Questions for You Category Suggestion

[Heiferly]

Can you add "Dysautonomia" (possibly as a subcategory under neurology, to be consistent with how the health pages are organized as that's who we're lumped together with there) as a category on "questions for you?"  I have plenty of expertise for questions specific to the Dysautonomia forum (as one of the co-CLs there), but "Neurology" is a *massive* topic and if I just check that in general, I'm going to have to weed through tons of questions that aren't even remotely in my area of expertise.  Even moreso because Dysauto is a rare disease, so percentage wise, our questions will comprise a low percentage of Neurology questions overall and it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.

In the same vein, with the stars we've gotten, in the Dysautonomia Forum, we've all be labeled as experts in "arrhythmias" which is a little misleading as that's not quite on target for dysautonomia.  Can you add dysautonomia as a category so we can be credited for expertise on the appropriate topic?  I don't want people with various arrhythmias unrelated to the autonomic nervous system to mistakenly think that I have answers for their questions, as the scope of my knowledge with regard to cardiology truly is limited to its intersections with my condition.  (I suppose I should speak for myself here; some others in the forum may indeed have overall expertise in arrhythmias, but I do not.)

Thanks!

[Heiferly]

Taken together, considering all forms of autonomic nervous system dysfunction, dysautonomia affects more people than autism.  It's a rare disease more by lack of knowledge/awareness than by actual rarity of cases ... but I guess by the standard that your categories are going to stay as broadly defined as doctors define their medical specialties, it is what it is.  I think what is being overlooked here is that many of the sites users, no less we CLs, aren't comfortable claiming a scope of knowledge as broad as an entire medical speciality when in actuality we are only intimately familiar with a select disease/condition or a few.  Filtering questions by specialty doesn't begin to narrow things down enough to get at our own personal "area" and makes it a useless function, that leaves us right back where we've always been:  going directly to our forums of interest to look for relevant posts.  I guess it raises the question for me:  why was this section of the site made?  Who was the target audience and what functionality were they supposed to get out of it that they weren't getting using other parts of the site?  Maybe I'm just missing the point and it was never intended for me in the first place.

[Med Help]

Dysautonomia is too rare a condition and needs to be rolled up into a larger category. We had considered heart (arrhythmia) and neurology but felt that heart might be a better place for it. We can switch this to neurology if you like and if it is approved by our doctors, but we cannot create a new category for it. If we did, every forum would want it's own category.

[PastorDan]

I have to agree with this post in principle; please see mine from a few minutes ago titled "Category suggestion" or something along those lines.  I've learned a little something about Multiple Sclerosis (mostly here), but labeling me as a top answerer for Neurology is way too broad.