Hi all, excuse my ignorance but i cant understand all the abbreviation
on the site it would be very helpful to have a sticky that explain to a
gorm like me the full names of the abbreviation
kind regards John
Poll (MS43) suggested having a permanent thing somewhere on here to explain abbreviations and I’m pretty sure the webteam said they would do it, but nothing’s happened. Maybe one day?!
Here are a few more…:
RRMS: relapsing remitting MS
SPMS: secondary progressive MS
PPMS: primary progressive MS
PRMS: progressive relapsing MS
PwMS: people with MS
TN: trigeminal neuralgia
OH: occupational health (but also sometimes “other half”)
CAB: Citizen’s Advice Bureau
DLA: Disability Living Allowance
ESA: Employment and Support Allowance
hth: hope that helps
btw: by the way
I’m sure there are loads more, but it’s getting late!
Hth!
Karen x
It’s an alphabet soup – here are some more ingredients
DWP - Department of Work and Pensions
IB Incapacity Benefit
HB Housing benefit (Sometimes known as local housing allowance)
CTB Council Tax Benefit
NI National Insurance
WTC Working Tax Credit
OT Occupational Therapist
MS is a PITA (I just made this one up!) Pain in the a****
Jane
Hi, I see you got 2 or 3 replies with examples on. Sorry if us oldies rattle on with abbreviations. It annoys my hubby when I do it.
Can I/we help you with any ohters?
luv Pollx
Hi all,thanks for the reply i can now understand
a wee bit what folkes are posting
TTFN John
We were indeed going to have an abbreviations list for newbies. Please feel free to add any others here and we’ll compile them into a glossary.
Greg [admin]