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My daughter is 30 years and has been diaognosed with pmr. She is a full time mother of 2 children 2 & 5 Can anyone advise if she would be eligable for any benefits as she will need help with childcare/housework.
I hope someone will be able to help
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Many thanks
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MrsO-UK_Surrey
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You have asked for help concerning eligibility for benefits, and if you look at the thread under the heading \"Benefits\" you will find some advice and even a poster called froggygran who has offered to help if anyone has problems with claiming. I'm sure your daughter's GP and Social Services will also be able to help, the latter especially with any aids she may need at home.
Do hope this has been of some help but do come back with any other queries in the future as there will be someone here who will be able to reassure you.
My very best wishes to you and your daughter.
MrsO
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I feel I have to reply to the post from weemissus re her 30 year old daughter. I was 47 when I was disagnosed after a few months of what I thought was a back related problem. My doctor did blood tests and within 2 weeks put me on 20mg of predisolone. The improvement was dramatic and I had my mobility back. I put on a fair bit of weight and I had the moon face. That was 3 years ago and gradually I have come down to 2mg a day. At the time my children were 8 and 11. I was a late starter!
I was working part-time and was always there to pick up the children after school. Since then due to my husbands unemployment I have started work full-time (funnily in the benefits department of the local council). Something I find very beneficial as it keeps my mind of my symptons and gives my colleagues some amusement when on a bad day I struggle to get off my seat. I try to keep as mobile as possible and even manage to play golf (badly but I was not very good before PMR). I feel I have got to beat it and not the other way round. I certainly have never been unable to do anything I did before but I do experience a great deal of pain on occasion. The worst time for me is when I wake up in the middle of the night with pain in all my leg joints. It is a horrible thing but I do not think that it is life threatening. I love this site and enjoy reading the other anecdotes and to realise I am not the only one suffering. Tell your daughter to log on. Can any of you please advise how to get my passwords back so I can log on again as I have tried and obviously not remembered the password and username.
MrsO-UK_Surrey
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If you contact the Moderators I am sure they will either be able to remind you of your user name and password or register you under a new one. You can send them a message by clicking the box marked \"Usergroups\" at the top of this page and then click on \"Moderators\" . Hope it works!
MrsO