migraines and ESA50 form

Has anyone got some good advice on how to fill in the new ESA50 form for someone like me who suffers severe debilitating migraines on a regular basis.I am currently signed off sick with this condition and need to complete my form too continue getting ESA but the questions are not relivent for my condition,please can anyone help ?

Hi Twiggy, welcome to the forum.

Please read the guides here . The questions on the form are not relevant to any condition!

ESA is based not on your disability but how your disability affects your day-to-day living.

Good luck

Derek

Thank you for your quick response.
I have the notes to help me fill in form but my main problem is that the ESA50 form I find is for continous ailments and my condition varies from day to day or even hour to hour.

How do I fill in the form if one day i'm fine but possibly the next week I can't get out of bed because of a migraine, as questions seem to be for contineous illness.

Twiggy it is so hard when you live with conditions that vary so much, and can vary within the day. I live with two chronic medical conditions and one is a form of migraine and I too am about to start filling in the ESA50.

Hi, Twiggy

Many of the questions have an 'it varies' tick-box and a space to write extra information. Make maximum use of this - add extra sheets if need be. And some of the Points Descriptors include frequencies e.g. once a month, more than three times in the last month, or suchlike.

Have you read the B&W guide on how to claim? You can download it from the members area. It tells you exactly what the descriptors are that lurk behind the questions on ESA50. Etc.

Andy.