{"id":54765,"date":"2023-05-01T14:00:27","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T05:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/may\/01\/indias-taboos-around-womens-pain-leave-endometriosis-sufferers-in-agony-acc"},"modified":"2023-05-01T14:00:27","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T05:00:27","slug":"hell-on-earth-indias-taboos-around-womens-pain-leave-endometriosis-sufferers-in-agony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54765","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hell on earth\u2019: India\u2019s taboos around women\u2019s pain leave endometriosis sufferers in agony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the pain of the condition, diagnoses take seven years on average globally. In India, where 42 million women have the disease, cultural stigmas can make the delay even longer<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Hell-on-earth excruciating pain,\u201d is how Ruhi Singh* describes her experience of endometriosis. Yet it took nearly 20 doctors more than 10 years for her to get a diagnosis. \u201cI got an ultrasound every month where they told me it was all clear and I should \u2018do yoga\u2019 or \u2018get pregnant\u2019,\u201d says Singh. \u201cI have a bone to pick with all of those doctors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her experience is not unusual. Globally, it takes seven years on average to get a diagnosis, even though endometriosis is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcn.org.uk\/-\/media\/royal-college-of-nursing\/documents\/publications\/2015\/march\/pub-004777.pdf\">as common as diabetes<\/a>, affecting one in 10 women.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/may\/01\/indias-taboos-around-womens-pain-leave-endometriosis-sufferers-in-agony-acc\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the pain of the condition, diagnoses take seven years on average globally. In India, where 42 million women have the disease, cultural stigmas can make the delay even longer\u2018Hell-on-earth excruciating pain,\u201d is how Ruhi Singh* describes her exp&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1154,59,566,346,62,78,984,79,61,281,1792,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doctors","category-global-development","category-global-health","category-health","category-india","category-life-and-style","category-menstruation","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-women","category-womens-health","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54766,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54765\/revisions\/54766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}