{"id":183255,"date":"2025-06-14T08:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T08:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/183255\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T08:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T08:05:10","slug":"dentist-nathan-wedge-diagnosed-with-rare-condition-fnd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/183255\/","title":{"rendered":"Dentist Nathan Wedge diagnosed with rare condition FND"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Nathan Wedge, 33,\u00a0who has practices in Accrington and Burnley, and\u00a0lives in Smithills<\/a>, was diagnosed with\u00a0Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) in August 2024.\n<\/p>\n

\n The father-of-six first began to notice something was wrong with his health seven months earlier, when in January 2024 he was taken to hospital with a suspected stroke due to symptoms of left-hand-side weakness.\n<\/p>\n

\n (Image: Supplied)\n<\/p>\n

\n In a recent turn for the worse, on June 4, 2025, he had 17 Seizures in one hour while celebrating his wife, Carly’s, 40th birthday at Ribby Hall Village near Blackpool.\n<\/p>\n

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\n He was taken to hospital and has since not been able to walk or talk while\u00a0awaiting transfer from Blackpool Victoria Hospital to Royal Bolton<\/a> Hospital for Neurorehabilitation.\n<\/p>\n

\n \"NathanNathan after picking up a prize at the Bolton Men in Business Awards (Image: Supplied) FND is a signalling issue in the brain so tests like scans and bloods often appear normal, but the symptoms are\u00a0real.\n<\/p>\n

\n Nathan is still able to type, he told\u00a0<\/a>The Bolton News<\/a>:\u00a0“Life with FND can be greatly different from day to day, some days I can do everything I could before, but days like today it is so debilitating that I cannot even walk and currently am learning to talk again.\n<\/p>\n

\n “FND is under-researched and often misunderstood even by healthcare professionals. “When I was blue-lit to hospital, our ambulance crew and an A&E nurse had never heard of the condition.”\n<\/p>\n

\n In February 2024, the former military man was misdiagnosed with hemiplegic migraines before starting\u00a0with non-epileptic seizures in the May.\n<\/p>\n

\n Non-epileptic seizures\u00a0can mimic epileptic ones but are not caused by abnormal brain electrical activity.\n<\/p>\n

\n The 33-year-old was\u00a0having on\/off symptoms of left-hand side weakness and several seizures a month, up until things got worse this month.\n<\/p>\n

\n Married to his wife\u00a0for 15 years, Nathan credits her and his six children,\u00a0Kaidah,\u00a0Keane, Kiah, Kiki, Knalah, and Knight, as well as one grandchild, for his determination to carry on.\n<\/p>\n

\n He said: “It truly is due to the strength of the amazing people around me as to why I am able to continue everyday and fight to get better.\n<\/p>\n

\n “They inspire me to be the best version of myself and I will be forever grateful for every single on of them.”\n<\/p>\n

\n \"NathanNathan with Kiki,16 (Image: Supplied) He added: “I am determined to get back fighting fit and complete as much fundraising as possible, and if a marathon is on the cards, I will do it because I’ve never let anything stop me in life before, so I’m sure not going to let FND stop me.”\n<\/p>\n

\n Nathan\u00a0also won Outstanding Man of the Year 2025 at the recent Bolton Men in Business awards.\n<\/p>\n

\n And in March, he came first in his category (rock and roll) with his\u00a016-year-old daughter, Kiki, in Bolton’s Strictly Learn To Dance event.\n<\/p>\n

\n The dentist is determined to continue raising awareness of FND, with his TikTok following of more than 40,000, his main audience.\n<\/p>\n

\n Carly said: “Nathan has had hundreds of messages of support. He is a determined person, so positive and upbeat and he is creating TikTok content to try and raise as much awareness as possible.”\n<\/p>\n

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