CRAMPED

Kate Helen Downey

crampedpodcast@gmail.com

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Booking Overview

This is an interview-led women’s health show focused on menstrual pain, reproductive health, and shortcomings in medical care, featuring doctors, researchers, and public-facing guests with relevant personal experience. Credible candidates include obstetrician-gynecologists, reproductive-health and pain researchers, patient advocates, and authors or media figures who can speak thoughtfully about these issues; booking difficulty is medium.

Metrics

Episodes: 49

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 - Creator and host focused on investigating menstrual pain, reproductive health, and the medical system through personal reporting and interviews with doctors, researchers, and other knowledgeable gu...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Relevant expertise in menstrual, reproductive, gynecological, or pain health; clinical or research credentials; patient advocacy experience; or a credible public platform and personal experience that informs the discussion.
Required Achievements:  
Medical or research expertise in reproductive or pain health, Public advocacy or educational work on women’s health, Authorship, podcasting, or other public communication experience

Recent Guest Discussions

Courtney Kocak - Period Pain, Hashimoto’s Disease, Perimenopause, Ovarian Reserve, Menopause-delaying Drugs, Ovarian Cysts, And Melasma.

Golda Arthur - Pain Scales, Language For Describing Pain, Gender Bias In Medical Pain Assessment, And The Dismissal Of Women’s Pain.

Recent Topics

Menstrual Health, Reproductive Health, Endometriosis, Gynecology, Pain Medicine

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
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Melasma, Drugs That Delay Menopause, and Girl Gone Wild with Courtney Kocak

July 07, 2026

Writer, podcaster, and comedian Courtney Kocak talks about her period pain history, her Hashimoto's diagnosis, and the longevity drug she's currently taking to try to delay menopause and preserve her ovarian reserve. They also get into why perimenopause is basically puberty in reverse, what happens inside your body when an ovarian cyst ruptures in a Taco Bell, and why birth control gave them both a skin discoloration called melasma.Join the CRAMPED Patreon: https://patreon.com/crampedCRAMPED ...

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...

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