Financial Support Advice please.

Hiya all...

This is the first time I've ever seen this site and I'm glad I found it. Hopefully my 28 years of mistakes will be able to help someone on here NOT make the same ones!!!

Now for my question...

About 7 or 8 years ago I had a stinker of a hypo in the early hours and as such went into a fit, bounced out of my bed and twisted my neck. I only assume this is what happened as when I came to I was lay awkwardly on the floor next to my bed and dripping with sweat. My BM even then was 1.4 so what I must have been earlier I dread to think.

At the time I was working in a hospital pharmacy using an isolator units and eneded up taking time off. In fact I ended up taking so much time off they laid me off. Since then my neck problem developed into having a bad back and limited arm movement through pain in my shoulders and I get bad headaches almost constantly.

Now I'm on Incapacity benefit and am struggling to make ends meet, having had debts - which were payable then with a wage - but now are hard to keep up with. I've never claimed anything in my life, nor did my parents when I was younger and feel embarrassed about asking this, but could anyone out there advise me of anything I may be able to claim now as things will only get worse before they get better!

Thanks for any help provided...

All the best,

ThunderBolt!

Hanging around in a marquee... Isn't that loitering withintent?!?

Thanks for all the feedback folks... Wasn't expecting this much as it seems - or rather appears - to be a relatively small forum. None-the-less, I'm more than pleased with the response.

I'll do as suggested and look into DLA.

I was under physio for a while, but they say that I just have to wait and see now how, and if it develops. I also saw 2 specialists shortly after the event but they couldn't decide if it was more likely to be a disc problem or something else and it seems so long ago now that I can't even remember what the "something else" was!!!

Also, an extra thanks to ChocFish... I may well take you up on your offer when I get the form underway. You may live to regret making it! Heheh.

I'll let you all know how things go. Thanks again, LD!

Hanging around in a marquee... Isn't that loitering withintent?!?