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Anxious about PIP review

This discussion was created from comments split from: Hi, my name is Annieanne!.
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Ii have just sent in my review forms for pip as it ends October next year I'm really anxious what my results might be.
Nothing has really changed,
I have cervical spondylosis also my c1 and c2 are damaged besides 6&7
It runs down to my sacrum area.
Also have bulging discs stenosis around my caudra equina causing loss of being very mobile and scoliosis,
Causes digestive problems .
Have hypermobity in some joints down my spine have DDD.
Have bursitis and tendonitis which causes pain in my hips,. Shoulders , elbows, currently frozen shoulder again in my right side.
Also was diagnosed with fibromyalgia over 10 years ago which then had no idea what it was .
Suffer with chronic migraine (under migraine clinic)
I managed to work till 2015 when I lost the feelings in my legs while driving home, I don't know how I got home but I did in 2nd gear.
That's when I was took to hospital and found out vertibras had crumbled and my nerves had got squashed.
Had spine injections since but didn't help, I can't have operations to help incase it causes more problems.
It does cause me to get depressed as I was so independent.
I'm really housebound now. Do use a powerchair when the weather is nice and walking aids to get round the house.
I'm under pain clinic to help with pain. I do have medications to try help.
At the moment I've got my leg in pot , myself trying to do normal , took my little dog to a play session and I only got knocked over by another dog that lead to getting my leg broken. Now in full leg pot.
So lost every little bit of mobility I did have.
12 weeks in pot but might be getting it changed to a brace in a few weeks. The large bone below my knee got broken. I do have osteoarthritis also .
I just wanted to do normal .
Nurse has told me it will take over a year for my knee to stop swelling up when I try to use my leg.
I'm sorry for ranting on
This pot is making my spine more painful at the moment.
Decided to try CBD from Holland & Barrett's. It's helping to take the edge off.
I know they're is people in worse situations then myself.
But I feel so alone and hate being in this body. I was the one that did the looking after almost all my life, now it's myself that needs looking after.
It's really difficult to accept.
I do worry I have to travel if I have to go to an assessment as even the bumbs in the road hurt and roundabout are awful .
I did have a home assessment the first time round but have been told that now make you travel outside of your own city and don't do home visits now.
Is that definite .
Sorry for writing so much.
Thank you
Ann