Annika Neklason

Sep 23, 2024 | thehill.com | Annika Neklason

Men and women don’t experience pain the same way. Give someone an electric shock; bind a tourniquet tighter and tighter around their leg; submerge their hand in icy water; prick them with a pin: Researchers have done it all, and they’ve found — across years and hundreds of studies — that the same stimuli provoke greater pain responses in women. Women, in other words, are more sensitive to pain than men.

Sep 23, 2024 | aol.com | Annika Neklason

September 24, 2024 at 5:00 AMMen and women don’t experience pain the same way. Give someone an electric shock; bind a tourniquet tighter and tighter around their leg; submerge their hand in icy water; prick them with a pin: Researchers have done it all, and they’ve found — across years and hundreds of studies — that the same stimuli provoke greater pain responses in women. Women, in other words, are more sensitive to pain than men.

Sep 22, 2024 | thehill.com | Annika Neklason

For 20 years, doctors told Diana Falzone her pain was normal. “Well, that’s just how it is for some women,” she remembers one saying after she began experiencing unusually heavy and “very, very painful” periods when she was 12 or 13. “Some women have it harder than others.”During another visit, she recalls rating the severity of her pain at a 10 on a 10-point scale. “You’re a 10?” the provider asked her.

May 28, 2024 | kron4.com | Annika Neklason

(The Hill) – Kimberly Turbin thought she was going to be a happy mom. “But that was snatched from me,” she says, the first time she gave birth. Up until then, “I had a perfect pregnancy. I didn’t have any nausea. Nothing was wrong with me,” she says. Her water broke while she was at her friend’s house, and she went home to shower before going to the hospital. Once there, she let the staff know she’d previously been raped and asked them to be communicative with her throughout her delivery.

Jun 15, 2023 | newsnationnow.com | Annika Neklason

(The Hill) — Vanessa Chapoy had just turned 24 when she felt the lump in her breast. It was “huge,” she remembers, “like the size of a walnut, or a big marble.” She went to the first in a series of doctors that night to have it checked out. Two and a half weeks later, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Stage two, she would learn. “And my whole world flipped upside down,” Chapoy says.