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[210272]

Is it ever OK to refer to conditions like stroke, epilepsy, headache and dementia as 'common and mundane' ?

[M3rry]

They might be COMMON, but mundane? Sounds like a comment from someone who hasn't had a migraine (or cluster headache) or cared for someone who had a stroke or dementia (as a carer or family member, not a doctor who gets to walk away after ten minutes).

And epilepsy, if uncontrolled, causes brain damage - very mundane.

[210272 in reply to M3rry]

Agreed. It's also disrespectful to the researchers involved with these conditions who have done amazing work and are empowering patients in the process. Two of my friends have had a stroke recently - imagine what they would feel like if they read this?

[DNE92 Moderator FND Hope UK]

Never. I don't know what goes through peoples' heads when they think like that - and FND is so life changing I wouldn't even wish it upon them for there ignorance.

[eviedotty]

My neurologist told me a severe bleed on the brain would not be seen by him as a medical emergency having spent a week on a stroke ward and then offered brain surgery to remove the cavernoma that caused the bleed...oh and then they diagnosed

me with FND!!!