How do PIP assessors view Fibromyalgia?
Lemmons
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Hello to all on here. Thank you for allowing me to join this community. A little about myself, I was recently diagnosed after a terrible year of pain and fatigue with Fibromalygia, IBS and bursitus in both hips. Now I know what I am dealing with I can get on with adjusting to it and living my life. I have had to give up my 22 year career as a support worker whixh has been gutting to say the least and now on the rocky road of seeing what benefits I can get to help me. I am due for PIP assessment early in July and dreading it as I don't know how assessors view my conditions. Any advice would be greatful.
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Hi @Lemmons welcome to the community - the assessment is meant to be about how your impairments affect your life. You can look through this CAB site about filling in PIP forms, I know you are past that stage, but it is really handy for reading through exactly what each question means and to think about how you can answer.
We also have a video about PIP Assessments and the lady in it has hidden impairments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq5QV_SnkJs
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L have fibromyalgia and have had for over 20years some days l can not get out of bed with the pain l am waiting to go for my pip assessment l am 63 so l will be going soon the waiting is making me ill
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Hi @Lemmons . @Sam_Scope 's advice is spot on: don't think of the assessor as assessing the medical condition, but assessing how it affects you. As you know different conditions affect individuals in a huge variety of ways, and it's the difficulties and challenges you encounter that they will be assessing. The fact you have fibromyalgia is sort of secondary to the assessment: it's how the condition affects you that's the main thing. Hope this makes sense, and I hope you feel a little encouraged by this. Speak soon,
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Hi @Lemmons. A very Big welcome to our site & I do hope that we can offer you both "advice & support" I will echo all of the above!!!! I have got "Chronic Pain" & this reared its ugly head in 2005. My "SRS" on the "NHS" went horribly wrong & it didn't work "Great" Please please let me know if I I can help you further Steve.0
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