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Preparing food
Daily Living
8 points possible
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Your fibromyalgia causes chronic pain and fatigue that make it unsafe to stand at the worktop for more than 5 minutes. This places you under descriptor 1f - cannot prepare and cook a simple meal [8 points], because the reliability criteria (safely, repeatedly, to an acceptable standard) fail on the majority of days.
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"My fibromyalgia makes it unsafe to prepare hot food on most days. I can stand at the worktop for about 5 minutes before the pain forces me to sit down, and my grip weakens without warning. On 14/02/2026 I dropped a hot pan and burned my hand - my GP has this on record. I have a perching stool and adapted utensils with thick handles, but even with these I still need my wife to cook hot food 4-5 days a week. When she works late I just go without a hot meal. I cannot prepare a simple meal safely or to an acceptable standard, I cannot do it repeatedly without exhausting myself, and a simple meal takes me over an hour on the days I do attempt it."
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