Do I have a medical condition?

[SEmyarse]

You'd think I'd know, wouldn't you?

I know I'm weedier than average, but I guess within the range of normal since I manage my job as a delivery driver - up to 17.5kg boxes, which are a struggle but I manage. I could never keep up with other kids at school, but I guess someone always has to come last? It just seemed to be who I am.

So I happily plodded through life until covid and suddenly got contact from the gp early on to say I was eligible for the vaccine in the first wave due to my vulnerability caused by my health condition. Eh? What's this about? So I contacted them and a nurse dug into my health records and got back to me, told me it was because of my diagnosis received in 1978. Eh again? Yes apparently I had a diagnosis of hypotonia, which she then told me was general known as floppy baby syndrome. Well this was quite funny being told I have floppy baby syndrome aged 44! I now get contacted all the time about flu vaccines etc, which I never got before, so not sure why it took covid for them to notice me.

Anyway, it seems fairly irrelevant now, but I was just reading a thread about having to declare all health conditions for insurance etc. Do I have to include this? And more importantly (although I got away with it) would I have been refused an insurance claim previously for not declaring a health condition that I had no idea I had?

Well two of my adult children were diagnosed with hypotonia as infants and have not been considered at higher risk for anything . Well one is, but that's because he also has autism and Ulcerative Colitis and is rightly classed as having a disability, but the other no...and neither have been asked about their hypotonia since they could walk (late!)
My DS2 had his actually significant conditions ignored by the NHS til well after Covid was over also, and has been hassled for vaccines ever since, but we have never had any issues with holiday insurance or anything else.
Might declare it if he was climbing Everest maybe, but as he is still a bit floppy I doubt he'll be doing it!

Yeah I don't generally give it much thought beyond finding it funny. But I read someone else's thread about being refused an insurance claim due to IBS investigations years ago, even though the claim was for appendicitis. And it suddenly occurred to me that should something have happened to me when visited Chile that I might have been refused treatment even though I had no clue it existed. And should I declare it going forward?