CRAMPED

Kate Helen Downey

crampedpodcast@gmail.com

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Booking Overview

CRAMPED is a medical-systems explainer and lived-experience show focused on menstrual pain and why it’s so often dismissed. It’s built around interviews with clinicians/researchers and patient advocates, offering a compelling, audience-ready angle for health communications and advocacy brands.

Metrics

Episodes: 48

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Female

Location: USA

Instagram: 7.7k followers

Contact Information

crampedpodcast@gmail.com

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Host

Kate Helen Downey - Host who has spent years seeking answers for severe menstrual pain (“death cramps”). In the podcast, she interviews top doctors and researchers and explores conditions and controversies around mens...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Mix of (1) patient advocates/lived-experience educators and (2) “top doctors and researchers” aligned with menstrual pain, endometriosis, chronic pain, and related medical communication topics. Recent episodes also include an external podcaster guest discussing pain scale/research.
Required Achievements:  
Public-facing health education (e.g., podcasts/social media), Clinical or research contributions to understanding menstrual pain and/or pain assessment, Advocacy work around medical dismissal/undertreatment

Recent Guest Discussions

Golda Arthur - Pain Language And The Pain Scale; Gendered Pain Perception In Medical Training; A Thunderclap Headache Experience (implied As The Story Context).

Melissa - Comorbidity/overlapping Diagnoses (eds, POTS, Endo, Fibroids, Cysts, SIBO, Arthritis, Etc.), Severe Pain History And Surgery, Depression And Medical Debt, And A Treatment That Helped Quickly.

Recent Topics

Women's Health, Endometriosis, Gynecology, Chronic Pain, Medical Research

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
CRAMPED
:

Forgetting Everything I've Learned: Acupuncture, Fertility, and the Sunk Cost Fallacy

June 30, 2026

PATREON-ONLY EPISODE TEASERJoin the CRAMPED Patreon to listen to the full episode: https://patreon.com/crampedI've spent spent years learning to advocate for myself, trust my body, and walk out of rooms where I'm not being listened to. So why did I stick with a provider who was dismissing my concerns, prescribing unnecessary medications, and wasting my time and my money?This is the full story of a fertility acupuncture practice that wasn't right for me from day one, the sunk cost fallacy that...

The Pain Scale Is Useless and Everybody Knows It

June 23, 2026

Scale of one to ten, how much does it hurt? If you have ever sat in an ER thinking "eleven" and said "seven," Golda Arthur of the Overlooked podcast understands completely. She did the same thing during a thunderclap headache episode, and has been thinking about it ever since.Kate and Golda dissect the broken language of pain: the useless pain scale, the research showing doctors are trained to hear men's pain as physical and women's pain as emotional, and how even Virginia Woolf in 1926 compl...

The Comorbidity Queen: EDS, POTS, Endo, Fibroids, Cysts, SIBO, Arthritis, and more!

June 16, 2026

Content warning: this episode includes a brief discussion of suicide attempts, please listen with care. Melissa, known on TikTok as the Comorbidity Queen, has endometriosis, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, pelvic congestive syndrome, May-Thurner syndrome, Nutcracker syndrome, thoracic outlet syndrome, POTS, MCAS, Lyme disease, chronic anemia, and a first rib that doctors want to remove.In this episode she tells us everything: the nine-hour emergency surgery at 17, the $65,000 in medical debt, the sev...

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