IB medical advice

LittleTinker

jimjams_mommy wrote: »

I got a letter today saying my interview is on friday (week today) should I ask for a home visit? or just brave it out and go? its a 9.ooam think I will struggle to get there with the train and bus. Not sure if DH can have another day of work.

Any advice?

Well i think that if you wanted a home visit, you should have let them know that before they made the appointment. I also didnt know that depression was one of the things they did home visits for.

jimjams_mommy

my cpn suggested the home visit after last week.

jules_2

Well I had a home visit and that was for depression!

black_paw

jimjams mommy how did it go ? yes they do ask how you got there.... what you feel like.... did some one come with you ,,,how long was the journey...that before they start !

TaBunny

Reading all this makes me feel very sick and shaky inside, I've not had any medicals (as yet). I've not worked due to disability for 4 years now but was on IS and was only made to change over to IB back in October. The woman I spoke to at the benefits agency asked me to send in my form from the dr saying I'd been 'signed off from work'. Well I didn't have one because I never got signed off, it just got to the point where I could no longer take the pain, take the getting up, getting dressed etc and so on (I'm sure there's people out there who understand what I mean) and so I packed up work and went down the local DSS and told them why and they put me on IS with a disability premium. Everything was fine until the new IB people started asking me for stuff. Anyway I went to see my GP and he said he felt it was all nonsence it's not like I can make up this blooming disease which I've had since I was 4 years old! He gave me a sign off slip for 6 months and told me that he would just re issue another when needed. The annoying thing is that when I finally got my initial assessment visit from the local IB team they told me that even if a gp has signed someone off they don't always take any notice of that and if they say I can work then they will stop my benefits. Well if they stop them then I still won't work coz I am in too much pain and no matter what they think they can re train me to do I'll still be in blooming pain like I am right now in my hands, neck, shoulders, arms just trying to type this which has taken me 20 mins. I've only written this little bit and now I feel like I want to be sick with pain from it and yet I am probably going to be deemed 'fit' for packing something into a box on some assembly line somewhere. I'm so worried and scared and all I want to do is cry and wish for an able body, I don't understand why I've been sick since I was 4, I've lost all faith in any 'higher' being and now am a total agnostic, I've lost heart and feel like I am just living each day for no reason. Sigh god sorry got quite down and off subject while typing. Sniff.

black_paw

o tabunny i know what it's like , have you been told what it is ?? as similar to you with pain. i had accident at work and over months went down hill , unable to bend ,dizzy, movement pain , i sat in doctor's in tears saying will not move from room unless he does some thing for me as not getting better and frighten to death ..well got to see consultant orthopaedic surgeon at hospital , went to his clinic 6 months had acupuncture ect. had blood tests for every thing, hearing test ,ear examination to see if thats where the lack of balance was ... no ...hydrotherpapy , physio x 2 , senior people in pain clinic ... x-rays .= cronic cervical spondylosis, fibromyalgia ,post-traumatic stress disorder..rated highly for depression and anxiety .... OMG least i know now ..i was ill .....never give up ..xx

crafty_carrot

Ive had a home visit medical and the doctor phoned for the appointment himself!! crafty carrot

TaBunny

Jamla wrote: »

o tabunny i know what it's like , have you been told what it is ?? as similar to you with pain. i had accident at work and over months went down hill , unable to bend ,dizzy, movement pain , i sat in doctor's in tears saying will not move from room unless he does some thing for me as not getting better and frighten to death ..well got to see consultant orthopaedic surgeon at hospital , went to his clinic 6 months had acupuncture ect. had blood tests for every thing, hearing test ,ear examination to see if thats where the lack of balance was ... no ...hydrotherpapy , physio x 2 , senior people in pain clinic ... x-rays .= cronic cervical spondylosis, fibromyalgia ,post-traumatic stress disorder..rated highly for depression and anxiety .... OMG least i know now ..i was ill .....never give up ..xx

god Jamla sorry to hear how awful you felt, hope you are doing better now. Yeah I have Rhuematoid Arthritis, has it since I was 4 well actually was diagnosed with juvenile stills disease, then 6 years ago also got told I've got osteo porosis and it's at worst level and I break bones just by sneezing ie ribs etc, then a few weeks ago got told I now have Costegen Mandibular syndrome or something like that basically it's my RA has spread to my skull I can no longer chew hard food and live off liquidy stuff, soft veg, chocolate (ah there must be a god lol) and ensures which are build up drinks. I've no idea why they want to build me up because since breaking my hip 5 years ago I've gone from a size 10 to an 18 mind you I did give up smoking too and I know I shouldn't say this and it was probably psycological anyway but I'm sure I was in less pain when I smoked, maybe it numbed it or maybe it's like a placebo. Anyway I'm not trying to advocate smoking just something I noticed. I'm also on meds for under active thyroid, well actually the drs killed my thyroid because mine was so over active it was killing me I nearly had a heart attack and I technically died having my youngest daughter (now 16) because I had something called a thyroid storm stopped me breathing, I was on a vent, had the paddles the whole shebang. So not had much luck and that's why I get so fed up having to prove myself at these interviews. I have 3 huge medical folders at the hospital which stand over 2 feet high going back to when I was 4. I've had 6 operations for my joints from the age of 4 onwards and I have specialists letters coming out of my ears and yet I still feel I have to beg for money and I still feel GUILTY that I am getting 'free' money as the news says. Sigh I sometimes feel so left out by life but I know others are worse and I have 2 wonderful daughters, no hubby anymore the sh*t left me 7 years ago for an 18 year old grrrrr oh well she's welcome to him. I'm in a relationship now but find it hard to get close because I am in so much pain and it causes rows. Sorry I've really digressed here I think I need a session in the 'black dog' cafe sniff. Thanks Jamla hugs to you and everyone. x

black_paw

hi tabunny i try not to do to much and build up energy to go out. i stay in and rest , to give me a couple of hours out the next day in afternoon for shopping then come back and go to bed for a while to recover to put away stuff , it seems not to over do things. to be ok. but some times i make myself go in to some other shops , and pay for it the next day .

CiciBaltimore

jimjams_mommy wrote: »

Hello I want a bit of advice to what to expect when going for a IB medical.

I've had depression since april and was on anti-depressants, I found I was pregnant and was advised by my gp to stop. Sadly the baby had heart problems and died at 18 weeks during the summer. I went for counselling at my gp but didn't find it help. I now have a cpn and I'm back taking meds.

I applied for IB in october as I wasn't working or getting any benefits. I was told I could get it and sent in my sick note that is from oct 08 to may 09. I was sent a medical questioner before christmas which I filled in and today got a letter that I have to go for a medical interview I arrange the interview for mid Jan.

I just want to know what to expect and I find it hard to talk about how I feel without crying. I'm not looking forward to the interview and just want to stop my benefits as I feel embaressed about having mental health problems.

sorry for long post. any advice welcome

you shoudl ask this on the benefit place coz i didnt think this is going to get you good answers here, just a load of opinions from people who think they know it all.