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Esca van Blarikom, Postdoctoral Researcher in Medical Anthropology, Department of Global Health & Social Medicine, King's College London

Diagnostic uncertainty: why losing a diagnosis can be as difficult as receiving one

Christina Applegate has spoken about the distress of learning that she had been misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis, despite continuing to experience debilitating symptoms. Featureflash Photo Agency/Shutterstock

When actor Christina Applegate revealed that she had been misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), she described the experience as “very unnerving” and “really confusing”.

For five years, MS had provided an explanation for her symptoms. Now, although those symptoms remained, the diagnosis that had helped her make sense of them was gone.

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