Does POIS show up on official doctor databases of disorders? Is there a such an unified system?
Many POISers have said some doctors did not even know it exists and even when told about the name they were sceptical
So is there a lack of information in the databases?
POIS is officially listed in the Rare Diseases database of the National Insitute for Health (NIH), see
https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/10809/postorgasmic-illness-syndrome It is also listed on Orphanet:
https://www.orpha.net/consor/cgi-bin/Disease_Search.php?lng=EN&data_id=20421&Disease_Disease_Search_diseaseGroup=pois&Disease_Disease_Search_diseaseType=Pat&Disease%28s%29/group%20of%20diseases=Postorgasmic-illness-syndrome--POIS-&title=Postorgasmic-illness-syndrome--POIS-&search=Disease_Search_Simple Most doctors do not know about POIS because it is a rare disease, and they do not see cases during their training and career. But if a doctor take the time to search pubmed for it, he will find a lot of medical articles on POIS:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=post-orgasmic+illness+syndrome Pubmed is freely accessible to all doctors, so it is a question of being willing to take the time to investigate.
There is not much information on POIS up to now, but a simple search on pubmed, a database trusted by doctors, will show that POIS do exist.
I strongly recommend that you give this link to any POIS sufferer planning a visit to a doctor, any doctor:
https://poiscenter.com/forums/index.php?topic=2392.msg20182#msg20182 . It clearly says what to expect, and gives to link that you can send the doctor, which is the best review article so far on POIS ( this article is at
https://tau.amegroups.com/article/view/11107/11778 . Access is free, it is the whole article, complete with references, and it is from Dr. Waldinger).
Of course, any skeptical doctor can be given the link to Muon's POIS archives, listing all POIS articles published in medical journals, by year of publication:
https://poiscenter.com/forums/index.php?topic=3127.msg31515#msg31515 . This will make it clear to them that POIS is already acknowledged by at least a part of the medical community.
A high-profile POIS study like the one coming up this year will help raise that awareness among doctors, of course.