Woman, 25, left unable to walk or talk after ‘work stress’ triggered brain condition that causes 25 seizures a day

A WOMAN was near incapable to locomotion and speech aft "work stress" triggered a uncommon neurological information which causes up to 25 seizures a day.

Emily Newman, 25, from Sussex, was successful the "best shape" of her life, focusing connected fittingness and enjoying newly-wedded bliss with her hubby James Newman, 28.

However, a abrupt seizure that led to her being rushed to infirmary marked the opening of an unexpected and life-altering journey.

Despite galore scans and tests, medical professionals were initially baffled by her condition.

It wasn't until Emily faced terrifying bouts of paralysis, rendering her incapable to determination her legs for up to 8 days, that she sought a backstage diagnosis.

She was diagnosed with functional neurological disorder (FND) - a information that causes problems with the encephalon sending and receiving information.

Doctors judge her abrupt symptoms were brought connected by "work stress".

Emily present struggles with slurred speech, tic attacks and has to usage a walking instrumentality oregon wheelchair to get around.

She said: "My code is delayed and slurred. Sometimes I can't pass astatine all.

"If my code goes it comes backmost successful 3 to six hours. I person tics arsenic well.

"I person tic attacks. The different time I was progressively hitting myself for 2 hours. It was truly painful."

Emily said her symptoms permission her household "terrified" and she present has 10 seizures connected mean a week.

She said: "Last week I had 25 successful 1 afternoon."

Emily, who works successful finance, added: "It's specified arsenic dire information and it's not what I expected my beingness to beryllium astatine all.

"I'm going done grieving antithetic parts - the beingness I thought I was going to live, the beingness I'm presently surviving and before."

Emily besides struggles with postural tachycardia syndrome (PoTS) - wherever the bosom complaint increases aft getting up - and had enactment her "fainting" episodes down to that.

She said: "I was convulsing. I thought to myself 'it's that'."

But erstwhile she arrived location aboriginal that time she had different 3 seizures and called an ambulance.

Doctors thought it could beryllium MS truthful Emily was tested to regularisation that retired but they were baffled erstwhile that didn't uncover what was wrong.

She said: "The week aft I had a seizure lasting six to 8 hours. I got bouts of paralysis.

"I was paralysed successful my legs for 8 days. I thought 'I can't unrecorded my beingness similar this'."

Emily decided to spell and spot a backstage doctor who told her she had FND successful December 2023.

She said: "He said determination is simply a 33 per cent accidental it volition get better, 33 per cent accidental it volition get worse and 33 per cent accidental it volition enactment the same.

"He asked if I had been done thing traumatic but I said thing particularly.

"He asked 'were you nether a batch of enactment stress?' "I said 'yes'."

Emily doesn't person the funds to wage for immoderate treatments but FND presently has nary cure.

But she is trying to enactment arsenic affirmative arsenic she can, adding: "I'm trying to bash everything I tin successful antithetic ways. You effort and instrumentality each time arsenic it comes.

"I inactive privation to beryllium maine and beryllium who I am."