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I had it for a couple of months when my FND and anxiety were spiking; once or twice a night I would wake up due to a short burst of what sounded like radio crackle. Freaked me out the first few times, then again, everything freaked me out at the time..

Recent study: atypical food allergies and IBD. www.gastrojournal.org/article/S0016-5085(19)34636-0 Edit: formatting

Out of 2223 citations, only 6 studies were used. 1727 were excluded because a full text was not available!? Plenty of authors will send a PDF of their article, when you send a friendly email, especially when you're a fellow academic. When you manage to assess only 0.27% of the studies in your...

When you find you can no longer rely on your body and your wits, it's a life-altering realisation. My trust in my body and mind was shattered, of course I have a bias focusing on the crazy shit my body was doing (or not doing).

The difference is in the increased resolution of MRI imaging as well as new imaging techniques such as Diffusion Tensor Imaging. DTI is particularly useful for creating connectivity maps of the brain. Clear differences between FND and controls are visible here.

Ah, yes but my premise is not that anxiety causes my FND, but it directly affects my symptoms. That is a big difference. And I'm well aware of correlation vs causation, hard evidence would be nice to have, but in this case I have to make do with inferences based on my own observations. I have...

Literally a 1 on 1 relationship between my anxiety and symptoms. A lack of anxiety does not eliminate my symptoms completely, but is sure does exacerbate them immediately. Can I be sure there is no confounder, no. But my lived-in experience tells me the two are inextricably linked in my case.

I see what you're saying, and some will undoubtedly follow that route, and that is unfortunate. I still feel progress has been made esp over the last few years for a number of reasons: - Much of the new research is being done by neurologists instead of psychiatrists. - The recognition that FND...

My symptoms are definitely mediated by anxiety, AD's are given not as primary treatment, but to treat comorbid conditions, GAD in my case. @Mithriel: with the latest batch of imaging studies showing subtle structural changes, the label FND will undoubtedly evolve. Some of these studies...

Sorry for the late reply, quite a busy week and a Chrome-sync issue that caused the deletion of all my bookmarks! Over the last couple of years some hints for mechanisms in FND have been found, but nothing solid yet. Concerning the causes for FND, there are only correlations. I feel that in...

I'll dig up the studies on the Limbic System/stress tomorrow. As an addendum, I would like to see more FND research focused on neuro-imaging: trials that test patients before the start of their treatments and afterwards and see what (if any) changes on F-MRI etc

Of course prolonged stress is bad for any disease, and there is a substantial group of FND patients that does not report significant stress prior to the onset of symptoms, it's therefor definitely not the primary driver. I do agree that any MUS can be inherently more stressful, for all kinds of...

I came across S4ME over a year ago when I was still undiagnosed, and have lurked here ever since, because of the forums rigorous approach to the discussion on ME and related issues. I feel this is a good moment to give a patient's insight on the FND discussion. A little background: in march...