Award Winning Gynecological Health Company Daye launches world’s first virtual period pain clinic with the goal of helping women and women assigned at birth (AFAB) identify the cause of their menstrual pain and easily access diagnostic information to help them properly manage their symptoms.
Nine out of ten women experience menstrual cramps, and researchers at University College London (UCL) have shown that menstrual cramps can be as painful as a heart attack. Despite this, many of these women suffer in silence, with 57% saying that menstrual cramps have affected their ability to work.
Day claims menstrual pain is a serious health problem and that the chronically ill need care, support and faster access to effective medical interventions.
In collaboration with general practitioners, gynecologists and chronic pelvic pain specialists from the National Health Service, this women-founded startup has developed a groundbreaking new service called the Menstrual Pain Clinic (PPC) to help women understand and treat menstrual pain in an easy and accessible way. The new service provides a comprehensive assessment of a patient’s symptoms and offers private consultations with a range of professionals such as sexual health nurses, gynecologists, pelvic pain and infertility specialists, nutritionists, dermatologists, breathing coaches, acupuncturists, and more.
These carefully vetted healthcare professionals can provide faster diagnosis of the underlying cause of menstrual cramps and conditions such as endometriosis, adenomyosis, PCOS, fibroids, and other conditions associated with chronic pelvic pain. They can also treat other related and largely uncontrollable symptoms such as infertility, hair loss, obesity, and severe acne.
He also recommends symptom management tools for which there is clinical evidence. Examples of recommended interventions would be prescribed CBD (cannabidiol) tampons, TENS machines, pelvic floor muscle trainers, acupuncture, hormonal contraceptives, and more. Daye is partnering with pioneering pain management companies like Myoovi to help women get discounts on recommended products..
“Changing the way menstrual pain is diagnosed and treated is very important as it can currently take seven to ten years for patients to get answers and treatment. It is disappointing that women are diagnosed 700 diseases later than men. In addition, patients can lose up to £40,000 as a result of long attempts to cope with their pain and get a diagnosis,” explains Valentina Milanova, founder of Daye.
Given her personal experience with severe menstrual pain and having heard stories of debilitating menstrual symptoms from thousands of members of the Daye community, Milanova believes the time has come to combat chronic pain with modern measures. “Our proprietary algorithms and virtual consultations ensure that AFAB women and individuals have access to convenient, affordable and personalized care. This launch marks an important milestone in the advancement of methods for diagnosing and treating gynecological diseases, and a significant step towards not only rethinking the menstruation narrative, but also empowering millions of women and individuals with AFAB to better understand, manage and solve problems. status quo that surrounds his monthly pain.”
“Women and people with AFAB may not look for the cause of their menstrual pain for years, accepting it as an inevitable feature of their monthly cycle. However, menstrual cramps can be caused by a number of serious conditionssuch as endometriosis and polycystic ovary syndrome, which can cause further complications if left untreated.
“Through our virtual platform, patients will receive ongoing support, education and access to resources, strengthening the sense of community and empowering people affected by these chronic conditions. I am very proud of the new service, which will allow us to fulfill our mission to reduce the gender gap in medical research and innovation and raise the bar in the provision of gynecological care,” concludes Milanova.