{"podcast":{"title":"Gyno Girl Presents: Sex, Drugs & Hormones","slug":"gyno-girl-presents-sex-drugs-hormones-6732899","podcast_index_feed_id":6732899,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/gyno-girl-presents-sdh/","website_url":"https://gyno-girl-presents-sdh.captivate.fm","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/164e6594-85e1-4e0b-b3b6-d8042b5709a2/yyI1CwqPFkrdLAL8VmdaLXV3.jpg","author":"Dr. Sameena Rahman","episode_count":143,"summary":"As a fierce champion for women empowering women (and the people that love them), GynoGirl provides the knowledge and education to help you advocate for yourself so that you can live your best life! Dr. Sameena Rahman curates a space for exploring hormonal changes, sexual health, and pelvic wellness, while also emphasizing self-love and life improvement. Through collaborations with leading experts and the personal stories of patients, she provides a platform for knowledge-sharing while also addressing healthcare issues that have impaired women’s quality of life. A board-certified, South-Asian Muslim-American gynecologist who specializes in sex medicine and menopause, Dr. Rahman highlights the influence of religion, culture, racial bias, and societal factors on sexual health experiences.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-18T16:18:36.111376+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gyno-girl-presents-sex-drugs-hormones-6732899"},"episode":{"title":"Seven Gynecologists Refused Her Before She Got Help | Mathilde Olstad on Vulvovaginal Pain","slug":"seven-gynecologists-refused-her-before-she-got-help-mathilde-olstad-on-vulvovaginal-pain","published_at":"2026-07-17T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gyno-girl-presents-sex-drugs-hormones-6732899/seven-gynecologists-refused-her-before-she-got-help-mathilde-olstad-on-vulvovaginal-pain","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gyno-girl-presents-sex-drugs-hormones-6732899","url":"https://www.cgcchicago.com/demo-podcast-page/seven-gynecologists-refused-her-before-she-got-help-mathilde-olstad-on-vulvovaginal-pain","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/72ce0bc7-d562-448e-9e38-57ec24a4e4b4.mp3","summary":"At 25, Mathilde Olstad's life was on track: a new relationship, a finance degree nearly finished, a career about to launch. Then pain during sex appeared out of nowhere, Then pain during sex appeared out of nowhere, and it didn't go away. What followed was years of dismissal, dead ends, expensive alternative treatments, and being refused by seven gynecologists before she could access specialized care. Instead of staying silent, she turned her experience into The World's Tightest Community, a podcast reaching thousands of women living with vulvovaginal pain. In this episode, Dr. Sameena Rahman sits down with Mathilde Olstad, creator and host of The World's Tightest Community, a podcast dedicated to vulvovaginal health, chronic pelvic pain, and breaking the silence around conditions like vulvodynia, vestibulodynia, and vaginismus. Mathilde shares her story from the beginning: the sudden onset of burning vestibular pain at 25, a GP who told her everything looked fine, a year and a half of waiting, and the excruciating speculum exam where the shock on her providers' faces told her everything about how unprepared the system was for patients like her. She describes the desperate search that followed, from mainstream treatments to $1,500 herbal prescriptions, and the profound loneliness of never seeing anyone else who had walked this road. The conversation goes global: why the latest research in vulvovaginal pain isn't crossing the Atlantic, what it took for Mathilde to access Norway's public vulvar clinic after seven gynecologists refused to take her on, and why so many complex pain patients become what clinicians call \"heartsink patients.\" Dr. Rahman and Mathilde also dig into the visual language of these conditions, why \"you are not alone\" rings hollow when you can't see a…","meta_description":"At 25, Mathilde Olstad's life was on track: a new relationship, a finance degree nearly finished, a career about to launch. Then pain during sex appeared…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3071,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/gyno-girl-presents-sex-drugs-hormones-6732899/episodes/seven-gynecologists-refused-her-before-she-got-help-mathilde-olstad-on-vulvovaginal-pain/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gyno-girl-presents-sex-drugs-hormones-6732899/seven-gynecologists-refused-her-before-she-got-help-mathilde-olstad-on-vulvovaginal-pain.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}