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.

Writer. Mother. Living with trigeminal neuralgia, polycystic ovaries and a rare eye disease.
I was asked could I prepare food, which I can. I wasn't asked if I could eat the food.
I have lived with vision loss since early 2019 and I've learned a few things along the way.
Read more What I’ve Learned Living With A Visual Impairment Since 2019: The Vision Diaries
The phrase 'occupational health' seems to send people running and there's such a negative association with being 'managed out' of their employment.
Read more What To Expect When.. You Get Referred To Occupational Health
I have been a GP receptionist before and I always try to defend them when they get a bad rep, but this receptionist was the definition of useless.
I promise I tried to think of a better title for this blog post.
Am I overreacting? If you only consider the one thing I'm upset about, then.. probably. If you consider every other thing dripping into the bucket, then no and thank you for your patience with me when I'm having a day when something just pushes me a little over the edge at the end of it all.
If I was a fully able bodied employee, I would have been offered a desk upon my return to work in January.
Apparently around half of people who stop taking amitriptyline, who were put on it for a variety of conditions, state their reason for doing so was because of the weight gain.