CRAMPED

By Kate Downey

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Category: Health & Fitness

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Subscribers: 41
Reviews: 2
Episodes: 46

z
 Jun 1, 2025
great show, really interesting questions. i appreciate someone bringing light to this. also the theme song is a bop

former cramper
 Mar 18, 2025
Eye opening. If you have ever had menstrual cramps, know somebody who does, or just care about the half of the population who menstruate, give a listen.

Description

One nerd’s quest to find out why we know next to nothing about period pain. Tired of suffering from "death cramps" with no diagnosis for 20 years, Kate Downey has to look for her own answers. She interviews top doctors and researchers, and delves into topics from Greek history to sitcoms to TikTok wellness scams, all to figure out why menstrual pain is so often dismissed and untreated. What she finds will change how you think about your own body and the medical system. Because having a microphone gets you more answers than having a uterus. Season 1 launches weekly episodes starting February 2025.

Episode Date
The Comorbidity Queen: EDS, POTS, Endo, Fibroids, Cysts, SIBO, Arthritis, and more!
Jun 16, 2026
The Endo Attractiveness Study: Are You F**king Kidding Me??
Jun 09, 2026
Can Capitalism Fix What the Healthcare System Broke? One Endo App Founder Is Trying
Jun 02, 2026
What Does Tinnitus Have To Do With Your Hormones? An Audiologist Explains
May 27, 2026
Using AI To Help Get To A Diagnosis
May 12, 2026
Your Period Blood Has a Weird Origin Story: Spiral Arteries, Uterine Milk, and Monkey Eyeballs
May 08, 2026
PMDD, Intrusive Thoughts, Hormones & Medication: Riven's Diagnosis Story
Apr 28, 2026
Sex Ed with DB: Testosterone, Pleasure, and the Libido Myth
Apr 21, 2026
The Boner Pill That Might Cure Period Pain
Apr 14, 2026
Taking No Shit From Her Endo Specialist: Daphne's Diagnosis Story
Apr 08, 2026
How To Spot A Garbage Period Pain Study with Prof Jones-Rooy
Apr 02, 2026
An Endometriosis Historian Breaks Down 2000 Years of Medical Misogyny
Mar 24, 2026
Can Talking About Cramps Improve Your Sex Life?
Mar 17, 2026
Period Pain in Fiction: Two Artists Who Turned Their Diagnosis Into Art
Mar 10, 2026
Menstrual Leave Is Already Happening in More Places Than You Think
Mar 03, 2026
Endometriosis, Hysterectomies, and Rebellious Ovaries: A Trans Comedian's Surgery Saga
Feb 17, 2026
Has Period Pain Education Gotten Better for Teens? We Asked a High Schooler
Feb 11, 2026
Sasheer Zamata Doesn't Want To Ride a Horse on her Period
Feb 03, 2026
Diet, Exercise, and Period Pain: What You Might Be Missing
Jan 27, 2026
Is Period Pain All In Our Heads? A Pain Psychologist Explains What's Actually Happening
Jan 13, 2026
The State of Period Pain Research and Treatment in 2025: A Year in Review
Dec 11, 2025
Could Your Menstrual Cup Diagnose Endometriosis? Scientists Are Working On It
Nov 04, 2025
Recurring UTIs, BV, and Yeast Infections: What Your Vaginal Microbiome Has to Do With All of It
Oct 21, 2025
Patient Advocacy Actually Changed OB-GYN Education - How Tight Lipped Did It
Sep 30, 2025
Why It's So Hard to Talk About Period Pain & How to Start
Sep 16, 2025
Pelvic Floor PT for Period Pain & Why You're Probably Peeing Wrong
Sep 04, 2025
Endometriosis Excision Surgery: What the Day of Surgery and 6-Week Recovery Actually Look Like
Aug 07, 2025
I Got Endo Surgery: The Imaging Results & Costs
Jul 29, 2025
What Actually Happens to Your Body When You Go Off Hormonal Birth Control
Jul 22, 2025
80% of People With a Uterus Will Get Fibroids - Why Don't We Know Why?
Jul 15, 2025
Is Tracking Your Period App Actually Cycle Tracking? (Probably Not)
Jul 11, 2025
Endo's Last Stand - Surgery & Spitefulness
Jul 03, 2025
Ovarian Cysts: Why Doctors Keep Calling Them "Normal" and What That Misses
Jun 26, 2025
Your Questions Answered: Why Do My Cramps Change Every Month? What Does 'Normal' Labs Actually Mean? The MTHFR Gene?
Jun 18, 2025
CRAMPED is back: Season 1.5
Jun 11, 2025
The Evolutionary Reason We Get Periods, And What It Explains About the Pain
Apr 08, 2025
Why Is There No Period Pain On The Internet (or TV, or Movies)?
Apr 01, 2025
Feminists in the '70s Knew More About Their Bodies Than We Do Now. What Happened?
Mar 25, 2025
Medical Trauma from Period Pain Is Real. Here's What It Actually Looks Like
Mar 18, 2025
I Got a Diagnosis! Now What?
Mar 11, 2025
How Do I Balance My Hormones?
Mar 04, 2025
Inside the Lab Actually Trying to Cure Period Pain
Feb 25, 2025
We Don't Know How Many People Have Severe Period Pain, And That's a Problem
Feb 18, 2025
Why the ER Often Doesn't Help With Period Pain
Feb 11, 2025
Death Cramps: Is This Normal?
Feb 04, 2025
Introducing Cramped
Nov 04, 2024