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This is on point. I'm Megna Chakrabardi.

Emily Hoppus is a researcher This is on point. I'm Megna Chakrabardi.

Emily Hoppus is a researcher for FHI 360, an international NGO.

Her work focuses on family planning and menstrual health. It's a field she's professionally

committed to and personally connected with. I have had severe menstrual pain

ever since I started my period when I was 13 years old and that was a really

hard thing to experience as an adolescent and it only progressed and got worse as I got older and I had a

really fraught relationship with the health care system.

So when you're 13 you're still going to a pediatrician. They don't have

expertise in menstrual health. I wasn't taken seriously. Even though I told

doctors that I passed out from the pain that I was throwing up because I was in so much pain.

A lot of people just said, you know, that's what menstruation is, you know, your period is hard, you get pain, you have

symptoms and you just have to deal with it, and that's part of being a woman in

quotes. And so that sort of progressed for a long time.

I went to college and I tried to manage my symptoms there

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