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It Usually Takes Women Years To Learn They Have HS. Here’s Why.

In order to receive a diagnosis of hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), it’s not always as simple as noticing a boil and scheduling a dermatology appointment. For many people, the process can take nearly a decade. A physician needs to know the abrasion is recurrent, meaning the boil needs to have appeared, disappeared, and then reappeared like a persistent, unwelcome houseguest. It’s a frustrating and painful pattern, known far too well by women with the chronic skin condition.Women in North America are three times more likely than men to have HS, making it similar to many issues that primarily affe...