I'm sure this is a story others with EDS and/or MCAS will understand. Why is our treatment so bad, when doctors have access to the same information that we have. NHS still has hEDS in musculoskeletal box, instead of major illness, despite the issue being raised in Parliament (most recently 22nd May 2024). Why is Professor Rodney Graeme's quote that "no other disease in the history of modern medicine has been neglected in such a way as Ehlers-Danlos syndrome" still relevant 10 years later?
Why do doctors mistake "controversial" means of diagnosing MCAS with "MCAS is a controversial diagnosis"? It isn't.
NHS is fantastic if you fit neatly into a box. Unfortunately neither hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, nor MCAS fit into any one box. So we continue to suffer unless we can afford £350-£600 for a Private Specialist. And that's just for 1 appointment. It costs NHS far more to keep sending us to lots of different departments, with 0 benefit, than it would to send us to see the Private Specialists.
If I do see a doctor, most of the appointment is wasted explaining that hEDS is multisystemic, not just joint hypermobility. If that were the case it would be called "Joint hypermobility" not "hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome".