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A woman who was confined to her bed for two years after medics dismissed her flu-like symptoms as fibromyalgia has been diagnosed with a brain tumour. Karen Tait, 57, started experiencing exhaustion, feeling feverish, aching, and clammy and within weeks her eyesight became blurred. ‌

She developed uncontrollable tremors at work, but her GP said it was a viral infection. Shortly afterwards, Karen became bedridden for two years, battling to move, hypersensitive to light, and looked after by her husband, Neil Day, 58 - and doctors suggested she had fibromyalgia, depression, or menopause. ‌

In November 2024, too unwell to attend her routine MRI for previous vaginal cancer, her gynaecologist organised another scan, which revealed a brain mass. Karen underwent a su

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