Dismiss this notification
PatientsLikeMe would like to remind you that your browser is out of date and many features of the website may not function as expected.
Please update your browser
for more security and a better experience.
Functional Movement Disorder (FMD) is characterized as an umbrella term for a wide spectrum of symptoms related to movement. The terminology and definition of FMD remains a subject of controversy, as there is a lack of agreement within the medical community about this condition.
How do members experience functional movement disorder?
Top 5 symptoms reported by people with functional movement disorder*
*Reports may be affected by other conditions and/or medication side effects. We ask about general symptoms (anxious mood, depressed mood, fatigue, pain, and stress) regardless of condition.
Top treatments taken by people for functional movement disorder*
Who has functional movement disorder on PatientsLikeMe?
Lithium carbonate wasn't helping ALS patients, and we learned it faster than the clinical trials did. Read about it in
Nature.
Insomnia is more common—in fact worse—for people with chronic conditions. Read about it on the
blog.
Interacting with other PatientsLikeMe members improves your health. Read it on
healthaffairs.org.
The severity of Parkinson's Disease symptoms changes faster than researchers thought, so clinical trials should be designed differently. Read about it on
JMIR.
Functional Movement Disorder (FMD) is characterized as an umbrella term for a wide spectrum of symptoms related to movement. The terminology and definition of FMD remains a subject of controversy, as there is a lack of agreement within the medical community about this condition.
Common symptoms reported by people with functional movement disorder
Reports may be affected by other conditions and/or medication side effects. We ask about general symptoms (anxious mood, depressed mood, fatigue, pain, and stress) regardless of condition.
Last updated:
Treatments taken by people for functional movement disorder
Let’s build this page together! When you share what it’s like to have functional movement disorder through your profile, those stories and data appear here too.
Got a question about living with functional movement disorder? Members in the forum might have the answers.
Compare treatments taken by people with functional movement disorder
Let’s build this page together! When you share what it’s like to have functional movement disorder through your profile, those stories and data appear here too.
Got a question about living with functional movement disorder? Members in the forum might have the answers.
Who has functional movement disorder on PatientsLikeMe?
1
new patients joined this month
44
say functional movement disorder is their primary condition