Blue Badge For Parking

colloq

Would i be entitled to a blue badge, i have just been diagnosed with sinus tachycardia and find walking extremely exerting and painfull. ????

GlasweJen

blue badges are usually given to people in wheelchairs and you automatically get one if you get higher mobility DLA or are blind and deaf, have had both your legs amputated and a couple of other extreme criteria.

You can apply for a blue badge through the discretionary scheme but some local authorities make it very difficult. You should apply for DLA if they can't get your condition under control.

kingfisherblue

Our local authority is sympathetic to disabilities and conditions that do not necessarily mean you are in a wheelchair. If your doctors cannot bring your condition under control and make it less painful for walking, out authority would be likely to send you for a medical. My mum-in-law had to go for one - she's too old to apply for mobility - and she was awarded the blue badge with no problem 9well deserved IMO, she had struggled for many years with a variety of conditions and she hasn't been able to walk as far as her local bus stop for several years)

krisskross

Like for all other sickness related benefits a diagnosis is just words. It depends on how it affects you. Treatment is often good for this symptom.

savemoney

Automatically entitlement if you get high rate mobility DLA otherwise its at discretion of local council which isnt always easy to get one

If you do you may get free travel on buses depending on area and or time of day

colloq

Can you claim higher rate dla motability for sinus tachycardia then ??
Medication upto now doesnt seem to help which incidentally is rolling onto about 6 months. Just havent got energy and cant be bothered with the pain to walk anywhere. Anyone let me know if they have been succesfull with a claim for higher rate dla motability please.

savemoney

I dont know had to goggle what it was sinus tachycardia

All I know is that when my daughter claimed she got turned down so appealed she had to have a test at hospital just to see how far she can walk. She also got turned down for DLA but in end got both but I find you always have to fight to get anything



Sinus tachycardia (also colloquially known as sinus tach or sinus tachy) is a heart rhythm with elevated rate of impulses originating from the sinoatrial node, defined as a rate greater than 100 beats/min in an average adult. The normal heart rate in the average adult ranges from 60–100 beats/min. Note that the normal heart rate varies with age, with infants having normal heart rate of 110–150 bpm to the elderly, who have slower normals.

colloq

Hi Savemoney, can i ask did your daughter have sinus tachycardia or something else.

jazabelle

colloq wrote: »

Hi Savemoney, can i ask did your daughter have sinus tachycardia or something else.

She had to google what sinus tachycardia was, so I doubt her daughter has it...

Indie_Kid

colloq wrote: »

Can you claim higher rate dla motability for sinus tachycardia then ??

The name is irrelevant. If you meet the criteria, you can claim it.

jazabelle

colloq wrote: »

Can you claim higher rate dla motability for sinus tachycardia then ??
Medication upto now doesnt seem to help which incidentally is rolling onto about 6 months. Just havent got energy and cant be bothered with the pain to walk anywhere. Anyone let me know if they have been succesfull with a claim for higher rate dla motability please.

DLA doesn't work by which condition you have. You need to explain what needs you have arising from it. Your care needs and your mobility needs. So it doesn't matter if 50 people come along with sinus tachycarida and say they have it, it doesn't guarantee anyone else will. The only way for you to know is to make a claim.