This post about the medical community saying female specific health issues are “very common conditions” with “no known cause” or “no known cure” is very disheartening and sadly accurate. It’s even complete with someone angrily claiming that this is all made up. This thread about Trying to Get Diagnosed While Female is also very relevant reading.
A hysterectomy doesn’t “cure” you of endometriosis. I had to have full back in December of 22… and I am now on a estrogen patch so I don’t go through menopause. But this didn’t cure me…. i will have to have scans every couple years to make sure they got all of it. The surgery was necessary and the had to pull the scare tissue off of my bladder and rectum.
There are also acute one-off things which doctors also don’t know how they happen. I had to be rushed to an ER when I was 26 because of extreme abdominal pain, and after nine solid hours of testing they finally discovered it was something called ovarian torsion – basically, one of my own ovaries decided to do a triple axel inside my guts and it tangled itself up in everything else and cut off its own blood supply and it was dying. They rushed me into an ER to pull it out. I kept asking the surgeon and then my own regular doctor afterward “but what made this happen,” and all they could say is “beats the hell out of me.” My doctor even got her old medical textbook for us to look at together and it flat-out said that there wasn’t any clear cause.
And that thing HURTS, yo. Wil Wheaton’s wife Anne also had it some years back and
later said that it hurt worse than childbirth. (Anne Wheaton was treated way worse than I was – Wil blogs about here https://wilwheaton.net/2017/06/eighteen-hours/ )