Yeahhh no, just no. Women are treated so poorly by the medical system compared to men. I could go to ER with my husband to be seen for the exact same thing He’ll be:

• Seen faster than me
• Listened to instead of questioned
• Given the appropriate tests
• Leave with medication and follow ups.

I’ll be:

• Forced to wait longer times
• Questioned relentlessly (are you pregnant? nope, no longer have a uterus. We’re still gunna give you a pregnancy test because we don’t believe you).
• Will not receive any tests outside of standard baseline tests.
• Will leave with zero answers, no medication, no follow ups. Just a suggestion to drink more water and exercise.

So you men really have no room to complain about lack of reporting when its literally not even applicable to this situation.

Not that I entirely disagree with your point, but if we're going to talk about being put off of reporting, then how about centuries of women being dismissed by medical professionals?

They can only ask. Pain is inherently very subjective. eg:

https://xkcd.com/883/

They didn't, though they do mention pain is complicated to study specifically because diagnosing it necessarily relies on self reporting. This unfortunately makes it virtually impossible to account for that fact. If someone tells you they have some level of pain, there is very little to nothing you can do to know if they are over exaggeratjng, under exaggerating or doing neither.

A more accurate headline would be that women report higher levels of pain across the board, rather than they experience higher levels of pain.

Or standardize the pain scale. A 9 on the scale for me is significantly more pain than a 9 for my wife because I have both a high pain tolerance and threshold. I say 9 because I've never experienced what I'd consider a 10 (pain so intense I lose consciousness).

My vasectomy without anesthesia was a 9.5.

But our response to pain is largely learned.

Holup. I'm still stuck on migranes being worse than childbirth with no meds. Like something literally tore off your uterus and slowly ripped the skin from your vagina to your butthole. How in the world was a headache worse than that?

I'm a woman with no kids so this is an eye opener, but also never saw birth videos so maybe I'm ignorant of things.

complain, or share their feelings?

most guys I know just state how something feels or what is currently bothering them. not complaining, just sharing information

unless it's some type of serious headache — that shit is debilitating.

On the other hand, I get migraines, but they're not even in the top three worst pain I've even experienced. The worst I've ever experienced is a mystery pelvic pain (yes, I'm also female).

Men have weaker immune systems. Which also means women tend to have more autoimmune conditions, leading to more chronic pain. Ouch.