A man told he was going to die after being diagnosed with a terminal illness later discovered his symptoms had been caused - by his prescribed statin pills.
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00:00 My name's Paul Gill. I started struggling early 2023, January/February time, when I
00:08 realised I was really struggling to walk, particularly up hills, and also really struggling
00:13 climbing steps. I had lots of tests and eventually in June I was diagnosed with MMD. Thereafter
00:26 we had review meetings with the MMD team and after October I started slightly improving.
00:34 You know, I got stronger, more mobility, and I was ordered for a retest on my electrodes,
00:43 on the electro test at St Luke's, and amazingly on January the 25th I was misdiagnosed. It's
00:55 just unbelievable. So since my misdiagnosis I feel like I've got another chance. Obviously
01:08 the seven months prior to that they were very dark periods, but now we can look ahead. I'm
01:15 getting married in a couple of weeks and obviously that's going to be a huge celebration and
01:21 going on holiday thereafter. It really has just changed everything. Massively life changing.
01:33 The one big thank you, while I obviously was diagnosed with MMD, is the MMD team backing
01:39 me up and supporting me were incredible. That's everybody, dieticians, nurses, physios, they're
01:48 an amazing team and the support anybody with MMD gets is absolutely fantastic. Thank you.