The Hidden Language of Menstruation and the Silence Around Black Women’s Pain
In every doctor’s office, there is a quiet vocabulary that determines how women’s pain is recorded, treated or dismissed.
Words like dysmenorrhea, menorrhagia and amenorrhea are not just medical jargon, they are signals, codes that unlock care or close the door to it. Yet who gets to use these words and who gets heard when they do, tells a bigger story about health inequity than most of us realise.
Understanding the Terminology
Behind each clinical term lies a lived reality, an experience that reaches far beyond a line in a medical textbook. These words describe the rhythms and disruptions that can shape a woman’s physical, emotional and professional life.
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