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A woman who was told her flu-like symptoms were fibromyalgia was diagnosed with a brain tumour.

In 2022, Karen Tait, 57, began experiencing fatigue, feeling hot, achy, and clammy and within weeks her vision became blurry. She developed uncontrollable shakes at work, but her doctor said it was a viral infection.

Soon after, Karen became bedridden as she struggled to move, was sensitive to light and had to be cared for by her husband, Neil Day, 58. Doctors suggested she had fibromyalgia, depression, or menopause.

In November 2024, too ill to attend her routine MRI for previous vaginal cancer, her gynaecologist arranged another scan, which revealed a brain mass.

Karen underwent a successful craniotomy, and the mass was diagnosed as a grade 2 benign meningioma. She now req

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