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Called odontogenic brain abscesses.A chronic occult infection from the failed root canal was already a biologically plausible differential, particularly given the toothache, putrid smell and referred ear pain. The fact that his symptoms substantially resolved after the infection was treated makes causation considerably

I’m glad you found the answer and are feeling better. Keppra can cause depression, anxiety and cognitive problems that resemble FCD. Missing a known medication effect and misdiagnosing it as functional is a serious diagnostic failure.

Of 148,727 patients diagnosed with FND, 78.5% had another recorded neurological diagnosis. That is an extraordinarily high rate to dismiss as mere coincidence and lends weight to the possibility that FND may possibly represent a common phenotype across different neurological diseases.

This dashboard entry is based on a real, published case report: "Revising a diagnosis of functional neurological disorder—a case report".In this particular case, I agree that the neurologists did their due diligence. They continued following the patient, recognised that the clinical picture was changing, ordered furthe

Thank you for sharing this. This piece echoes much of what I have written about on my own site, particularly FND’s apparent unfalsifiability, its circular reasoning and the almost religious character the discourse can take on when hypotheses are treated as established facts and contrary evidence is absorbed rather than

Researchers say medicine doesnt work for FND but thats pure conjecture when no one fully knows what causes these symptoms or how the brain is glitching. We cant keep denying people treatments that might help just because of an unproven hypothesis. If it works for someone its usually just treating their claimed comorbid