“Why Didn’t Anyone Tell Me This Before?”: 5 Common Myths About The Female Pelvic Floor
By Stephanie Brown, PT If only I had a dollar for every time someone said to me “Why didn’t anyone tell me this before?” or “I wish I had known this earlier”. I hear comments like this daily so I thought it was time to bust some common myths about ...
Surviving Pelvic Exams as a Survivor
By Alisha Olsthoorn, 3rd year ObGyn Resident, University of Toronto Sexual assault. We know it’s common. According to surveys, one in three women will experience some form of sexual assault in their lifetime. A staggering 80 percent of women with ...
Fibroids – What you need to know
About one-third of Canadian womxn will develop uterine fibroids by the age of 30. The number climbs to seven out of 10 by the time womxn reach 50. These benign (non-cancerous) tumors grow in the uterus, or off of the uterus on stalks within the pelvic ca ...
Choosing to be child-free
When it comes to choosing a form of contraception that suits our needs, for most women it’s a case of trial and error. Using the birth control pill can be tricky to remember to take at the same time every day, and gives some women intolerable s ...
Post-partum depression
by Dr. Tanya Tulipan, PsychiatristReproductive Mental Health Services, IWK Health Centre, Halifax Post-partum Depression (PPD) is the most common medical complication of pregnancy. About one in nine womxn will experience PPD, a condition so common th ...
6 Reasons Your Vagina Hurts
Experiencing pain during intercourse is very common. Nearly three quarters of womxn have pain during intercourse - medically termed dyspareunia - at some time during their lives. For some womxn, the pain is only a temporary problem; for others, it is a l ...
Multiple Sclerosis in Women
It was a diagnosis seven years in the making. Ever since the birth of her son in 2011, 46-year-old actress Selma Blair says that she had been experiencing a variety of neurological oddities. She sought help from a number of different doctors, b ...
It’s Time to Listen
Welcome! Thank you for finding your way to our blog. Come sit down, grab some tea, get comfy. There is a lot we need to discuss. Today, the I Hear You web series began filming in Halifax, Nova Scotia. This medical drama is a film project by ...