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Fibromyalgia and an Ill-Health Early Retirement Pension

If you suffer from fibromyalgia, you may find it difficult to continue working because of the potentially debilitating symptoms, and this can cause financial difficulties. If you are currently paying into a pension, you can only access the money from age 55. However, you may be eligible to claim an ill-health early retirement pension before then, and this will allow you to continue to receive an income.

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What is an ill-health early retirement claim, and can you claim it for fibromyalgia?

If you are unfit or unable to work due to fibromyalgia, you can claim an ill-health retirement claim, otherwise known as being ‘medically retired. This allows you to receive your pension benefits before the age of 55 if you are unable to work due to a permanent illness or condition. You can also make a claim if your fibromyalgia dramatically reduces how much you could potentially be able to earn.

How fibromyalgia can affect your ability to work

Everyone experiences fibromyalgia differently. Some people are able to continue working and complete tasks normally, occasionally suffering from flare-ups’. However, for some, the condition can be debilitating, making it extremely difficult, and sometimes even impossible, to continue working. Symptoms can be so severe that it causes difficulty in completing even day-to-day tasks and commonly include widespread pain and tenderness, headaches, fatigue, cognitive problems, and extreme sensitivity. There is currently no cure, but medications and other techniques are used to manage the pain.

Symptoms of fibromyalgia, such as extreme tiredness, problems with mental processes such as memory and concentration, muscle stiffness, and widespread pain can cause difficulties working long hours, especially in jobs that require physical work. Too much physical and mental stress on the body can cause severe flare-ups and even exacerbate the condition. It is important to avoid working at a job that can have a negative effect on your health.

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Making a claim

Before making a claim, you may want to request that your employer makes adjustments to your workplace to enable you to continue working to the best of your ability. As long as they are considered reasonable adjustments, you have the right to make these requests to prevent you from being disadvantaged at work. This can allow you to continue working for longer and enable you to earn an income that may be beneficial to your mental health. These changes may include your employer offering you flexible working hours, additional rest breaks, and task rotation to combat the common symptoms of fatigue. They may also reduce the number of physical tasks required of you, shorten your hours or allow you to work from home. Furthermore, they may amend and change your work duties if your doctor believes that they might exacerbate your fibromyalgia.

In order to make an ill-health early retirement pension claim, there are certain criteria you need to prove. You need to demonstrate that you are permanently incapable of returning to work and that there are no other medications or treatments that can be explored to allow you to return to your job before the normal pension age. You will also need to show that you cannot work at a similar alternative job.

How to make a claim

If you make a claim, the first step is to complete the ill-health early retirement pension application. You can receive this from your pension scheme. You will need medical proof which you should receive from a consultation with a rheumatologist who fully understands fibromyalgia. They will give an expert opinion on whether they believe you are able to work or permanently unfit to carry out the duties required of you at work. Your employer will then be required to confirm that ill health is the only reason you are making this claim and retiring.

With a report from a professional, you have very reasonable prospects of being able to claim an ill-health early retirement pension. However, there is a possibility that your claim may not be successful, but it is possible to submit an appeal and potentially receive an ill-health pension with new medical evidence.

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12/14/2022
Patient Questions: Answered related to Fibromyalgia

Question:
I have had fibromyalgia for some years. I would like to address the illness and get some help in managing pain levels better, any advice?

There are many steps you can take when it comes to managing your fibromyalgia. To start, choose activity wisely. Exercise regularly, but do not overdo things. Set personal limits, and always remember to take a rest. Try your best to remove yourself from situations that are likely to cause stress as this can aggravate pain, and modify your working environment to better suit your situation. During a flare-up, do less, take warm baths or use ice — whichever works best for you. It is also a good idea to read up on some simple mindfulness techniques such as meditation, deep breathing, or visualisation — as many patients see relief from these practices.

With several years of experience treating patients with Fibromyalgia, The Chronicillness.co team truly empathise with the obstacles patients face on a daily basis. We are constantly taking new research and information into consideration when finding the correct treatment path for our patients. We believe in a multidisciplinary approach comprised of tried and tested measures to effectively lower and manage symptoms for a better quality of life.

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Question – Ethel from Gateshead asks:

What are trigger point injections, and how are they most effective (i.e. all over the body pain or more targeted trigger points?)

There are a number of different types of trigger point injections including dry needling (acupuncture), and wet needling (with local anaesthetic/ local anaesthetic plus steroid or botox).

