Hot take: I really do not care about the name change
Is the name change going to give us more help? No. Is the name change going to make scientists research more? Likely not. Did they spend 10 years trying to change the name instead of working to find the cause, and what we can do to fix it? Yes, yes they did.
I will admit that it does give a slightly better answer to the general population as to what PMOS/PCOS is, however we (the women with it) been told this for years. “It’s a metabolic condition.” “It’s an endocrine condition.” Mhm. Okay.
Yet we still don’t have good treatment for it. I’m sorry to be so cynical about this, but unless there is an allocation of money working towards REAL TREATMENT, and I’m not just talking about metformin and birth control. I’m talking like on the label of my prescription it says “use: PCOS/PMOS” then I really do not care. 8.8% of all NIH funding goes towards women’s healthcare, and of that 8.8% (5 billion, annually) less than .64% (31.8 million, annually) goes towards the research of PCOS. YET, somehow the relative cost for “treatment” of PCOS, is 8 BILLION in America alone. So I’m sorry that I don’t care, actually I’m not sorry. Because at the end of the day we’re still underfunded, we still don’t have a treatment, and they spent tens of millions of dollars figuring out a one letter change.
Thank you.