What To Expect When.. – The Pain Corner

What To Expect When.. Your PIP (Personal Independence Payments) Application Gets Rejected: Stage One, Mandatory Reconsideration

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.

What To Expect When.. You Apply For PIP (Personal Independence Payments) For Trigeminal Neuralgia

I was asked could I prepare food, which I can. I wasn't asked if I could eat the food.

What To Expect When.. You Get Referred To Occupational Health

The phrase 'occupational health' seems to send people running and there's such a negative association with being 'managed out' of their employment.

What To Expect When You Have An Electromyography (EMG)

Yes, I had one of those painful nerve tests.

What To Expect When You Start Taking Amitriptyline

Amitriptyline is the medication I am asked about most often.

What To Expect When You Have An Ultrasound: The Ovary Episodes

I got a letter in the post explaining that I would need to prepare myself by drinking two litres of water one hour before the scan and a description of what would happen at part of the scan - a small 'wand', called a transducer, is placed a couple of inches inside your vagina to get a better picture of your insides. The procedure is painless and lasts around five minutes.

What To Expect When You Have An FFA or ICG: The Vision Diaries

During my journey to my diagnosis of acute zonal occult outer retinopathy (AZOOR), I was called in for a fundus fluorescein angiography (which is easier if we just call it an FFA!) and an indocyanine green angiography (ICG) and it was one of my stranger appointments, but definitely not the worst.

What To Expect When You Have An ERG: The Vision Diaries

It is absolutely impossible to focus your eyes for 30 seconds and to not blink. I don't know anyone who can hold their eyes open and focus on some images for half a minute at a time!