Hip Replacement and DLA?

Oldernotwiser

woodbine wrote: »

thats not always the case,it could be that a relapse is suffered in a fairly short space of time,what would have been the point in reporting a temporary change?It could be that any proceedure appears at first to have been successful only to turn out not to be,would you say that should be reported from day one,only for someone to be put in the situation where they then need to reclaim dla?

Don't the forms say that you have to report anychange in your condition?
Better to have to reclaim than to be claiming fraudulently

Oldernotwiser

pipkin71 wrote: »

Out of interest, does anyone know if they ever do both hips at the same time or would they operate on them individually?

I only know my mother's situation, where they did one and then the other when the first was fully functioning.

I certainly wasn't suggesting there was a need to report changes during the period of convalescence .

pipkin71

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

I only know my mother's situation, where they did one and then the other when the first was fully functioning.

I certainly wasn't suggesting there was a need to report changes during the period of convalescence .

I was just giving a time frame really, older, so for at least six weeks, you wouldn't report a change. No idea how much longer after that, because, I suppose people will recover at different rates.

I will need both hips replacing, so wondered if they would do them at the same time.

One is worse than the other but they are both pretty bad. How long between operations did your mum wait?

krisskross

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

I only know my mother's situation, where they did one and then the other when the first was fully functioning.

I certainly wasn't suggesting there was a need to report changes during the period of convalescence .

I think with most bi-lateral things that the surgeons would want to be sure of the result of the first op before doing the other. Although I know it is different my husband won't be allowed to have his second eye operated on until the surgeon is happy with the first one.

pipkin71

Wasn't this same question raised a short while back, anyway?

The person wanted to know if an op could end up cancelling out their DLA and I ended up having a post removed when my halo slipped :D

Edited to add a link:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2383651

Oldernotwiser

pipkin71 wrote: »

I will need both hips replacing, so wondered if they would do them at the same time.

One is worse than the other but they are both pretty bad. How long between operations did your mum wait?

I'm pretty sure my mother had to wait a couple of years between the ops but whether that was because of her health or just working her way up the lists, I don't know.

Oldernotwiser

pipkin71 wrote: »

Wasn't this same question raised a short while back, anyway?

The person wanted to know if an op could end up cancelling out their DLA and I ended up having a post removed when my halo slipped :D

Surely not - I missed that!

pipkin71

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

Surely not - I missed that!

I found the link - although my post had definitely gone

I can still remember the gist of it, though :rotfl:

tanith

pipkin71 wrote: »

After the hip operation, they place restrictions on you for six weeks and you have to continue to walk with sticks for so long.

Personally, I would wait until the six weeks were up, before you can decide whether or not there has been an improvement.

The first few weeks after the op you are extremely limited in what you can do, anyway, so wouldn't be able to predict how successful the operation has been, at first.

Out of interest, does anyone know if they ever do both hips at the same time or would they operate on them individually?

Its possible to have bilateral hip surgery but it will depend on your surgeon , they don't all do it.. and your fitness and age I would guess.. as for improvement after the surgery , painwise it was more or less instant for me on waking from the surgery my hip pain was gone... I had pain from the actual surgery but the bone on bone grinding pain was gone for good..

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krisskross wrote: »

So how long should the possibly fraudulent claim continue in case there is a relapse? 6 months, a year?

Surely if there is a relapse after an apparently successful procedure then DLA can be claimed again. And judged on the merits of a new claim.

The rules would indicate 3 months,in fact the dla people themselves also suggest this so it must be right.Closing one claim only to open another very soon after is a waste of evryones time,its not as though theres a fast-track system like there is for jsa re-claims.
But can i turn the question back on you,if someone was better for a day or a week should they stop their "fraudulant claim"?No of course they shouldnt as its not a fraudulant claim.