I've read plenty of specific papers on the subject of menstrual cycles and effects of hormones and, in short, well, you're kinda full of shit. I don't think you know what a menstrual cycle or hormones actually are, and I don't think you've read tons and tons of studies on how hormones affect our bodies. Because you're just kind of explaining being a person. Those are the things that hormones affect for everyone, every day. And women do not have more of them than men.
I wish they had those same ethics with my first birth control when I was hospitalized with severe depression. I wasn't even told it was a side effect. Ten years later there was a class action lawsuit and it was discontinued.
Considering men default humans and women an "other," is the exact bias that has held back medical care for half the fucking population.
Everyone's hormones are always in flux, every day. Eating food can drastically affect your hormones. Aerobic excercise can affect your hormones. Men have hormonal cycles as well.
What you wrote here about costs associated with medical research on women seems paraphrased from some out-of-date medical journal. Unless menstrual cycles are being studied, you do not "have to do all kinds of correction and analyses" to make sure they're not affecting that study. I have no idea where you heard that, and would go as far as to say you just made it up. I don't even know where to begin with the pregnancy test thing, unless you're thinking of only medical trials, specifically.
It was one of the worst pains I've ever experienced and they gave me mother fucking tylenol.
I got the IUD after twelve years of trying to convince doctors my cramps were unusually bad, and being prescribed mother fucking tylenol, for what I later learned were "muscle spasms similar to labor," every. single. month.
The IUD helped! If you have the same, ask about a Mirena and bring a flask of something strong. Like opium.
I've read plenty of specific papers on the subject of menstrual cycles and effects of hormones and, in short, well, you're kinda full of shit. I don't think you know what a menstrual cycle or hormones actually are, and I don't think you've read tons and tons of studies on how hormones affect our bodies. Because you're just kind of explaining being a person. Those are the things that hormones affect for everyone, every day. And women do not have more of them than men.