Dla to be replaced by pip

oldestrocker

broxiebear1 wrote: »

hi does anyone know how to keep patches on as they seem to fall off. whats the highest morphene patch you can get wifr now on 50mg .to take along with her painkillers

Morphine patches or indeed the oral version - MST - are normally given at up to 100mg every 12 hours.
This is in addition to Tramadol.

sunnyone

broxiebear1 wrote: »

hi does anyone know how to keep patches on as they seem to fall off. whats the highest morphene patch you can get wifr now on 50mg .to take along with her painkillers

I use micro pore to tape the patch down, or you can get a clear patch that goes over the top but I cant remeber what they are called.

The synthetic morphine like drugs have diffrent strenths, Butrans is 20x stronger then morphine (I cant remember the correct number but this will give an idea) and the patches Im on are 80xs stronger then morphine, it depends on your doctor what oral meds that you can take alongside the patches, Im on orampoph and tramadol alongside my patches.

Pain relief isnt all about pain killers, there are many other drugs/therapies that can help keep pain under control and your pain managment team can go through them with you.

pwales wrote: »

hi put the patch on a bit of skin that does not move or crease or wrincle
mine stay on at the top of my arms ...where they give you an injection..i was told another good place is shoulder blade ? never tried there

Shoulder blades are a no no if your a wheelie, we move our arms much more and in a diffrent fashion to people that can walk, I use the upper arm and to help your skin you should peel the backing off the large part of the patch and let the chemicals evaporate off for a couple of minute before you attach it to your skin.

pwales_2

sunnyone do you get red marks when you take the patch off ? i get the same red marks with plasters it must be the adhiesive ?
these red bits sun burn east too (not at the moment at -7 lol

davsidipp

pwales wrote: »

sunnyone do you get red marks when you take the patch off ? i get the same red marks with plasters it must be the adhiesive ?
these red bits sun burn east too (not at the moment at -7 lol

husband gets burn marks with his patches maybe sensitive skin.

sunnyone

If you let the adhesive evaparate before you put the patch on you get much less skin irritation but you will always be left with more sensitive skin where the patches have been used, your supposed to protect the patches from the sun and I have always assumed its to stop the scalding marks, I have scoliosis and I hide my arms and back so not as many people notice it so my arms are rarely out.

Its hard to make sure that you have enough virgin skin available every 84 hours when your limited on where they can go, you can use surgical spirt to make the more sensitive upper arm skin available but it hurts when you take them off and I get left with bruises which look horrible but no worse than the patches do anyway.

ms.b_3

oldestrocker wrote: »

Have you actually re-read your posting? The whole thing is based on negativity. Not one positive word/phrase or comment is made.
Do you actually live your life believing that there is no positive aspect to it?

Changes are coming - and you will find that only the strong will survive them. No doubt you will fall in a heap on the floor crying 'whoa is me and my negative thoughts - life is so cruel and hard!'

Oldestrocker you really are the biggest bell-end on this forum, shouldn't you be "caring" for your wife or something.

Toss er

hrafndot

Quote:
Originally Posted by oldestrocker
Have you actually re-read your posting? The whole thing is based on negativity. Not one positive word/phrase or comment is made.
Do you actually live your life believing that there is no positive aspect to it?

Changes are coming - and you will find that only the strong will survive them. No doubt you will fall in a heap on the floor crying 'whoa is me and my negative thoughts - life is so cruel and hard!'

hrafndot wrote: »

I'm glad you're beginning to get some spellings right but, alas, this time you used your John Wayne dictionary, instead of the Mary Poppins one you seem to be living in: it should be "woe is me"; bit trigger happy, were you?:rotfl:

In his cack handed way, he was trying to convey a feeling of doom.

He ought get back to the Blue badge thread and post bigger and bigger fonts. That really rocks his socks.:rotfl:

cit_k

krisskross wrote: »

Do you not read the papers or watch TV? You must know just how much debt the country is in plus how many false claimants of disabilty and sickness benefits there are.

Time to realise that DLA and ESA are not going to be the easy option that they used to be.

Proper medicals and medical evidence, not just a claimant's word for it and an under pressure GP writing out sick certificates.

I doubt there is a single one of us that doesn't know someone with a greatly exaggerated claim to secure the not inconsiderable disability benefits available. Certainly it pays so much better than JSA and no hassle from one year to the next.

Yes, didnt the chancellor say they found a few billion that they did not know about when they did the spending review?

Also, yes re the number of false sickness benefit claimaints, the level is at about 0.5 percent, rather a low percentage of all claims.

As for no hassle, thats untrue, as many people are regularily hassled, by having to attend assessments, then appeals etc to prove their entitlement, only, after having proved themselves to be in the right, have to repeat the process only a few months after winning.

cit_k

krisskross wrote: »

I recently helped a friend fill in the DLA forms for her daughter. Yes it took a week because we did a bit a day. It was extremely repetitious, the same answers just worded slightly differently. However there are a lot of tick boxes so they don't take long.

The child was awarded HRC and LRM so needs a great deal of care and I am fully aware that her mother found writing it all down distressing but she has lived with and dealt with her daughter's issues for almost 12 years so none of it was exactly a surprise.

DLA currently has one major advantage over ESA, with ESA the weight of evidence lies with the ATOS report, and any third party evidence that is actually better quality is given less weight than the report.

With DLA, at present, real medical evidence is given priority, ie if you can back up your claims with medical evidence (ie either you supply evidence or the DWP writes to your gp or specialist and they supply it) then that is given the greatest evidential weight.

Once it changes, and atos are doing reports, then that is going to change no doubt, and real medical evidence will be ignored in favour of a non medically based assessment.

cit_k

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

But the GP and the Consultant are not paying your Benefits. Do you really think that receiving DLA should just be a matter of you saying, 'I'm disabled, her's a Dr's note'? Also some disabilities (my son's girlfriend springs to mind) don't require seeing a Dr regularly.

Of course the DWP have to check.

Of course they should check, sadly with ESA/IB they rarely do, medical evidence was only requested from a claimaints GP in only 13 percent of IB cases in one year.

They rely more on assessments of a non medical nature, which are not designed to check medical facts.

DLA however, does rely more on real medical evidence, but that will change in the future sadly, allowing more miscarriages of entitlement, and no doubt making it easier to defraud.