[drc500free]

I'm more and more convinced that POTS/EDS/MCAS aren't rare diseases, they're just criminally under-diagnosed because they tend to affect women. FWIW, POTS is much more manageable with medication (e.g. Midodrine and Florinef).

[77pt77]

> criminally under-diagnosed because they tend to effect women

I just can't understand this argument. Women already live 5 years longer than men on average. You mean to tell me if the system didn't discriminate so strongly against their best interest they'd live even longer than men?

[Djvacto]

Responding to both you and the comment above/below you:

Women have a hard time getting symptoms, esp around pain, taken seriously. Oftentimes these symptoms are downplayed or ignored, regardless of the sex/gender of the medical professional.

[77pt77]

Again. If they are discriminated so strongly against, why do they live 5 years longer on average?

It's like you completely disregarded my comment and decided instead to just proselytize.

[kalleboo]

Because of biology? Other female primates (chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, etc) also live longer than males.

I don't understand your argument. Just because women live longer on average, they're supposed to live in pain without treatment?

[77pt77]

My argument is that if there was a significant bias against them then that gap would not exist or be much smaller.

In reality they get about 7 times the allocated health expenditure that males get.

[ejb999]

nurses are 91% female and doctors are about 37% female - are they also 'criminally under-diagnosing'? Seems there are quite a few more women in healthcare than men these days.