slysaint
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I have been reading up on FND and watched a video (Australian) where patients and their neurologist discuss what happened to them.
The patient support website FND Hope has some interesting information.
https://fndhope.org/fnd-guide/diagnosis/misdiagnosed/
"...misdiagnosis is a probability with all illness. Studies can be interpreted many different ways and different inclusion and exclusion scenarios can impact the results."
"It is important that functional diagnoses derive from positive signs not negative test results. It is also imperative that not all symptoms are labeled functional and that assumptions are not made that functional symptoms are not co-existing or the result of organic illness."
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Some in the medical community mistake medical uncertainty with “all in your head”. It is imperative doctors not equate functional symptoms with “all in your head”and not insinuate one means the other.
This poor practice of assuming medical uncertainty means a psychogenic cause often effects tens of millions of patients throughout the US and UK alone".
"When doctors are faced with medical uncertainty, they sometimes assume their patient’s cause of illness is psychogenic in nature. This assumption can lead to patients being denied medical care and receiving psychiatric care instead or no care at all."
So I'm guessing the (Psychogenic) part might not have gone down very well with sufferers(?)
It might explain why Chalder and Wessely were there..........self-promoting(?) getting in on the act.
The patient support website FND Hope has some interesting information.
https://fndhope.org/fnd-guide/diagnosis/misdiagnosed/
"...misdiagnosis is a probability with all illness. Studies can be interpreted many different ways and different inclusion and exclusion scenarios can impact the results."
"It is important that functional diagnoses derive from positive signs not negative test results. It is also imperative that not all symptoms are labeled functional and that assumptions are not made that functional symptoms are not co-existing or the result of organic illness."
"
Some in the medical community mistake medical uncertainty with “all in your head”. It is imperative doctors not equate functional symptoms with “all in your head”and not insinuate one means the other.
This poor practice of assuming medical uncertainty means a psychogenic cause often effects tens of millions of patients throughout the US and UK alone".
"When doctors are faced with medical uncertainty, they sometimes assume their patient’s cause of illness is psychogenic in nature. This assumption can lead to patients being denied medical care and receiving psychiatric care instead or no care at all."
So I'm guessing the (Psychogenic) part might not have gone down very well with sufferers(?)
It might explain why Chalder and Wessely were there..........self-promoting(?) getting in on the act.