Trigger point injections are thought to work by causing local relaxation of muscle fibres, leading to a reduction in tension and a reduction of afferent pain traffic back to the spinal cord. They also release endorphins in a number of patients, which gives an overall analgesic effect. They are most useful when there are specific targeted trigger points, rather than when patients have widespread all over body trigger points. The aim is to shrink down the area of trigger points to the smallest area, before using trigger point treatment.

Question – Sam from Watford asks:

If someone has all over body pain, can treating the worst affected area with trigger point injections help the other areas?

Yes, in some cases this can be effective, although this is always on a case by case basis for which patients need to be fully, medically assessed. Various treatment options must be reviewed and discussed in person with the patient, so they can make an informed decision as to the best course of treatment.

With several years of experience treating patients with Fibromyalgia, The Chronicillness.co team urges patients to consider trigger point injections as a highly effective treatment options with little to no side effects.

Question – John from Edinburgh asks:

What are the main benefits of TPI’s and can successful TPI’s result in lower requirements for oral drugs?

The main benefits of trigger point injections include reduction in pain, spasms, and analgesic requirements, in addition to improvement in overall functions. If and when trigger point injections (either dry or wet needling) is effective, this can indeed lead to a lowering of oral, analgesic medications.

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12/13/2022
Suffering With Fibromyalgia As A Result Of An Assault
I was injured, but not in an accident. Somebody picked an argument with me and then punched me hard. I gradually got over the initial injuries (including a neck injury) but then went on to develop Fibromyalgia.

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- Do I have a claim?
- Who would it be against (the attacker has no money and is not insured)?
- How much is the claim worth?
James

Dear James,

As the victim of an assault, you can bring a claim to a government body called the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA). They will compensate you if your claim was notified to them within 2 years of the assault. Your actions, conduct, and character will be taken into account, and therefore if you have previous criminal convictions the compensation will be reduced. The fact that the attacker is not worth suing does not matter because the government is paying you.

The scheme is not very generous. There is no mention of Fibromyalgia in its tariff of injuries, but a permanent moderate disabling disorder attracts an award of £8,200. If it is seriously disabling and permanent, the award is £22,000. Your fibromyalgia would come into one of those two categories. Compare, this though, with the guideline amount of fibromyalgia arising from a normal accident. That is £22,350 to £42,000.

You should bear in mind that with a normal accident claim and a CICA claim additional sums will be paid for items like past and future loss of earnings, care supplied by others, necessary equipment, and expenses. These can often far exceed the amounts paid for the actual injury and illness.

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12/13/2022
Fibromyalgia sufferers finally acknowledged by the USA

The New Year is off to a great start already, as fibromyalgia sufferers in the U.S. have finally been acknowledged. As 2015 came to a close, fibromyalgia received its own official diagnostic code in the ICD-10-CM codes in the U.S. ICD-10-CM stands for International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification. This is a list of diagnostic codes used for medical reporting in the U.S.

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The ICD-10-CM is based on the ICD-10, the statistical classification of disease published by the World Health Organization. ICD codes are used by everyone in the healthcare industry, such as doctors, insurance companies and government agencies. They are used to identify and classify diagnosed diseases and conditions.

Prior to the official code, when diagnosing a patient with fibromyalgia, doctors had to use a general code, which could include any muscle pain or inflammation. However, now FM is recognized as a distinct entity with its own code—a meaningful and exciting change for all who suffer.

The fact that fibromyalgia has its own diagnostic code now makes it impossible for anyone to insist that fibromyalgia isn’t real. Both the World Health Organization as well as the U.S. Government have given it unquestionable legitimacy.

Additionally, a distinct diagnostic code will improve consistency in fibromyalgia research, as the data for many observational studies is gathered by tracking diagnosis codes. Without its own diagnosis code, fibromyalgia studies have sometimes been hindered by inaccurate data from the inclusion of patients that did not actually have FM.

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12/12/2022
Insurance Company Have Rejected My Income Protection Claim

I have been turned down on my income protection claim because of a report commissioned by my insurance company from a company doing CPAD (chronic pain abilities determination). The tests were conducted by an osteopath who is also a functional capacity assessor. I have been unable to locate details of any clinical trials on CPAD, and have found no evidence that the test has been medically proven nor that a CPAD assessment has been published in a peer-reviewed medical journal. Is CPAD medically proven?

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Noris

Dear Noris

I have not come across CPAD, but the clue to this is that the osteopath is a functional capacity assessor. The tests that you have had to undergo sound very much like functional capacity assessments.

