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CIDP and its Variants  In our final blog on CIDP, we are going to have a quick look at the variants of CIDP. If you want more information on CIDP then have a look at some of our other blogs from the last few weeks.  List of variants  Acute Onset CIDP (A-CIDP) - A-CIDP...

What advice can we give someone impacted by CIDP? One of our main jobs here at GAIN is giving support and advice to people impacted by Inflammatory Neuropathies. It’s not always easy as everyone’s experience of CIDP is different. However, in this blog we are focussing...

The last few weeks we have been publishing blogs about CIDP, and in this week's post we are looking at the impact of CIDP.  Impact of the condition  CIDP can be a life-alterating condition that impacts on many aspects of your life. Without proper treatment (and in...

What is Living with CIDP like?  Many people want to know what to expect on their CIDP journey, and while it is difficult to predict and important to note that everyone’s journey is different, in this blog we wanted to highlight what living with CIDP is like. This post...

Last week the government announced a number of welfare and benefit cuts designed to save £5bn. We know that these announcements created a lot of anxiety across the Inflammatory Neuropathies Community, and with the Spring Statement announced in parliament today, we...

The UK Government has today (Tuesday 18th March) published a Green Paper called ‘Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper.’ This is a consultation paper that lays out the Governments plans around a number of key benefits and...

This is our fourth weekly blog about CIDP, a rare Inflammatory Neuropathy and autoimmune condition impacting around 600 new people in the UK each year. In previous posts we have looked at diagnosis and symptoms. This week we are looking at the treatments available for...