CRAMPED
By Kate Helen Downey
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Subscribers: 44
Reviews: 2
Episodes: 60
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
Tired of suffering from "death cramps" for 20 years, Kate Helen Downey has to find her own answers. She interviews top doctors and researchers, and delves into topics from period poops to endometriosis surgery 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.
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Your Uterus Sends a Monthly Report. Someone's Finally Reading It! w/ Ridhi Tariyal
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Sep 22, 2026 |
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Introducing Let's Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa
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Sep 22, 2026 |
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The GYRL Lab is Doing The Viagra For Cramps Follow-Up Study!
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Sep 15, 2026 |
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The Personal Finances of Period Pain w Tori Dunlap
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Sep 08, 2026 |
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Are There Heavy Metals in Our Tampons, and Is That...OK?
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Aug 27, 2026 |
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New Non-Invasive Tests for Endometriosis w Dr. Gail Busby
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Aug 18, 2026 |
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FIBROIDS: Everything You Need To Know
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Aug 11, 2026 |
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Unladylike: Where Does Perimenopause End and Capitalism Begin?
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Aug 04, 2026 |
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The Impact of Endometriosis on Male Partners Study, w/ Comedian Jenny Zigrino
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Jul 28, 2026 |
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The HER Agenda: Three Bills About Period Pain, w/ Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari
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Jul 21, 2026 |
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What If My Healthiest Self Isn't My Thinnest Self?
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Jul 14, 2026 |
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Melasma, Drugs That Delay Menopause, and Girl Gone Wild with Courtney Kocak
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Jul 07, 2026 |
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Forgetting Everything I've Learned: Acupuncture, Fertility, and the Sunk Cost Fallacy
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Jun 30, 2026 |
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The Pain Scale Is Useless and Everybody Knows It
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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The Comorbidity Queen: EDS, POTS, Endo, Fibroids, Cysts, SIBO, Arthritis, and more!
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Jun 16, 2026 |
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The Endo Attractiveness Study: Are You F**king Kidding Me??
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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Can Capitalism Fix What the Healthcare System Broke? One Endo App Founder Is Trying
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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What Does Tinnitus Have To Do With Your Hormones? An Audiologist Explains
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May 27, 2026 |
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Using AI To Help Get To A Diagnosis
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May 12, 2026 |
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Your Period Blood Has a Weird Origin Story: Spiral Arteries, Uterine Milk, and Monkey Eyeballs
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May 08, 2026 |
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PMDD, Intrusive Thoughts, Hormones & Medication: Riven's Diagnosis Story
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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Sex Ed with DB: Testosterone, Pleasure, and the Libido Myth
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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The Boner Pill That Might Cure Period Pain
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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Taking No Shit From Her Endo Specialist: Daphne's Diagnosis Story
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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How To Spot A Garbage Period Pain Study with Prof Jones-Rooy
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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An Endometriosis Historian Breaks Down 2000 Years of Medical Misogyny
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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Can Talking About Cramps Improve Your Sex Life?
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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Period Pain in Fiction: Two Artists Who Turned Their Diagnosis Into Art
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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Menstrual Leave Is Already Happening in More Places Than You Think
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Endometriosis, Hysterectomies, and Rebellious Ovaries: A Trans Comedian's Surgery Saga
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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Has Period Pain Education Gotten Better for Teens? We Asked a High Schooler
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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Sasheer Zamata Doesn't Want To Ride a Horse on her Period
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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Diet, Exercise, and Period Pain: What You Might Be Missing
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Is Period Pain All In Our Heads? A Pain Psychologist Explains What's Actually Happening
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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The State of Period Pain Research and Treatment in 2025: A Year in Review
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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Could Your Menstrual Cup Diagnose Endometriosis? Scientists Are Working On It
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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Recurring UTIs, BV, and Yeast Infections: The Vaginal Microbiome
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Patient Advocacy Actually Changed OB-GYN Education - How Tight Lipped Did It
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Why It's So Hard to Talk About Period Pain & How to Start
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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Pelvic Floor PT for Period Pain & Why You're Probably Peeing Wrong
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Endometriosis Excision Surgery: What the Day of Surgery and 6-Week Recovery Actually Look Like
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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I Got Endo Surgery: The Imaging Results & Costs
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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What Actually Happens to Your Body When You Go Off Hormonal Birth Control
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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80% of People With a Uterus Will Get Fibroids - Why Don't We Know Why?
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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Is Tracking Your Period with an App Actually Cycle Tracking? (Probably Not)
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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Endo's Last Stand - Surgery & Spitefulness
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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Ovarian Cysts: Why Doctors Keep Calling Them "Normal" and What That Misses
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Your Questions Answered: Why Do My Cramps Change Every Month? What Does 'Normal' Labs Actually Mean? The MTHFR Gene?
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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CRAMPED is back: Season 1.5
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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The Evolutionary Reason We Get Periods, And What It Explains About the Pain
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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Why Is There No Period Pain On The Internet (or TV, or Movies)?
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Feminists in the '70s Knew More About Their Bodies Than We Do Now. What Happened?
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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Medical Trauma from Period Pain Is Real. Here's What It Actually Looks Like
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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I Got a Diagnosis! Now What?
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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How Do I Balance My Hormones?
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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Inside the Lab Actually Trying to Cure Period Pain
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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We Don't Know How Many People Have Severe Period Pain, And That's a Problem
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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Why the ER Often Doesn't Help With Period Pain
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Death Cramps: Is This Normal?
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Introducing Cramped
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Nov 04, 2024 |