In the Media: Period Pain is Real Pain – Women's Health Research Institute

Period Pain is Real Pain

The Period Pain is Real Pain campaign was co-developed by Zeba Khan, a WHRI member and UBC PhD student, in collaboration with youth lived experience of severe period pain, medical professionals (including gynecologists specializing in endometriosis, pelvic pain, and pediatric gynecology), and staff from the Women’s Health Research Institute.

The campaign aims to generate awareness that severe period pain is not normal. The Period Pain is Real Pain website, offers a range of resources on period pain, related conditions such as endometriosis, and pain relief strategies.

We encourage you to share the Period Pain is Real Pain website and resources with your community.

Follow the Period Pain is Real Pain media outputs below.

Media Coverage

CBC

This UBC-developed website educates youth on when period pain is too much

CBC: On the Coast Podcast

Period Pain is Real Pain

UBC Faculty of Medicine

When is period pain not normal? New website helps young people navigate when to seek care

UBC News

When is period pain not normal? New website helps young people navigate when to seek care

The Women’s Health Research Institute would like to acknowledge that we are uninvited guests on the unceded ancestral territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lo, and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-waututh) Nations.

As a provincial research institute committed to improving the health outcomes of women, including those across the 2SLGBTQIA+ spectrum, we recognize our responsibility in the collective effort towards establishing culturally safe health care systems and services that address health inequities among Indigenous peoples, especially Indigenous women, girls, and Two-spirit peoples.

We encourage all people involved in research to read both the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action and the In Plain Sight Report, and reflect on ways we can incorporate the recommendations into our work. As we gather in spaces together, we encourage you to reflect on your positionality on these lands and your personal commitments to reconciliation.

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