12/05/2026
I have been sitting with this news all day and I just had to come straight here to share it with you all because if anyone deserves to hear this first, it’s this community.
As of today, May 12th 2026, PCOS has officially been renamed PMOS — Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome. Published in The Lancet. It is real. It is official. And I am so hopeful right now.
We all know what it feels like to be dismissed. To sit in a doctor’s office and feel like our suffering wasn’t taken seriously. To be told it’s “just” cysts. But we have always known it was so much more than that the hormones, the weight, the mental health, the skin, the fatigue, the irregular periods. Our whole body. Not just our ovaries.
And now? The medical world has to acknowledge that too.
This name change took 14 years. 22,000 voices. 56 organisations worldwide. Women just like us filled out surveys, showed up, and spoke up. And they finally listened.
PMOS —Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome finally reflects the full reality of what we live with every single day. That is not a small thing. That is everything.
I am so hopeful for the women who will now get diagnosed faster. For the girls who won’t have to fight as hard to be believed. For all of us in this group who have been carrying this for years.
We were always seen here. Now the world has to see us too.
And please share this with anyone who needs to hear it.
🔗 Official Lancet article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(26)00717-8/fulltext