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Women suffer more pain than men across the whole body, major global study finds (www.theguardian.com)

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Researchers looked at pain around the world and across the human lifespan, finding steepest rise happens before age 55

Women report suffering more pain than men, a major new global study has found.

That was true for all types of pain the researchers measured, and comes amid continuing concern about the gender pain gap, which means women are less likely to be prescribed the pain relief they need.

Researchers from all over the world carried out “one of the largest harmonization efforts in pain epidemiology to date”. Data was collected from more than 6 million people from 118 countries from 1990 to 2025, and included people from five years old to more than 100.

The research, published in Nature Medicine, looked at how pain, as the leading global cause of disability, was distributed both around the world and across the human lifespan.

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[–] IamMoonPie@lemmy.world -2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Yeahhh no, just no. Women are treated so poorly by the medical system compared to men. I could go to ER with my husband to be seen for the exact same thing He’ll be:

Seen faster than me
Listened to instead of questioned
Given the appropriate tests
Leave with medication and follow ups.

I’ll be:

Forced to wait longer times
Questioned relentlessly (are you pregnant? nope, no longer have a uterus. We’re still gunna give you a pregnancy test because we don’t believe you).
Will not receive any tests outside of standard baseline tests.
Will leave with zero answers, no medication, no follow ups. Just a suggestion to drink more water and exercise.

So you men really have no room to complain about lack of reporting when its literally not even applicable to this situation.

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Counterpoint: This could be in part because men seek medical care less than women (source: https://www.icgi.org/do-men-go-to-the-doctor-less-than-women/#The_Data_A_Clear_Picture_of_Disparity), therefore when one does go the medical staff assumes it must be pretty serious, and this would reinforce that the self report study may not be accurate.

That said, it would still be extremely wrong for medical staff to assume that / downplay women who go because they're more likely to go, because then you'll be missing important cases in women, which may also explain why women have worse outcomes in medical care as well.

Overall the situation is shit because under the current system and culture it means men die more often from medical health issues and women die more from unnecessary malpractice and negligence.

[–] crapwittyname@feddit.uk 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Even so, this is a cultural question, not a healthcare one. While women are treated more poorly within the healthcare system, men are exposed, outside the healthcare system, to "man up", "suck it up", "boys don't cry" and a general attitude that admitting to pain is weakness and unmanly.
There may be an abundance of reporting; I would be willing to bet that male pain is better studied than female pain, because that usually seems to be the case (medical science ignoring female physiology to an almost comical degree). But, the point op was making is that the men in the studies are more likely to lie/downplay their pain because of the culture of toxic masculinity. It's one of the ways men are victims of the patriarchy too.