A Girl Has No Name

I carry a nerf battle axe

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

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.

[A Girl Has No Name @alysabcannon]

Forever grateful to share a brain cell with my sister

[Brunoh🧃 @BrodiiKDB]

??? !!!

[Emily Cooper @emmcooper42]

All women should carry an emergency soft pretzel in their purse.

[𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚌𝚌 𝙲𝚑𝚞𝚗𝚐𝚞𝚜 🍄 @anactualwalnut]

My most controversial take is that unless you eat nothing but ground beef rice & veggies for every meal, cooking at home as one person who desires variety is truly not that much cheaper than buying out for every meal. I’ve attempted to do both and I noticed minimal difference in my finances.

[Connor @joannesbitch]

I think the apple’s rotten right to the core

[A Girl Has No Name @alysabcannon]

I wonder how @JessicaBlevins is doing (hopefully good)

[A Girl Has No Name @alysabcannon]

@caaaaay1a WWPDW should be in every woman’s vernacular

[hunter* @y2khunter]

That damn squirrel

[A Girl Has No Name @alysabcannon]

@caaaaay1a Is it just me or is there a heart 🥺

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

The Supreme Court also did this

[elliott @elliott_green_]

dating someone who is actually nice to me rocks why didn’t I do this sooner

[reb @rebmasel]

From iconic court transcripts to published author :) I can’t wait for you to see it ♡

[ihatepivots @ihatepivots]

just had my year end review and they've decided they're gonna put me down

[helia @ItsEliane]

Not being able to teleport is continuing to be a huge inconvenience for me

[Lydia Kauppi @lydiakauppi]

The only thing women shouldn’t wear after 35 is the weight of societal expectations

[GL @gldivittorio]

Europeans watching Americans fix their healthcare system with gun violence