choose an oophorectomy. Suggesting that women in pain need to go to the psychiatrist before they make a difficult decision just reinforces dangerous stigmas about women’s pain being in their head.

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