I'm on a sickness benefit with supplementary allowance. I barely get much at all though. Prices go up, but the benefit stays much the same.

Most of mine has been paying it off bit by bit. My father let me use his credit card, but I'm having to pay that off and it's agonisingly slow.

I barely ever see any doctor because I cannot afford to. When I do, that's pretty much it for me because i've got nothing left of my income for that week. I don't see anybody else.

My supplements are few because I cannot afford anymore. I got blasted by a family member for purchasing more DMSA, when I'm supposed to be paying off the credit card. DMSA is very expensive, but becuase of my symptoms after the last visit, I figured I may have inhaled mercury vapr in the office and wanted to see if it would help me. I just desperately wanted to feel more normal and really I couldn't afford enough of them to find out if they would have helped much or not.

So yeah, things get desperate. And my parents are not well off either. They certainly cannot help me, or they would.

There really should be more help for people in this situation. These things were not of our own doing.