Chronicpain affects an estimated 100 million Americans, more than the total number who have been diagnosed with diabetes, cancer & heart disease combined. And most people living with chronic pain are women. Yet women experience many barriers to care:
Most people living with chronic pain are women, with an estimated 50 million or more women than men affected. Women are particularly vulnerable given the number of pain-related conditions thatoccur in women, such as endometriosis and vulvodynia, among others. But they are also significantly more likely than men to experience other pain-related conditions, including chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, temporomandibular disorders, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and migraine.
Women also respond differently to pain and pain medications than men. For instance, studies find that women get greater pain relief from opioids than men but experience more side effects. Women also appear to process pain in the central nervous system differently than men. Despite overwhelming evidence of these sex-related differences when it comes to chronic pain experience and treatment, this knowledge has yet to be integrated into clinical practice or fully acknowledged in clinical trials or even by basic research.
Read expert perspectives on barriers faced by women with chronic pain and recommendations for overcoming obstacles to care.
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