Men's issues and why some are taken more seriously than others

[Guest guest]

As for the commercials about ED that didn't always used to be

the case. That was a door that was as tightly shut as the

public discussion about prostate cancer sometimes still is even

now. The reason it was such a situation where the door was shut

was because of it being taboo.

But they will never be open to talking about prostatodynia or

scrotodynia (the male versions of vulvodynia) on television

because of it being taboo and also most men don't like to talk

about this subject. This is why when we had a gentleman come to

this list a couple years ago he told us that he had to come to

us for help because he couldn't find support groups online for

his problem because it's not something that is talked about by

men.

Men who have scrotodynia and prostatodynia are made to feel like

they are joking as well. Same with some of the men who have

Interstitial Cystitis because there are still doctors that

believe that IC is mostly a " woman's " disease which is not the

case.

Male breast cancer isn't taken as seriously as it should be

either because again a lot of people think that breast cancer is

mainly a " woman's disease " . And the men who have this are

thought of as jokesters as well and this is a real serious

problem.

Some people think that if men had the problems we do that the

world would be a different place in getting answers to these

problems and that is such wrong thinking. There are many men

that have problems that are treated just as badly as we are when

we try to get help, yes, some of them being told that it's in

their head when the problem is real.

Kristy

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