THREAD: Women and "Unexplained" Diseases
It's interesting that even a condition as common as #Migraine is still not well understood.
Significant overlap with many other conditions mostly impacting women that are also "not well understood" is present.
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cc: @jenbrea @ahandvanish @AthenaAkrami @Dr2NisreenAlwan @MBVanElzakker
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If you work on #longCOVID and say \u201cI\u2019m not an #MECFS expert, I don\u2019t know anything about it, it\u2019s not my job to know about ME or \u2019fatigue\u2019\u201d then you really, REALLY need to learn about ME. This is what MANY infections can do, not just SARS2. pic.twitter.com/zke0MqwrEd
— Jennifer Brea\U0001f992 (@jenbrea) January 14, 2021
Example stats ME/CFS:
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In ME/CFS is about 80/20 female/male. Before puberty, gender ratio is 50/50. Many anecdotal reports of trans people who take hormones: F to M improve, M to F experience worsening symptoms. Female preponderance is found in both sporadic cases and historically, in outbreaks.
— Jennifer Brea\U0001f992 (@jenbrea) January 12, 2021
Majority of patients with PNES are women, outnumbering men by a ratio of 3:1. Female sex preponderance occurs after puberty & usually before the age of 55
Lack of data does not equal lack of EXISTENCE of a problem, it equals lack of UNDERSTANDING of the problem.
And this problem is immense.
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Like this tweet if:
— Dr. Jessica Taylor (@DrJessTaylor) January 13, 2021
- You are a woman
- You have ever been ignored, gaslit, accused of exaggerating or told its all in your head by a doctor when you sought help for a medical problem
I just wanna see something.
My optimistic hope is that the enormous amounts of funding for #COVID19 open doors to understanding pathophysiology of previously neglected diseases particularly in women.
But our scientific ignorance should not be wielded to blame & further abuse patients.
Our lack of understanding is not their failure but ours.
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Well, it would be so much easier if we didn\u2019t continuously \u201ccarve diagnoses out of the psychosomatic wastebasket\u201d as Maya Dusenbury so eloquently wrote in her book Doing Harm. So I will continue to rant about it. Wont make the medical profession happy, but time to face reality... pic.twitter.com/iFJudV9BLX
— GinaMcGalliard \U0001f9dc\U0001f3fb\u200d\u2640\ufe0f\U0001f315\U0001f339 (@GinaMcGalliard) January 12, 2021
There are more specific, more scientific, and less offensive terminology we can use for women's bodies.
@VirusesImmunity @angie_rasmussen @DocElovitz
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