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General Category => AN Issues => Topic started by: satman on December 04, 2007, 12:22:28 pm

Title: Gender affected rate ?
Post by: satman on December 04, 2007, 12:22:28 pm

Is there any way to start a poll ?
It would be interesting to see if A N affects one gender more than the other.
When I was in in-patient re-hab it seemed that women were affected more.
I was the only male on the floor.
I think those women had A N ,they all had the question mark looking incision.
It might have been something different,no one really brought up thier ailements. [sp?]

Title: Re: Gender affected rate ?
Post by: Brendalu on December 04, 2007, 01:45:47 pm

Ok Satman, I'm female, but my incision is kind of straight up and down!  I had no question about what I had done..........................
Brenda

Title: Re: Gender affected rate ?
Post by: lori67 on December 04, 2007, 02:39:39 pm

Female here too - with the question mark incision.

Looks like men looking to find a girlfriend should start hanging out in the neuro unit.  Odds are pretty good.   :D

Lori

Title: Re: Gender affected rate ?
Post by: Gennysmom on December 04, 2007, 05:44:00 pm

Satman, do you mean there are more women with AN's than men or that AN's have more of an effect on women than men?  I know the general stats are 51% women and 49% men diagnosed with AN.

Title: Re: Gender affected rate ?
Post by: satman on December 05, 2007, 04:19:18 am

I guess that anwsers my quetion,I was wondering if it affected women more than men
and 51 % pretty much anwsers my question.

Title: Re: Gender affected rate ?
Post by: Gennysmom on December 05, 2007, 11:33:45 am

Yup.  Another interesting bit....a bunch of us used to spend a lot more time on frappr.com, and we were able to map all the left, right and NF2ers on it....left and right were pretty much 50-50 as well, so no side is more prevalent than another. 

Consensus seems to be that AN's go through growth spurts when women are pregnant, so maybe that has something to do with the little bit more women than men thing....who knows, just a speculation. 

Title: Re: Gender affected rate ?
Post by: Joef on December 05, 2007, 02:16:45 pm

They changed frappr around a little , I dont see the count anymore.. at anyrate its

http://www.frappr.com/acousticneuroma

I rarely go on here anymore....

Title: Re: Gender affected rate ?
Post by: mindyandy on December 05, 2007, 08:25:06 pm

I'm female. Age 30. I too am curious whether this AN effects women or men more.

Title: Re: Gender affected rate ?
Post by: waypoint on December 05, 2007, 11:56:05 pm

I think your question was answered as about 51%/49% but your observation at the rehab facility may be a different question. Maybe something like, Which gender on a general basis has a tougher time recovering from from AN surgery and utilitizes rehab facilities. That may explain more females to male ratio at the rehab facility. This is by no means a slight against any gender. I am a male and had to and still am dealing with the entire recovery process. I chose not to go to rehab and do it myself at home. Maybe I'm just hard headed.