Inside a CPAD Assessment II: When an Insurer Tests Your Ability to Work with ME

The follow up session to my CPAD assessment for ME was effectively a carbon copy of the previous session, just without the introductory interview and history data collection. Structure of the assessment The session had four parts, in this order: Check on how I was feeling after the previous session and what I had done in the interim period Blood pressure and heart rate checks. Physical motor skills testing. Computerised cognitive testing. Check-in This was a brief check-in on what I did after the first session, how I was feeling and if I had any symptoms of note. I went to the supermarket with family and did the regular food shop, played a few games with family and watched some football and had a work meeting. All pretty normal stuff without any symptoms of note. I imagine someone with more severe symptoms would describe rest, post-exertional malaise and as the symptoms per person and per trigger seem so varied - it would provide an opportunity to explain the impact of the first…

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