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@harnidhk Last week, in The Lancet, the medical establishment did something it almost never does in writing: it admitted the name it had used for one of the most common hormonal conditions in the world was inaccurate, and had been for decades. The condition you know as PCOS is now officially PMOS, or polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome. The renaming came out of a fourteen-year global consensus process involving fifty-six medical organisations and surveys of fourteen thousand patients and clinicians. Most women with this don’t have ovarian cysts at all and the condition was never about the ovaries malfunctioning so much as a whole-body endocrine and metabolic disorder. The paper itself says the old name delayed diagnoses, fragmented care, deepened stigma, and curtailed research funding, because nobody wanted to fund a ‘cyst’ problem. So 170 million women have been carrying around a misdiagnosis, getting sent to the wrong specialist, getting told to lose weight by people who didn’t know the weight was a symptom of the same disorder making it harder to lose. They weren’t broken. They had a condition that even the people studying it had been describing wrong. The girls were right. It just took fourteen years and a global consensus process for medicine to say so. PCOS, PMOS, polycystic ovary syndrome name change, polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome, women’s health, hormonal health, The Lancet
