I was physically paralyzed with heartache after a traumatic breakup

Heartbreak is never fun, but a woman’s relationship breakdown took a devastating turn after she lost the ability to walk following a breakup.

The TikTok user, who posts under Miss Nervy, was diagnosed with a functional neurological disorder just over six weeks ago and is now confined to a wheelchair.

The content creator initially shared her story using a series of slides detailing her experience before following it up with an in-depth video a few days later.

The 20-year-old said she felt tingling in her legs when she woke up one Monday morning, leading to her being unable to stand or walk.

She went to the doctor and they did a CT scan of her spine, which was clear, but she was admitted to the hospital because she couldn’t walk or stand.

“I wake up completely unable to move my legs or stand,” she recalls. “I’m really freaking out now, it’s not funny anymore.”

A few days later, she still couldn’t walk and this time was sent to the neurology department, where the doctor made a diagnosis.

“I was so heartbroken that I developed a neurological condition that caused this,” she said.

The student posted a follow-up video in which she answered some frequently asked questions about her condition.

“For the past month and a half, I’ve been either in a wheelchair or in a bed, as you see behind me,” she shared in a recently uploaded video.

The content creator said she had multiple MRIs, CT scans, X-rays, EMGs, as well as numerous blood tests, but found nothing physiologically abnormal.

“Everything went well,” she shared. “Everything was carefully considered.”

She was hospitalized for four days the first time she started experiencing symptoms, and eight days the second time, assuring viewers that doctors “checked everything.”

The young woman added that they also tested her eyes, but nothing was abnormal.

At the moment, the designer still can’t stand and said in a comment that her thighs resemble the feeling of your face when the dentist sedates you.

“A little numb, then starting from my knees it’s just constant tingling like pins and needles all the time,” she shared.

Functional neurological disorder (FND) is a neurological disease that affects the way the brain and body communicate.

According to Sheffield University Hospitals, Medical News Today and NORD, although symptoms can resemble neurological diseases, including those of multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease and epilepsy, and can be just as debilitating, they are not caused by a structural disease of the nervous system. but rather they constitute a problem with the “functioning” of the nervous system and are often described as “medically unexplained”.

People with FND appear to lose the ability to normally control or access their body. The “core wiring” of the nervous system is intact, but when people with FND try to use it to move, feel, or think, they cannot control it normally.

Its cause is poorly understood, but scientists have likened it to a problem in the brain that causes symptoms to persist after they first appear due to a physical injury, infectious disease, panic attack or of a migraine.

Depending on their condition, patients may receive physical therapy, psychological therapy, or occupational therapy – or a combination of both.