PCOS Has Caused Me Major Anxiety, The Name Change Has Been A Long Time Coming |
PCOS Has Caused Me Major Anxiety, The Name Change Has Been A Long Time Coming
The condition, which experts want to see renamed to polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS), impacts more than 170 million women.
Global experts have called for PCOS to be renamed to PMOS. As someone who suffers from the condition, it will be interesting to see how the new name change impacts diagnosis – particularly as it’s thought up to 70% of affected individuals remain undiagnosed.
Women’s health is chronically underfunded, under-researched and most importantly, misunderstood.
I can count on both hands the number of times I have gone to a doctor to discuss a female-health-related issue and have been told to change my contraceptive pill.
The first signs of trouble for me were during my final year at university when my period stopped of its own accord for a whole year. I was going through some crappy, personal stuff at the time so I’d initially thought it was........