Hi, my name is Emjaye!

Emjaye
Emjaye Community Member Posts: 5 Listener
in Start here and say hello
Hello everyone my name is Mary and I was diagnosed with Type 2 Achalasia last year
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  • SueHeath
    SueHeath Community Member Posts: 12,388 Championing
    Good Morning @Emjaye welcome to our great group. I hope your well this Thursday morning.
    When your ready have a look around the site, we have lots going on, you can join in with any of the chats or ask your own question, any problems just ask someone is bound to be on line to give you a hand. 
    The coffee lounge under categories is a great place to meet some of the members, have general chats even play a few number games if you wish. Enjoy 
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  • Emjaye
    Emjaye Community Member Posts: 5 Listener
    Thank you, I sure will
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  • Alex_Alumni
    Alex_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,535 Championing
    Hello and welcome @Emjaye and thanks for telling us a bit about yourself :) 

    Let us know if there's anything we can support you with, and enjoy getting to know the community!
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  • Emjaye
    Emjaye Community Member Posts: 5 Listener
    Thanks Alex. I have one question and it's a question I have been researching since diagnosis with Achalasia. Is Achalasia considered a disability in the UK? Need someone to shed some light on this. I
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  • durhamjaide2001
    durhamjaide2001 Scope Member Posts: 15,450 Championing
    Emjaye said:
    Thanks Alex. I have one question and it's a question I have been researching since diagnosis with Achalasia. Is Achalasia considered a disability in the UK? Need someone to shed some light on this. I
    Hi I have also been researching it as well for you. It's a chronic illness which is classed as a disability. 
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  • Cartini
    Cartini Community Member Posts: 1,107 Trailblazing
    durhamjaide2001 said:
    Emjaye said:
    Thanks Alex. I have one question and it's a question I have been researching since diagnosis with Achalasia. Is Achalasia considered a disability in the UK? Need someone to shed some light on this. I
    Hi I have also been researching it as well for you. It's a chronic illness which is classed as a disability. 
    Hi - do you have any links that describe achalasia as a disability?


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  • Emjaye
    Emjaye Community Member Posts: 5 Listener
    Thanks, but it doesn't appear so to DWP, so I get on with looking after myself by myself. Thanks. Again. I'll continue to be apart of Scope and Thanks fir welcoming me.
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  • Emjaye
    Emjaye Community Member Posts: 5 Listener
    I too would like to see that link because I have been searching, only my my workplace OH told me it's classified as a disability 
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  • SussexMumof2
    SussexMumof2 Community Member Posts: 6 Listener

    Did you get any further with this? I have achalasia and it is incredibly disruptive to my life but due to it being so rare, it seems hard to convey the severity to DWP or my employer.

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