Good News DLA Awarded At Tribunal.

Condor wrote:

lindaturner wrote:

Do not let your medical provider suggest that fibromyalgia is "all in your mind",fibromyalgia has an ICD-9 CM code, is defined by authoritative medical references, and has FDA-approved medications with labeled indications for treatment of the disease.

If your doctor tells you this, quote from the 2008, 1,319 page, 4th edition of RAJ'S PRACTICAL MANAGEMENT OF PAIN, devoting a fifteen page section on FM.

From the first two paragraphs in the subsection, Pathogenesis, we find, "The cause of FM is still unknown. Theories regarding its cause have undergone a gradual transition from a psychiatric process, as some still view it, to a muscle disorder, as currently classified in the Medline Index, to a genetically determined central nervous system disorder of chronic widespread allodynia, neuro-endocrine function, and cytokine participation, as it should now be considered. The situation with FMS has changed dramatically in just a few years of concentrated research. Where FMS patients were often viewed as healthy complainers, without any real abnormalities, or considered to be depressed somatizers, the psychiatric model is no longer adequate. Abnormalities in neuro-chemical mediators of central nervous system nociceptive function are clearly present in ways consistent with the patterns of symptoms."
this is just a small section copied from 'fibromyalgia uk' website


Mod Edit.

See link to Fibromyalgia UK website. :

www.fibromyalgia-uk.co.uk/

Hi again, thank you for all of the info,could you tell me where abouts on the fibro uk website I can find RAJ'S PRACTICAL MANAGEMENT OF PAIN and the quote please.than you so much best wishes Condor...
ps does anyone know if there is a time limit on when one can apply for DLA again? as I've been awarded lower care component until 2014 will that still stand or is there a risk of having that taken away when/if I apply again for DLA in the hope of having solid medical info stating Fibro is physical illness to try to get mobility awarded then if you follow me?.Or should I challenge the tribunals decision about fibro being mental in thier eyes,I have just written to tribunal services to ask for a full written account of my tribunal to see exactly what they have based thier decision on.

Hi See Fibro websites here. :

www.fibromyalgia-associationuk.org/

And here. :

www.fibromyalgia-uk.co.uk/

If you put Fibromyalgia into Google or similar search engine other sites will come up.

If you ask for a review of a current DLA award, the whole of you DLA will be looked at again, and there is a risk that an award could be reduced or lost.

This is covered in our DLA guides in the MEMBERS ONLY area.

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