Women should be given PTO for heavy periods. Do you agree?

Seems like you are trying to change in whatever you like to be the one who can be called "right". Now you suggest we are saying exactly the same thing, while in first instance you were saying the exact oposite.

Let's try one more time:

Ever since having heavy periods is a problem returning more or less every month ( yes I do understand how periods work), once you had medical advice, and they can't make it less painfull, there is nothing you can do about it so a monthly check-up wouldn't be nessicary.

BUT: If in your job /country law requires a sick note to get a day off while in pain , you need to contact a doctor.

Your answer to this was that doctors would loose a lot of time if all woman came every month to ask him for a sick note while a doctor can't do anything more as a sick note.

As I wanted to inform others that not every doctor finds it nessicary to see you personally, to proove something he already knows. So people could save them selve and the the doctor lot of time this way.

Then you gave 2 reasons why getting a sick note by phone is not a good idea. 1. YOU: People can lie about their pain ME: no one can proof the level of pain (s)he's in, so you can lie about pain everytime, weither fysicaly or by phone". 2. YOU: People can lie about having their periods ME: You can lie about having your periods while you are visiting a doctor, because no doctor would do a fysical examination to get a proove you are really having your periods (or as you call it , "your ovaries are still working").

Futhermore you seem to believe you are the only woman who knows how having your periods works. Because as you can asume by my username, I am a women, and you still find it nessicary to explain how periods - and fysical examinations concerning periods - work.

And know you claim we are saying the same, while before you said exactly the oposite.

Why a physical examination isn't nessicary everytime to get a sick note?!

Right before going to visit a doctor I tend to wash myself, as most people do I guess. If I wasn't bleeding 15 minutes between washing myself and seeing my GP, so there is no proof at all, does that proof wasn't having a heavy periods just before, or won't be heaving an heavy period right after the visit? Or if I am bleeding, does it proof it feels painfull to me? Does the fact that I am on heavy periods right now, proof that I will feel the same in an hour? ... That's why most doctors don't repeat this fysical examination every month, you can claim whatever you want about the level of pain you are in, the only thing they can do is believe you at this point. And if people would like to lie to get a sick note, they would come with an other excuse that doesn't require an embarrasing fysical examination, like example : having a very painfull headacche .

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