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However, it is not that uncommon to get MS whilst relatively young. My daughter's best friend was diagnosed with it in her final year of uni. She has gone on to have a successful legal career and now a young baby (while still in her 20's). So these working adult sufferers are likely to be...

But not possible if you have caring or parenting demands (for example). Additionally, the 'final straw' may be an acute infection or other disease, an accident etc.

Other members have mentioned Fightback4justice as being very useful. I don't know much about this organisation, but hopefully members who do will post more information about them on this thread.

This organisation provides some of the best guidance for ESA and UC (as well as PIP and DLA). They have been mentioned and recommended in this forum across many threads and posts, but I'm putting a link here too so that it can be readily seen by members needing working age benefit advice...

This is the link to where you can find some information about the training the Health Care Professional who will be assessing you has received: https://www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/2014/september/wca-assessors-how-much-training

I am starting this thread to bring together all the links to guidance and advice for claiming the main UK disability benefits of Employment Support Allowance (ESA) and the new Universal Credit (UC). This thread is intended for general links and advice, not specific to any individual's...

Link to a free downloadable guide to getting Social Care in England: https://www.disabilityrightsuk.org/care-act-guide

Aren't they using absolute numbers rather than percentages though? So larger hospitals will seem worse when they may be better than some of the smaller Trusts.

I think you've hit the nail on the head there! My daughter recently said to me, 'All my friends' parents use cannabis for their pain now.' My immediate thought (as someone who has never taken illegal drugs) was, 'But how do they know where to get it?'

Fantastic work @dave30th!

If only we had Dr Who as a member of the forum...

Can we chip in and buy him a clock as a hint that it is time to retire?

Yes, being on this forum has made me much more astute to what is actually happening in the NHS. What seem like highly desirable approaches to most patients, such as the 'integration of services', 'extending community-based services' and 'treating people holistically', are in reality just...

When I was going through my divorce and had to discuss some of my ex's quite extreme behaviours with my solicitor, he warned me to 'not involve a psychiatrist' unless absolutely necessary. He then said they had a well-used joke in the legal profession that you could only tell the psychiatrist...

For some unknown reason I've always pronounced his name 'Weasel-ly'. I can't seem to change my internal voice's way of saying this when I read his name, even though I now know i've been spelling and reading it wrong. It couldn't be because my brain keeps making this connection whenever I think...

Going through the menopause hasn't improved my fatigue, headaches or pain levels, and the muscle stiffening/cramps in my limbs have actually got much worse. However, I do notice the difference in my mood and ability to control my emotions - I used to get terribly tearful for 2 weeks out of my...

It was my homour talking, I did know!

For me the evidence is inscribed in my body!

But it's not about convincing doctors and other health professionals whether ME is 'real' (mental illness is real as often quoted by SW et al), but about the NICE guidelines explaining clearly what having ME (or ME/CFS) means for a patient, that it is not just 6 months or more of 'chronic...

Well, another problem is 'modern' surgeries just assign patients to random GPs as their 'named doctor' on the practice system, despite the patient seeing a completely different one as their chosen, regular doctor. Whenever the hospital consultants have written to 'my doctor', the letters are...