UK Women’s pain is overlooked and undertreated – we need to start approaching it differently

Women with chronic pain wait longer for diagnosis, are more likely to be told their symptoms are psychological, and are significantly underrepresented in the clinical research that informs treatment decisions. Dr Wendy Holden, Consultant Rheumatologist at Curaleaf Clinic, looks at the pattern running through conditions like fibromyalgia, endometriosis and chronic widespread pain, why women's pain is so routinely dismissed, what the funding gap has cost a generation of patients, and where medical cannabis fits into a treatment landscape that has too often failed them.

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