I have no interest in being around people who assign malicious intent to every mistake. If grace is reserved for no one, not even the people in your life, I can only imagine how harshly you judge strangers
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Lord, remember this child who was attempting to do good and be her aunt's protector 🙏 Let's help in any way we can.
In 1935, two American doctors examined seven women's ovaries and saw small lumps. They called them cysts and named the disease after them. They were wrong. It took 91 years to fix.
What we called PCOS is now Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome (PMOS), announced today in The Lancet by an international panel of doctors and patients. The renaming followed more than a decade of consensus work and 22,000 patient and clinician survey responses.
The lumps Stein and Leventhal saw were never cysts. Modern imaging shows they were follicles, the tiny sacs inside the ovary that grow and release an egg each month, frozen partway through by a hormonal imbalance. PMOS is a multi-system disorder centered in the endocrine system, the body's network of glands that produces hormones like insulin (controls blood sugar), cortisol (the stress hormone), and thyroid hormones (set the body's metabolism). The ovary trouble flows downstream from there.
The naming choice is not academic. When doctors hear "ovary" in a diagnosis, they look at the ovary. "Metabolic" and "endocrine" send them to the whole body.
PMOS affects roughly 1 in 8 women worldwide, more than 170 million people. The WHO estimates 70% have never been diagnosed. Among those who do, 1 in 3 wait more than 2 years, and nearly half see 3 or more doctors first. The CDC reports more than half of women with PMOS develop type 2 diabetes by age 40, a risk 5 to 10 times higher than women without the condition. Around 37% have clinically significant depression, compared with 14% in women without it. Anxiety runs at 42% versus 8.5%.
A label born from a 1935 look at seven ovaries is finally going away. The new diagnostic guidelines roll out fully in 2028. By then, a woman walking into a clinic with these symptoms should hear questions about her blood sugar and her mood alongside her cycle. Those are the parts of the disease the old name hid for 91 years.
NYC seasons:
- fall
- winter
- winter 2.0
- fake spring
- winter 3.0
- fake spring 2.0
- winter 4.0. <— you are here
- maybe spring
- I think it’s actually spring
- spring
- summer
- sixth circle of hell
- fall
- Vous prenez d'autres médicaments ?
- Non rien, à part des plantes.
- Quelles plantes ?
- Pourquoi vous voulez savoir ça ?
- Au cas où il y aurait des interactions médicamenteuses
- Mais ce ne sont que des plantes…
- Du coup, vous prenez quoi ?
- Juste du millepertuis
Some days I wake up and get straight to it, and some days I wake up and need to go back to sleep. I honor whatever I feel and still have an amazing day.