Over the coming months, he struggled to walk, experienced muscle spasms and pain and vision issues, leading to tests for multiple sclerosis and motor neurone disease - all of which came back negative.
He said his symptoms were dismissed as health anxiety, in part due to him not having a Covid diagnosis - something he urged the medical profession not to write off .
The company director said: You have got all these symptoms, you are not imagining them, you cannot breathe and my chest felt as if someone had set me on fire. I had a period of two weeks that I started to feel better, how wrong was I? Then the change came and it really impacted me and brought my life to a standstill.
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