Stuck in FND diagnosis limbo but symptoms.s don't fit
Just a vent: I'm stuck with an FND diagnosis but continue to suffer slow yet persistent muscle weakness, atrophy noted by doctors, and muscle twitching daily. The full list of my symptoms is long enough to anchor a ship, but it boils down to this. I'm fortunate in that progression is very slow but it still affects my life.
What frustrates me is how FND seems to be being used as a 'catch all' by doctors too lazy or incompetent to properly test for more understood and diagnosible diseases. It's as though they just slap it on as a label to get rid of you. I find it hard, based on lived experience, to believe stats that claim FND is rarely diagnosed. I know so many people it has happened to and there is a vested interest from doctors to shrink those figures.
And all the while, where I am in the UK, they're going out and banging drums shouting about payrises. It makes my blood boil.