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Cat | They/She | 31 | Cutie | Pākehā | Aotearoa | Queer nonbinary 🌈 | Qualified mental health worker | DP @/ummmmandy ✨ 🩷💜💙 💛🤍💜🖤 ✨

[cookiekitcat 🍉 @CookieKitcat]

Happy Valentines 💕

[DONYA 👹 @antiquedeuce]

happy pride 🏳️‍⚧️

[alex ⁉️ @galoostix]

y’all genuinely have to lock in this year no discourse no ironic homophobia no dumb shit we gotta uplift the community and especially trans people right now

[danika @danikaplowman]

hence why we chased them off the stage at big gay out! the audacity and hypocrisy of trying to take up time on our community stages and spaces then turn around and spit in our faces 🤢

[Tiare @Tiare_MP]

Not sure calling the thousands of workers who don’t know if they’ll keep their jobs “hysterical” is the right strat but sure whatever

[cool timothy @dreadconquest]

this is not policy that aims to make anybody’s life better or safer, it’s purely to appeal to bloodthirsty culture war freaks driven insane by their own unhealthy social media habits. this government has to go

[Chiamaka Nwakalor-Egemba @chef_amakaa]

Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome. Published today in The Lancet after 11 years of research and input from over 22,000 people.
Here is what each word means for us:

Polyendocrine means it is about our hormones. All of them. Not just oestrogen and progesterone.

[Chiamaka Nwakalor-Egemba @chef_amakaa]

We have spent years being told it is “just a period problem” while our skin, our weight, our mood, and our energy were all falling apart. Today, the medical world finally admitted you were right.
PCOS is now PMOS.

[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.

[rio 🪲🏳️‍🌈 bug oomf @colligocritters]

yall are doing the WRONG KIND OF THERAPY!! talk therapy is NOT a catch-all and there are hundreds of different kinds. For some reason people started pushing that this is ALL there is + it's SO harmful & discouraging bc yall make it sound like "therapy doesn't work for ND people"

[cookiekitcat 🍉 @CookieKitcat]

@pistvch Where exactly are you getting your information?

[✰ @slowwlifee]

stop delaying joy until life looks a certain way, you're allowed to be happy while you're still figuring it out

[cookiekitcat 🍉 @CookieKitcat]

@lilaclovebug_ and $100 per month for their patreon??? What the fuck

[meyo 🌸 @meyoco_]

carnivorous bulbs