Dr. Robert Whitfield identifies ten major problems that restrict daily life for people with mast cell activation syndrome: anxiety and depression, migraines, gastrointestinal issues, food sensitivities, autonomic dysfunction like POTS, hypermobility, pervasive pain, and the possibility that fibromyalgia is actually MCAS.
For everybody listening, what are the top 10 things that your patients are presenting with that really are limiting their activities, lifestyle, and making it complicated for
them? I think top 10 would be anxiety and/or depression, migraines or chronic headaches, chronic GI issues, bloating, diarrhea, constipation, you know, difficulty tolerating foods, food sensitivities, definitely things like POTS or the static intolerance or some kind of dysautonomia. Many of the patients have hypermobility, so they have joint issues. That's an interesting— Okay, so that's like the triad that we sometimes refer to: MCAS, MCAS, POTS, and hypermobility syndrome or EDS, which we can, we can talk more about. Pain is a really common symptom. I do believe that fibromyalgia is in fact MCAS, so they have often been labeled
