I got back everything I was entitled to in April which is all the benefits except for higher rate mobility. At the time pretty much all my joints were malaised except for my ankles.
But now just 2-3 days ago my ankles decided to also crap out, and both swelled up with what I believe is called Oedema and now I have to hobble everywhere and need a stick to even get around in my house.
While the swelling has subsided now and I've been chugging on my tramadols, both ankles have still been left very weak and sore, and from how the rest of my joints are with my underling hypermobility syndrome, these issues tend to become permanent and don't go away, like the previous most thing that happened was both sides of my jaw popping out of place and developing TMJ from just eating chewy cereal oats in milk.
With how difficult these benefits are, it's not even worth it for me to risk challenging it again to try and get higher rate mobility added. My current award lasts for 3 more years and it would be best to leave it until that expires and then redo it as usual.
Doctors / NHS are useless when it comes to such a genetic joint 'disorder' - my last GP felt the need to berate and lecture me for needing to ask for more prescription opiates and both ordered a pain clinic medication review and had to tell me that my underlying hypermobility isn't a disease but a 'condition', yet the issue being that the piece of shit didn't even understand how all my joints have been crippled by it by the age of 36 and since I was in my early 20s.
And because of what I said to to my last GP practice over this, I'm now banned from them all and only get s shitty telephone only service, which I'm still waiting to appeal.
I got back everything I was entitled to in April which is all the benefits except for higher rate mobility. At the time pretty much all my joints were malaised except for my ankles.
But now just 2-3 days ago my ankles decided to also crap out, and both swelled up with what I believe is called Oedema and now I have to hobble everywhere and need a stick to even get around in my house.
While the swelling has subsided now and I've been chugging on my tramadols, both ankles have still been left very weak and sore, and from how the rest of my joints are with my underling hypermobility syndrome, these issues tend to become permanent and don't go away, like the previous most thing that happened was both sides of my jaw popping out of place and developing TMJ from just eating chewy cereal oats in milk.
With how difficult these benefits are, it's not even worth it for me to risk challenging it again to try and get higher rate mobility added. My current award lasts for 3 more years and it would be best to leave it until that expires and then redo it as usual.
Doctors / NHS are useless when it comes to such a genetic joint 'disorder' - my last GP felt the need to berate and lecture me for needing to ask for more prescription opiates and both ordered a pain clinic medication review and had to tell me that my underlying hypermobility isn't a disease but a 'condition', yet the issue being that the piece of shit didn't even understand how all my joints have been crippled by it by the age of 36 and since I was in my early 20s.
And because of what I said to to my last GP practice over this, I'm now banned from them all and only get s shitty telephone only service, which I'm still waiting to appeal.
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