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Unpopular opinion: Mainstream medicine can't help you with #PCOS.
Mainstream healthcare is disease management care. It has been designed to treat symptoms, not the whole person.
#PCOS affects SEVERAL of the body's systems, which is why you'll run through several doctors and diagnoses before they put it together.
Folks are having all kinds of period problems and being told it's normal, but you can take this Rx. Also, lose weight. Deal with it.
The fact that mainstream doctors can't help with #PCOS is that they can't do anything for lean PCOS.
PCOS may be genetic but lifestyle plays a huge role. People with menstrual cycles have been running on a circadian rhythm that doesn't match with how their hormone cycles.
We don't learn about that because medicine, specifically gynecology, has never cared enough about people with uteruses to study it and educate others about it.
They don't even think it's important to have full and complete illustrations of female anatomy while they are teaching aspiring doctors how to slice into it. cc @MediClit
So much more to say, but this baby needs some lovin'.
