unable to work due to illness/disability

Lou76

jennie-jack wrote: »

i wouldnt think you can get help, i would use your dla to buy the bike.
also someone above said about the goverment helping alcoholics get booze and someone told him he was ridiculous. it is very sadly true they get an allowance to buy alcohol plus get supplement drinks on prescription so they dont have to buy food.

Really? :eek:

What's the point in that? Are they hoping to kill them off early and therefore save money in the future on NHS treatment, pension etc? I'm bamboozled. :silenced:

Sorry OP, didn't mean to derail your thread - it was the shock that did it.

Could you apply for a budgeting loan via your IS? I'm not too clued up on them, only heard about them on here, so I'm not sure what the criteria is etc.

Might be worth checking out anyway?

kingfisherblue

welshgirl_michelle wrote: »

sorry i should have mentioned that the travel expenses you can claim for if you are on IS is .. travel costs to and from hospital for NHS treatment under the care of a consultant or on referral by a doctor or dentist sorry for the confusion

Thanks for clarifying this. I am aware of travel expenses for hospital appointments, but I didn't think of that when I read your post. Too tired and I should have been in bed, I guess.

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welshgirl_michelle wrote: »

yes i also recieved dla .. a mountain bike would help me improve & strengthen my vmo muscles up hopefully enough 2 reduce the amount of knee dislocations i have on both legs (many years of normal physio hasnt helped etc) a physio has suggested that i get a bike .. to get a decent suitable bike for me is about £120 (not that cheap) i just wondered if i would be allowed any help (as it could be a benefit to improving my health)

I have a similar condition, had surgery last year which has not helped. They're both still clicking, dislocating and causing huge amounts of pain.

Anyway, I was told cycling would help and it does to a degree but at no point did they say it had to be a mountain bike! I use the bikes at the council run gyms, at reduced rates due to recieving DLA. Maybe you could try the same?

Oldernotwiser

I'm no cyclist but surely a bike's a bike, whether mountain bike, ordinary bike or stationary bike?

paulrn_2

I must be going mad, in what world can you swim and ride a mountain bike but not be fit enough to do some sort of work.

ash4becks

paulrn wrote: »

I must be going mad, in what world can you swim and ride a mountain bike but not be fit enough to do some sort of work.

iam 90% op has the same condition i have which is hypermoblity syndrom, where you suffer lots of dislacations or part dislacations (the part are daliy for me) in varoius joints in you body due to musles and all of your ligaments and cartlage are alot weaker than they would be on a normal person without the condition,

it is very painful and can go from being fine to barley being able to walk often painkillers do very little iam still recoveing from a flareup of a month where i was near bedbound, its not easy to manage and the swiming and cycling is to strenthen all of the aspects of the body that are weak to help bulid up so condtion doesnt cause the dislocations as much, some people are fine no affects at all with this some like myslef have alot of problems, so please dont think just because you can work easly with this kind of condtion , a flare up can last a few days , weeks, months or even years so empolyers arent to keen on so much time of when condtion is so unpredictable

TheBottomLine_2

krisskross wrote: »

Can I get DLA to pay for my glasses? Surely my severe myopia is a disability?

Spectacles can be provided by the NHS, can they not?

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paulrn wrote: »

I must be going mad, in what world can you swim and ride a mountain bike but not be fit enough to do some sort of work.

You can do these things with the aim of getting better to enable you to return to work but be in a huge amount of pain whilst doing it and for days after.

krisskross

TheBottomLine wrote: »

Spectacles can be provided by the NHS, can they not?

I have never been offered free spectacles. The pair I am wearing now cost £350. There is no help from the NHS apart from the free eye test which I get because of glaucoma.

TheBottomLine_2

I'm pretty sure that if you can't afford to buy your own specs you can get them on the NHS. Might be worth looking into.