These assessments are notorious among fibromyalgia sufferers. They are often very technical, complex, and detailed to the point where the reports are extremely hard to understand. The crucial point is that such assessments have very little relevance to fibromyalgia sufferers. They may well be extremely useful in evaluating functional impairment in those with structural musculoskeletal damage, but fibromyalgia sufferers will generally have entirely normal musculoskeletal structures. Their difficulties are the constant symptoms of pain, stiffness, and feelings of weakness.

Therefore, fibromyalgia sufferers may well be able to carry out many of the tasks, slowly and in pain as a one-off activity, but that is very unlikely to translate into being able to do these normal daily tasks on a regular and sustained basis. In other words, these types of tests are not a fair reflection of the functional impairment of the fibromyalgia sufferer. It is also true to say that on the day of the assessment the fibromyalgia sufferer may have fewer symptoms than on other days.

My advice is to try to avoid undergoing these assessments wherever possible. Insurers should be told that they are simply not meant for fibromyalgia sufferers. If the insurer insists, however, the assessments may have to be done, but it is then always advisable to have a report from a consultant rheumatologist who would be able to comment on your ability to sustain activity and who is a “bigger hitter” than the osteopath or similar who carries out the functional capacity evaluations.

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12/12/2022
Fibromyalgia syndrome: 4 ways to cope with the pain

Fibromyalgia syndrome causes widespread pain and stiffness in the body which gets worse as the day progresses, leaving you feeling weak. This syndrome can have a huge impact on how you lead your life on a day-to-day basis. A range of treatments are usually prescribed for long term management of fibromyalgia pain including physical therapy, psychological therapy and drugs.
Below are some useful coping techniques to help you manage the pain on a day-to-day basis.

Hydrate yourself

That clear liquid we take for granted every day can actually help to relieve the symptoms of fibromyalgia. Did you know that fatigue and headaches can be caused by dehydration? Our adult bodies are made up of approximately 70% water which evaporates through breathing, sweating and other natural bodily functions. Drinking water helps to flush all the toxins through your liver and kidneys and out of the body. Aim for at least 8 glasses each day – being hydrated will help to fight off fatigue. If you don’t like plain water try a squeeze of lemon juice or lime to add some flavor.

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Get some sleep

Fibromyalgia sufferers tend to have disturbed sleep – research has shown that sleep deprivation can cause widespread pain and chronic daytime fatigue. The key to reducing fatigue is quality sleep. Unfortunately, it’s a double edged sword as the pain makes it harder to sleep but sleep helps to relieve the pain.

You can encourage a better night’s sleep by setting a regular time for both going to bed and getting up each day. Make your bedroom a cool, dark, distraction free space and avoid drinking caffeinated drinks in the evening. If you feel the need to use a computer before bed you should try and restrict it to at leapt an hour before you go to sleep. If you find your thoughts are what keep you awake you can try keeping a notepad beside the bed and write down the thoughts you have and listen to relaxing music to unwind your mind. This is an effective technique for reducing anxiety.

Take a bath

A study in Rheumatology International (2008) confirmed hydrotherapy as a method of relieving the painful symptoms of fibromyalgia. Warm water helps to circulate the blood, reduces the pressure placed on joints and helps to relax the muscles (and the mind). Whilst a hydrotherapy pool isn’t a luxury available to everyone on a daily basis, instead you could have a long, warm bath in the evening to help soothe your muscles.

Keep moving

We’re not suggesting that you go and sign up to a 5k race, but research has shown that gentle exercise plays an important role in helping to break the pain cycle, reduce stiffness and improve the symptoms of fibromyalgia. If the pain is bad, it may not be possible to exercise much but starting slowly with a few easy stretches, then working your way up to doing more is a good way to ease into it. Gentle exercise like yoga, walking or swimming will all increase your heart rate. Start out slowly and for short periods of time, then as you are able, work up to 30 minutes a day if you can.

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12/11/2022
Teacher Wins Ill-Health Retirement Pension Case

Ronty Rhodes Solicitors recently represented Mrs. Adams who suffers from Fibromyalgia. She was dismissed on the grounds of ill health in July 2011 but received her last sick pay in March 2011. She submitted an application for Ill Health Retirement in August 2011 and the application was rejected in September 2011.

Mrs. Adams came to us in January 2013 to instruct us to appeal against the decision on Teachers’ Pensions in January 2013.

We reviewed the various medical evidence, reverted to some of the experts, and prepared a full and comprehensive Letter of Appeal in February 2013. The appeal was successful in March 2013 with the application for Ill Health Retirement being accepted.

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12/11/2022
What it is like to live with Fibromyalgia?
I am a retired Author and Producer of large creative events and most recently a Paper Maker, Sculptor and Workshop Leader. My husband always said that I metamorphosis at various times throughout life. We married very young and have three children and four grandchildren.

