Leah I'm so sorry to read about all of your dreadful experiences. I'm in the UK, in my 50s and have seen a variety of healthcare professionals for a number of chronic pain conditions, including endometriosis, since I was a child. My experience has been much the same as yours, with no difference found with female doctors and nurses. In fact some females have been even more cold and condescending than their male counterparts. None of them have really given me any credit for knowing my own body. My pain is usually extreme but I'm so often told it "can't be that bad!" - or as with my last cervical smear test (pap smear), that "it won't hurt!" I'm so tired with it all. I'm in a huge amount of pain right now and I don't know what to do with myself anymore.