ESA QUERY ON MOBILITY CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME

Hello there,
i am confused could someone please clarify if you can walk over 200 metres repeatedly for a couple of hours, but only be able to do that for once or at most twice a week does that qualify for eligibility for points?

With thanks.

THANKS GORDON. FOR THE REST OF THE DAYS I WOULD BE MOSTLY IN BED AND GET UP TO WARM SOME FOOD, GO TO THE LOO, DO SOME HOUSEWORK AND WALK FOR VERY BRIEF PERIODS OF TIME - EG 5 MINUTES AND THEN RETURN TO BED. AND EVER WEEK OR SECOND WEEK I MAY BE ABLE TO WALK UP TO 10 MINUTES , ONCE OR TWICE IN THAT PERIOD.

Thank you Bis, i appreciate your time and info.

I have ME/CFS too. What you need to communicate is the consequences of activity – e.g., it takes you many times longer than a healthy person to recover from mental or physical effort. If walking means that you'll be confined to bed with pain and fatigue afterwards, or be left with too little energy for basic needs such as eating or getting to the toilet, then you shouldn't be considered reliably able to walk that distance.

It can be quite hard to explain all this – I certainly didn't have the vocabulary when I first became disabled by ME – but it helps to read up about it when you have a bit of spare energy. The ME Association has benefits guides, and there are social media groups and online forums for ME patients.