@cortdoesscience: “Neuro EDS” isn’t an official subtype. But if you spend time in this community, you’ll notice a pattern come up again and again: craniocervical instability, tethered cord syndrome, other aspects of neuro-immune involvement. I think we should eventually be subtyping hEDS/HSD by biology rather than by symptoms or comorbidities. Symptom clusters are useful for spotting patterns, but they’re not the same thing as identifying a true biological subtype. Research just hasn’t caught up enough to do the biology-first version yet, so for now, patterns like this one are the best tool we have. This is also a fast-moving area of EDS research right now and I expect more studies looking specifically at this neuro/neuroimmune overlap coming soon.

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lindsayvp
lindsayvp :
🙋‍♀️I have thoracic outlet syndrome and nerve sensitisation.
2026-08-19 01:33:49
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zebrawarrior
Zebrawarrior :
This is the vast majority of hEDS people, don’t know why it needs a subtype
2026-08-18 17:05:25
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slimsagie33
Sage :
I have chronic inflammatory response syndrome from mold infiltrating the bone and cartilage of my sinuses, and I can't find help
2026-08-17 17:41:49
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hekateshorde
Hekate's Horde :
Diagnosed with HSD at 48 - any family that was extra flexy is 💀 and was never officially Dx. My brain MRI looks like MS but my CSF is clean. Migraines. Small Fiber Neuropathy. Stroke runs in our family. Joint pain. never entrapments. Nerve pain. Fibromyalgia. suspected venous compressions. Every year it gets tougher. 💜✌
2026-08-17 18:29:53
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xobarbiex
L🌷 :
I have a HEDS diagnosis but also have 6 of the other diagnosis named, I believe I have 2 others but no doctors will help with them so those 2 aren’t confirmed. I definitely think I would have neuro EDS
2026-08-17 20:57:15
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mckaylanicholes
McKayla Nichole :
I really would like to get a Eds dx instead of just suspected… who can I go to for that?
2026-07-31 23:44:31
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cutebreakfast
cutebreakfast :
There seems to be a relatively high incidence of hypermobility within the IIH population.. probably because vascular stenosis is a disease of the connective tissue. If it’s true what they’re saying at the EDS conference this year about EDS have major hormonal implications, it also makes sense because IIH is also heavily linked with PCOS/PMOS
2026-08-01 06:30:52
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skttlsno1
skttlsno1 :
I'm also curious about adding encephalopathy to that list. And the possibility that the cause is faulty connective tissue in the meninges. At least two of my cousins and my daighter (all who have eds) have had chicken pots or lyme go into their neurosystem. A friend of mine's son also likely has EDS and had 2 forms of encephalopathy at the same time when he was sick as a toddler. We also suspect I have a CSF leak - waiting on the MRI.
2026-08-14 04:47:49
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marywilsonj
Mary Alma :
My family thinks they are missing a type like this. My cousins and my sisters are get older and strokes and seizures.. and pretty much everything on that list. With adding hallucinations and FND like symptoms. We can’t get help.
2026-08-02 01:09:42
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tylers.dream
Tyler's Dream :
This would be my family. Tyler also had Dorsal Arachnoid Webbing. One reason causing his syrinx.
2026-08-17 14:18:20
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jhawk34
Joshalyn :
This makes so much sense for meeeee. I’m diagnosed hEDS. I have MCAS, Dysautonomia, IIH, jugular vein compression/eagles syndrome and mire that has yet to be uncovered!
2026-08-02 23:57:14
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desertwillowlane
desertwillowlane :
oh my gosh....I have been searching for answers to my neuro symptoms,my current dx are MCAS, pots, sfn, eagles plus graves And IgA deficiency. no one had been able to connect my neuro symptoms to anything. but ruled out Ms, and other know Neuro immune disorders. what kind of provider can help with insight on this through this lens?
2026-08-17 04:30:22
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funkychic73
funkychic73 :
Those were all things genetics looked at when I was diagnosed. They looked at all my scans. At that time it was all considered part of EDS! I was diagnosed though in 2014 when the criteria was even more strict. I think that was a good thing. I have a 7 page letter even connecting a majority of these to what they use to call EDS type 3
2026-08-17 14:40:07
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triceratops429
Laura 🦓♾️🐙🏳️‍🌈🍉 :
TOS also
2026-07-31 23:52:11
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mtyson777
Michelle.777 :
I have hEDS POTS IST and small fiber neuropathy. Also have major depressive disorder and various other things.
2026-08-01 23:15:29
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nathalievandijk5
Nathalie van Dijk :
well, i am 51 now. not gonna be a solution in my lifetime....
2026-08-06 20:07:14
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otterly_marsha
🧡🦦 otterly Marsha Faye 🦦🧡 :
I would love to be a part of the studies! I almost died last year from not being able to eat. My specialists seem to just be lost. I’m scared. I don’t want to be but I am desperately scared and yet I still have to fight my ins 🥺
2026-08-01 04:20:06
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slimsagie33
Sage :
I have abnormal HLA haplotypes mold, biotoxin illness and definitely Neuro EDS
2026-08-17 17:41:10
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paperandfireworks
Julia :
That would sure make sense for my daughter. But I think hEDS inherently has neuroimmune involvement. I also think that category seems to include multiple phenotypes though.
2026-08-02 09:36:19
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mamamarcy_
MamaMarcy :
If you need subjects, pick me. I literally have all that. Way more neuro stuff than the norm. HELP!! I
2026-08-02 19:15:54
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chronicly.illest
🪾Sadie Aydee HD🧭 :
I have genetic studies and a shitload of my own research. my kids and I carry variants that have not been found in the population and we're dying.
2026-08-01 04:47:30
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user82355386822525
cuh_tour_me_🌹 :
How about non epileptic seizures?
2026-08-03 03:43:56
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estherrayhouse
Princess :
Ive had a major pons stroke and a bunch of little ones in there. I shouldn't be able to walk but here I am
2026-08-06 19:36:51
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shortstackwitch
Sage :
i have suspected hEDS (several dr’s have noted it, but cannot officially diagnose me) and i needed a cranial vein stent placed for intracranial hypertension last spring
2026-08-01 22:47:52
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trixy.saga
MJLloyd75 :
And what about all of us who are also Neurodivergent? Autistic? ADHD?
2026-08-09 05:56:38
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