Risky IB to ESA transfer may affect DLA, leaked DWP letter reveals

Breast_Cancer_Survivor

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

That's just ridiculous! Having cancer is no different from many other major conditions and many people are back at work within a few weeks or months. Some people may need DLA but there's no reason for it to be automatic.

It effects some people mentally though.

The worry of it coming back etc.

I had Ductal Carcinoma Insitu in January 1997 which they managed to completely remove.

However as I was only 24 & it was rare at the time for someone so young to have breast cancer I was deemed to be high risk so spent the next 9 years having annual mammograms/examinations.

Sometimes they would find a lump which would freak me out & meant me having to have ultrasounds/mri's & core biopsies.

Living with the fear of the Cancer returning caused me so much anxiety that I became depressed.

I spent 9 years of my life in Limbo waiting for the cancer to come back which it did & if I hadn't of had my mastectomy I would of been living like that for the rest of my life.

Breast_Cancer_Survivor

dmg24 wrote: »

Perhaps your depression would not be so bad if you thought about something ... anything ... other than yourself?

Typical response.

Some people are depressed for no apparent reason & I think most sensible people would agree that being told you were a high risk of breast cancer coming back would be stressful.

Most women freak out when they feel a lump in their breast & those people usually have nothing wrong with them but knowing that you are high risk & being advised at by the country's leading expert on breast cancer that you should have a bilateral mastectomy at 24 would worry anyone.

Oldernotwiser

Breast_Cancer_Survivor wrote: »

Most women freak out when they feel a lump in their breast & those people usually have nothing wrong with them but knowing that you are high risk & being advised at by the country's leading expert on breast cancer that you should have a bilateral mastectomy at 24 would worry anyone.

Then why didn't you follow his/her advice? My philosophy has always been to put myself in the best medical hands possible and then follow their advice.

dmg24

Breast_Cancer_Survivor wrote: »

Typical response.

Some people are depressed for no apparent reason & I think most sensible people would agree that being told you were a high risk of breast cancer coming back would be stressful.

Most women freak out when they feel a lump in their breast & those people usually have nothing wrong with them but knowing that you are high risk & being advised at by the country's leading expert on breast cancer that you should have a bilateral mastectomy at 24 would worry anyone.

But that was years ago - you are never going to get out of the vicious cycle if you insist on living in the past.

Breast_Cancer_Survivor

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

Then why didn't you follow his/her advice? My philosophy has always been to put myself in the best medical hands possible and then follow their advice.

My surgeon wouldn't give me a mastectomy as he said I was too young & that it still wouldn't 100% stop it from coming back anyway.

Breast_Cancer_Survivor

dmg24 wrote: »

But that was years ago - you are never going to get out of the vicious cycle if you insist on living in the past.

As soon as my court case is over I shall be moving on with my life.

I know you don't understand because it isn't happening to you.

I had to fight to have my surgery as I wanted to make my life better but all it has done is make it worse as it all went wrong (5 times).

Oldernotwiser

Breast_Cancer_Survivor wrote: »

My surgeon wouldn't give me a mastectomy as he said I was too young & that it still wouldn't 100% stop it from coming back anyway.

You said the country's greatest cancer expert recommended that you have this.

Oldernotwiser

Breast_Cancer_Survivor wrote: »

I had to fight to have my surgery as I wanted to make my life better but all it has done is make it worse as it all went wrong (5 times).

Are you suing all the surgeons who operated on you? (Just out of interest.)

snoopy89

i cant help seeing the same people that down others all the time in the same demeaning ways tread after tread, get a bloody life and stop take the !!!! when people are telling u how things are with themselfs. all i read is mental problems me etc etc are nothing to do with ib or dla, while i dont have those probllems i do know 2 nurses that have worked for years and both now have me and cant work. start thinking and stop knocking for the hell of it. there had my say, oh the countrys full of ignorant people we dont need them here. :eek:

right now i am going to buy a rowing boat with my little bit of money i have left before the uk sinks all the way to the bottom of the ocean.

mybe i can ask for a sub of loony after all 140.000 pounds a week he can afford it. stupid bloody wages, but thats another matter.

krisskross

pixwix wrote: »

But neither is there any excuse for people being given a hard time at the most vulnerable point in their lives. My son's father-in-law is less than 6 weeks past very serious surgery for cancer, and it only takes a glance not a medical exam to see the man is dying on his feet. But his benefit has been stopped and he's been told to go back to work. Given the man is in his 60s and has worked hard all his life, it's obscene.

Surely if he is in his 60s he can claim pension credit?

Which benefit has been stopped?