PCOS Becomes PMOS
Will a New Name Really Help Women?
I diagnosed quite a few women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). That’s not surprising. PCOS affects upwards of 15% of women in the United States. What is often frustrating is that some of these women have been seen by multiple doctors and subjected to lots of testing before being told they don’t have PCOS because they don’t have cysts.
I am the first to admit that PCOS is a terrible name for the constellation of symptoms it describes. After all, it is logical to think that to be diagnosed with a syndrome with “cyst” in the name, a person would need to be forming cysts. But in fact, not all women with PCOS have cysts and not all women with cysts have PCOS.
