Despite what I suspect the general consensus on HN may be, this does not surprise me at all. My wife was recently diagnosed with Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) after a pretty scary series of ER visits. It's a very strange and stubborn autoimmune disease that manifests with a number of symptoms that, taken individually, could indicate damn near anything. You could almost feel the doctors rolling their eyes as she explained her symptoms and medical history. Anyway... it lit a bit of a fire in me to dig deeper, and one day Claude suggested MCAS. I started plugging in more labs, asking for Claude to cross-reference journals mentioning MCAS, and sure enough: it's MCAS. idk what the moral of the story is except our current medical system is a joke. The doctors aren't the villains, but they sure aren't the heroes either.
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- 2026-05
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- 2026-09-06