It's been known for a long time that women are more prone to autoimmune issues of all kinds, and yet as other comments here discuss, there is just not much done

It's been known for a long time that women are more prone to autoimmune issues of all kinds, and yet as other comments here discuss, there is just not much done in the way of thorough exclusion of rarer autoimmune causes. Many doctors, even rheumatologists, just run a standard set of blood tests that only test for common autoimmune issues, and if none of those turn out positive well then I guess it must all be in her mind! And since portability of medical records sucks in the U.S., one often starts again at the beginning with each new doctor no matter how much has been examined before. The gulf between medicine-as-accrued-knowledge and medicine-as-actually-practiced is very wide. https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/female-propensity-for-autoimmune-diseases-tied-to-x-chromosome-inactivation/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/female-propensity-fo...