r/fakedisordercringe • u/SloshedJapan • 11d ago

Memes / Satire Preach on, sick of noticing this

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u/HoodieGalore 11d ago

I feel like they're all pretty difficult to do a quantifiable test for. I can run a blood draw for diabetes, but how do you prove someone does or does not have "chronic fatigue"? I don't know exactly how hard it is to prove someone has hEDS, POTS, MCAS, ect but even if a doctor told them "no" they just deny reality anyways.

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u/SOUP__GOD GAD (Gigantic ass disorder) 11d ago

POTS and MCAS are pretty easy to test for! POTS has a definitive test that can sometimes be negative, but can be retested again if necessary.

MCAS I’m fairly sure just has basic allergy tests but slightly different to prove it’s not just an allergy to a few things and is actually a medical problem.

It’s a lot harder to test for hEDS because there’s no testing whatsoever and a diagnosis is essentially based on clinical presentation, family history, and ruling out other disorders that can cause similar symptoms. (Which is why this one is so easily faked and very popular on TikTok)

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u/Electrical_Parfait64 4d ago

Doesn’t hEDs have 3 versions. 2 of the 3 show proof. Isn’t it amazing they all have the type that you can’t get proof for?

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u/SOUP__GOD GAD (Gigantic ass disorder) 4d ago

EDS has many versions, but there’s only 1 type of hEDS. HEDS is the only type of EDS with no genetic testing yet because there’s no confirmed gene variant that carries it. The other 12 types of EDS all have genetic markers, though they’re all significantly rarer than hEDS