Formication: What Is That Sensation In My Face?
My face always feels like I have something crawling on it and I don't often get a break from it.

Writer. Mother. Living with trigeminal neuralgia, polycystic ovaries and a rare eye disease.
My face always feels like I have something crawling on it and I don't often get a break from it.
I have faked being healthy, sometimes unsuccessfully, but usually pretty well, for the last seven and a half years.
Obviously, I got rejected again. I received the letter in the post dated exactly one month after my first letter, not the 12 weeks I was told it may take.
Simply, the fact I am 'young' means that I should be perfectly healthy. That's great, in theory. Unfortunately, I think someone forgot to tell my body that, because sometimes, I feel like I'm falling to pieces.
I am, in his words, sledgehammering myself with medication for the very small amount of pain relief I'm actually getting from the medication.
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I am accused of being dishonest about needing help with medication and my finances, because I could communicate my medical history to the nurse on the phone.
I was asked could I prepare food, which I can. I wasn't asked if I could eat the food.
The phrase 'occupational health' seems to send people running and there's such a negative association with being 'managed out' of their employment.
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