I was first diagnosed about six years ago. Gradually as my Fibromyalgia symptoms became worse I have had to learn to give myself permission to simply play with materials in the studio and not feel I have had to achieve anything which I have found extremely difficult and I have been very grateful for friends who have encouraged me through playing with me so that occasionally I can make again. Even if I don’t feel like it, I do recognize that creativity is one of the key healing elements in making one feel more uplifted and human.

I’ve been going to start this article many times but each time I was about to commence the dominant worst characteristics of my Fibromyalgia change, flawing me and causing me to stop and draw upon inner strength to refocus and start writing yet again!

I have not tried to use medical language but leave that for the experts! Also, I’m never very sure on some aspects whether the medication that is helping some of the more serious symptoms are helpful with others but again rely on expert advice.

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Of course, all the other symptoms just keep perpetuating and even multiplying at times over the years and sometimes to me even seemingly replicating other diseases but I will come back to these.
Upon reflection over the years I consider the worse aspect living with Fibromyalgia is the aloneness. Nobody actually sits down with you and says “now tells me what is it like living with Fibromyalgia?” Nobody. People will say how are you today? But that is embarrassing. Do you really want to be known as someone who complains all the time? No! So, to inform a little you just mention localized pain and weakness sometimes.

When you have a medical appointment, you pick out the worst aspects at that moment of time and it is those that get treated but I am fortunate and have an excellent medical team who’ve heard them all before and so have an overall picture.

Each day is a challenge and current severe pain areas are in my arms, shoulders, neck and in mostly in the top and back of my head. I also have ongoing very bad pain in my back and hips which is brought on by standing mostly at the kitchen sink after a few seconds, walking or any movement in fact. Pain is extremely unpleasant and can cause a lack of functioning but it is not something I am frightened of and do not therefore retire to my bed. I do get up in the mornings as I believe in moving very strongly and rest between moving. This has been a problem in the past with other extreme health conditions so I try to gage the level sensibly!
At the moment I am not getting the pain in my legs and feet and toes only normal muscular after exercising. Neither in my hands and fingers. My toes have pins and needles. The shooting pains particularly in my breasts and stomach are also not occurring.

Starting at the top of my body sleep has been a very difficult issue and until recently due to medication I’ve only been able to sleep on average about 4 hours a night, now I sleep a little longer. I haven’t been able to cope with the computer for longer than 20 minutes at the most without feeling stressed or having a brain fog. Neither can I cope with flashing lights, bright light or loud noises and can feel dizzy easily. Memory loss is embarrassing to say the least.

I have awful indigestion although I eat little and very slowly and I frequently feel sick. This seems to be felt through heartburn or coughing. I am breathless very easily. I have gradually lost my enjoyment of food.
I feel as if I have a urine infection most of the time which again interrupts the night as I get up between 5 to 7 times a night and can’t go out without stopping frequently. My vagina is so sore and painful and sexual intercourse has been out of the question over the last few years.

My body temperature fluctuates excessively at times and for the first few years I felt hot all the time which was unusual, then this changed (which may have been due to medication I don’t know) to frequent hot flushes even if I want to go to the toilet and always at night time so feeling very menopausal. I have never been a sweaty person but during these very warm times I do sweat and it is quite sticky unlike usual sweat. It can feel as if sweat is trickling down my legs. I can go from very cold to very hot within seconds. Patches of my skin can sometimes feel as if they are burning.

I experience extreme itching all over my body at times and this can for me exceed the pain as it is so tormenting. Other times it just on my head, back areas and leg areas. Also. It can feel quite separately that there are insects crawling under my skin often in my legs. Another sensation is that I have experienced in the past is similar to shingles with similar stripes appearing that can be painful and itchy on my back and under my breasts for a few days.

I also woke up one day with a red rash on one eye which looked as if I’d been punched in the eye preceding a black eye and was told by a friend who is a medical officer to go straight to A&E where they had an Eye Hospital as my sight kept coming and going. They didn’t know what it was but said I should contact them day or night if necessary. It took nearly a week to completely disappear. My eyesight does occasionally waver and my eyes feel dry and itchy all the time.

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I also bruise very easily sometimes as red dots which turn blue and other times as a bruise that spreads.

Normal tasks like cleaning one’s teeth proves very painful whatever I try to alleviate backpain and having a bath is no longer a pleasurable experience so I always shower. This again means inwardly priming oneself up because of the effort taken particularly if I wash my hair. Do I try to keep my arms up in the air or do balance them against my body and bend right over which is going to prove the easiest on that particular day? Of course, not all days are this bad.

