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Amy Milne
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Women's health has been whispered about for too long. On Down There Aware, host Amy Milne gets loud about everything below the belt—endometriosis, PCOS, menopause, pain, medical gaslighting, and the healthcare system's failure to listen. Amy interviews doctors, researchers, advocates, and real women sharing raw stories of misdiagnosis, survival, and resistance.  Don't expect polite conversation that makes light of women's health issues or brushes them off as "just how it is." The conversations are bold, honest, unapologetic, and real.  Whether you're in your own fight with the medical system, battling chronic pain, supporting someone who is, or ready to join a movement demanding better care, this is your space.  We're done with whispers. It's time to get loud.

  1. EPISODE 1

    Ep. 01: Amy's story & the birth of The Down There Affair

    Welcome to The Down There Aware Podcast with Amy Milne. In our first episode, Amy opens up about her deeply personal journey through three decades of undiagnosed endometriosis. From speaking up as a rebellious teenager to battling medical gaslighting as a young woman, Amy takes you through the misdiagnoses, the surgeries, the medications, and the moment a female doctor finally believed her. She shares how her tenacity led her to motherhood despite the odds, why she eventually chose a hysterectomy, and why she's now launching the Down There Affair—a radical fundraising walk in underwear—to demand better for women's below-the-belt health care. Key Components How early outspokenness became her superpower: Amy's refusal to be silenced as a teenager, though labeled "difficult," ultimately enabled her to advocate for herself when the medical system failed her.The power of one doctor who listened: When Dr. Vicki Davis believed Amy's story instead of dismissing it, everything changed—and led directly to her eventual path to motherhood.Why the "kids cures endo" myth is b******t: Amy challenges the outdated narrative that pregnancy ends endometriosis, sharing her continued pain journey after becoming a mother.The Down There Affair as activism: Amy's new fundraising movement and why women's below-the-belt health receives only 7 cents per healthcare dollar while Viagra comes in chewable form."For us to demand more and better care, we must put our money where the memes are. We must raise our own money because of the dollars raised in health care today we see about seven cents on the dollar go towards our health concerns. How is there a chewable—not just swallowable but chewable—Viagra, but no cure for endo?" 👉 Click here to join the movement at downthereaware.org 🩲 Subscribe, like, and share to show us you care! 🤘 Podcast produced by Binge-Worthy Studio

    26 min

  2. EPISODE 2

    Ep. 02: Natalie's story & a decade of "that's just how it is."

    In this episode of Down There Aware, Natalie Jeanson joins Amy to share her devastating 10-year journey of being dismissed by doctors despite meticulous self-documentation and persistent advocacy. Natalie opens up about dismissive allergic reactions to birth control, a traumatic IUD insertion, PCOS diagnosis, and the workplace discrimination that comes with invisible chronic pain. She talks about the healthcare system's refusal to listen even when she showed up with detailed symptom logs, why being told "it's just normal" destroyed her confidence, and how imposter syndrome almost kept her silent. A raw conversation about being forced to educate the system about your own body. Key Components How medical gaslighting starts in adolescence: Natalie's symptoms from age 13—heavy periods, cyclical pain outside her period, pain during exercise—were normalized and dismissed as "just how it is," setting the stage for years of suffering in silence.Doctors don't listen even when patients do the work for them: Despite meticulously logging every symptom, meal, and activity for months and presenting this evidence to doctors, Natalie was given an IUD instead of answers.How Natalie's workplace experience reveals how employers—and the healthcare system—don't acknowledge what they can't see, forcing her to fight for basic accommodations like wearing comfortable pants instead of following restrictive dress codes.Overcoming imposter syndrome to speak her truth: Natalie grapples with self-doubt despite being articulate and knowledgeable about her own body, showing how invalidation for years creates a silence many women experience even when desperate to be heard."The healthcare system tries to put you in boxes before you get that diagnosis that you need because they need to rule things out. But that process of putting you in boxes for five years just to get a diagnosis means you're suffering for five years with chronic pain." Connect with Natalie on Instagram: @natalie.raae @remmie.collective 👉 Click here to join the movement at downthereaware.org 🩲 Subscribe, like, and share to show us you care! 🤘 Podcast produced by Binge-Worthy Studio

    1h 18m
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Women's health has been whispered about for too long. On Down There Aware, host Amy Milne gets loud about everything below the belt—endometriosis, PCOS, menopause, pain, medical gaslighting, and the healthcare system's failure to listen. Amy interviews doctors, researchers, advocates, and real women sharing raw stories of misdiagnosis, survival, and resistance.  Don't expect polite conversation that makes light of women's health issues or brushes them off as "just how it is." The conversations are bold, honest, unapologetic, and real.  Whether you're in your own fight with the medical system, battling chronic pain, supporting someone who is, or ready to join a movement demanding better care, this is your space.  We're done with whispers. It's time to get loud.

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  • Creator
    Amy Milne
  • Episodes
    3
  • Seasons
    1
  • Rating
    Explicit
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