Sick or not sick?

[jarhead123]

I work in a kitchen - 5 days a week 10.30-2. It’s a nice job but physical, lots of lifting, leaning, standing etc.

After various symptoms such as broken bones not healing well/at all, awful body pain, TMJ, IBS, anxiety and depression and excessive tiredness (I take 8 different tablets a day!) I am having a full blood test but the DR is now convinced I have fibromyalgia.

WIBU to be sick this week while my bloods are done & we then make a plan of how to help me/manage it going forward?

I am managing day to day at the moment, basically survive at work but then nap when home, struggle through the evening and am in bed by 8/8.30 in pain.

What do you think?

Would your kitchen be short staffed and colleagues struggle if you arent there?

I wasn't aware there was a blood test for fibro, I thought it was just the label they use when they've run out of other explanations? So usually follows lengthy investigation by specialists. Or comes straight away if they can't be bothered to investigate.

Has that all happened or is this a GP? Even if you get blood test results this week I don't follow how - even if they dish out a diagnosis - you will also have any meaningful plan by the end of the week in how to manage work. That's the kind of thing that usually takes longer and requires more specialist input, e.g. Occupational therapy.

If you're not well enough, then take the time, just be wary of thinking you'll have everything magically sorted out by the end of the week.

What kind of plan are you envisaging?

I need a blood test to rule anything else out, but the dr is expecting it to be clear and that I have fibro.

They’d get cover for me in the kitchen no bother.

I’m not expecting a magic wand, my dr said if it is fibro then he will be help me come up with a plan going forward to make my life more comfortable

If you are actually too sick to work then yes, of course take sick leave until you are well enough. However, if you are still able to work then you should. Has your GP signed you off sick? Surely if you are too unwell your GP would have signed you off already?