The frustration of being so weak was where I started and it was some time before diagnoses when I complained about pain too. One still hopes to grow stronger through exercise and it is wonderful to no longer be in a wheelchair thanks to meeting Dr Jenner who promised to get me into a better place which indeed he has and through his advice, medication, physical programmed within a year my wheelchair was stored in the attic! Together with my osteopath Victoria Latchem in Dartington, Devon where I live, they are rocks and I look forward to future times of accomplishing the peculiar things on my bucket list!

Each day no matter how I feel I always determine to be:
- – up and dressed no later that 9am and try to be earlier than this
- – make a list of tasks I want to accomplish even if some go over to the next day
- – go for a walk no matter how much pain knowing that gently moving the muscles will help for the next day
- – exercise if possible
Strategies are important too like doing the vegetables or similar jobs sitting down at a table or on one’s lap watching the TV to distract from discomfort.

However, with the added stresses of Covid–19 the fight to be positive is more difficult and depression is now an issue which affects me as an artist but also in the home. People are an antidote even if on zoom.

I could not cope without my wonderful husband who does know, asks questions and understand as much as anyone can what it is like to have Fibromyalgia living with me every day although he may dispute this. It is very difficult to see someone you love suffer and get frustrated even if they don’t say anything. I would almost say it is worse for him than me. He became like a carer when I deteriorated and therefore, I would say that if I was on my own further strategies would be necessary.

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12/10/2022
Is My Insurance Company Spying On Me?

If you are making a large claim for damages secret filming of you is given. It is very likely that the other side will try to obtain covert footage of you at some stage during your litigation. The purpose of the surveillance evidence is to try to catch you by showing you doing something that you have previously said you cannot do. Surveillance evidence is a powerful tool in the Defendant’s armory and sometimes it can have a devastating effect on a claim. If a claimant is caught lying, not only do they face the prospect of causing irreparable damage to their damages claim but, in some cases, they may also face the prospect of proceedings for contempt of court with the possibility of a prison sentence. We cannot (and would not wish to) help Claimants who are lying, but that is a tiny minority. In most cases, the situation is much greyer than that and the claimant may be entirely honest.

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Surveillance operatives will often attempt to obtain surveillance over a period of a few days. They will often turn up at your home address early in the morning and follow you throughout the day. You can be videoed in any public place such as a supermarket, GP surgery, or shopping center. There may be more than one surveillance operative involved in the operation. The Defendants will frequently “sit” on the surveillance evidence and choose to deploy it at the point in your case when they think it will cause maximum damage. The best way to counter the effect of any surveillance is to take steps before the surveillance occurs to make your claim “surveillance–proof”. This is a specialist area that requires very careful handling by your solicitor.

After the surveillance footage has been disclosed there is still much that can be done by a skillful solicitor. It may be necessary to involve expertise from specialist barristers and technology-type experts. In some cases, it may be possible to object to the Defendants relying on their surveillance evidence.

At Ronty RhodesSolicitors we are uniquely equipped to deal with difficulties arising out of surveillance evidence. This is because given the nature of our work a very high proportion of our clients are videoed. We have thus built up the expertise and contacts to give you the best chance of negating the effect of this sort of evidence.

If you are involved in a large claim and suspect that you are being videoed please contact us sooner rather than later. It is far better to make a claim “surveillance–proof” at an early stage than to try to undo the damage later.

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12/10/2022
Two-thirds of those with fibromyalgia also have depression

New research was carried out by healthizes in order to better understand it’s fibromyalgia community members. The online poll sampled 671 people, all diagnosed with fibromyalgia and the results have provided a valuable insight into the connection between fibromyalgia, depression and anxiety.

The healthizes survey revealed that the majority of fibromyalgia patients are also diagnosed with depression. Figures show that more than 63% of those surveyed stated they had been diagnosed with depression and 58% with anxiety.

The connection between the symptoms is a reciprocal one in that one makes the other worse. One person surveyed commented: ‘I have dealt with doctors, friends and family members that don’t even bother to hide their doubts, and even dismiss my symptoms and daily struggles.’

Of those surveyed, nearly 30% had experienced pain for five or more years before receiving a diagnosis and a surprisingly small 8% received a diagnosis within a year. Raised awareness of fibromyalgia could help to decrease this timeframe.

Those suffering with fibromyalgia and depression and/or anxiety should look to focus their efforts on making sleep a priority as well as getting regular gentle exercise and eating healthily in order to help improve the physical symptoms of fibromyalgia as well as mental health.

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12/09/2022