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carolannie
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I finally received my Atos medical results.
I had the "medical" in March, and have only just been told that I am supposed to be fit for work.
The form is totally wrong. She (the person who I saw at Atos) had not listened to me at all.
I told her how my illness affects me and how I can't do many things for myself.
The medical was a waste of time. She didn't listen to a word I said and all she kept trying to do, was push me to say I could use the bus!
She has put down that I have no problem doing anything. I'm fuming :mad:
I have medical reports from my GP and am waiting for a referral to see a specialist.
Can someone please give me some advice on what to do? Do I ring and ask for someone to look at the decision again? Or fill out the appeal form?
Thank you for any help.
I had the "medical" in March, and have only just been told that I am supposed to be fit for work.
The form is totally wrong. She (the person who I saw at Atos) had not listened to me at all.
I told her how my illness affects me and how I can't do many things for myself.
The medical was a waste of time. She didn't listen to a word I said and all she kept trying to do, was push me to say I could use the bus!
She has put down that I have no problem doing anything. I'm fuming :mad:
I have medical reports from my GP and am waiting for a referral to see a specialist.
Can someone please give me some advice on what to do? Do I ring and ask for someone to look at the decision again? Or fill out the appeal form?
Thank you for any help.
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carolannie wrote: »I finally received my Atos medical results.
I had the "medical" in March, and have only just been told that I am supposed to be fit for work.
The form is totally wrong. She (the person who I saw at Atos) had not listened to me at all.
I told her how my illness affects me and how I can't do many things for myself.
The medical was a waste of time. She didn't listen to a word I said and all she kept trying to do, was push me to say I could use the bus!
She has put down that I have no problem doing anything. I'm fuming :mad:
I have medical reports from my GP and am waiting for a referral to see a specialist.
Can someone please give me some advice on what to do? Do I ring and ask for someone to look at the decision again? Or fill out the appeal form?
Thank you for any help.0 -
As you say elsewhere that your GPs haven't given you a diagnosis and are reluctant to refer you to a specialist, it may well be that they too feel that you are ineligible for ESA. Your post above make it sound as if you have full medical backing for your claim but earlier posts make it clear that you do not.0
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You can request an appeal and also ask to see what information they used to make their decision.
Did you send medical reports with your application? Do you know what your GP said? A lot the time it seems that that a reason for a person to be turned down is that their GP/specialist has put something different on the forms they're asked to fill to what the claimant expected them to.0 -
Oldernotwiser wrote: »As you say elsewhere that your GPs haven't given you a diagnosis and are reluctant to refer you to a specialist, it may well be that they too feel that you are ineligible for ESA. Your post above make it sound as if you have full medical backing for your claim but earlier posts make it clear that you do not.
I explained how ill was.
She has totally ignored what I said.
She must have had earplugs in.
There is a part on the form, where you put down who your GP is and who your CPN, mental health team are.
She had the names and details of who is supporting me, if she wanted to write to them and ask about me. She obviously hasn't!
Do you know how hard it is to get a diagnosis for a mental health problem?
You have to push to see a specialist, and when you are "up" is when you have to fight for yourself, to be heard.
As I told the examiner, when I am "down" and very ill, I can't get out of bed and all I can think about is ending it.
My forms said all this, yet she says I have no problem doing anything?
My other posts, that you have been searching through, say that I wanted to see a psychiatrist, to get a formal diagnosis.
This is what my GP has now agreed to do and I am waiting for an appointment.
I have medical records going back 15 years, to show the medication I have been on.
Do some more "research" you will find people with mental ill health take sometimes years to be diagnosed, and often they only get that help, when they walk in to A+E, after trying to kill themselves, they get so desperate.
The people at Atos are not helping and only costing the country more money, by making people have to go to appeal If they actually wrote down what people tell them, and asked GP's about their patients health, we wouldn't have to do this!0 -
You can request an appeal and also ask to see what information they used to make their decision.
Did you send medical reports with your application? Do you know what your GP said? A lot the time it seems that that a reason for a person to be turned down is that their GP/specialist has put something different on the forms they're asked to fill to what the claimant expected them to.
My GP wasn't contacted. I didn't know you could send in a medical report with the form?
It doesn't say anywhere to do it, else I would have done.
I just gave them my GP and CPN details, and also my case worker at Mind.0 -
I suffer ASD and was unemployed for 18 months and found it hard to find a understanding employer (ASDA!!) as I can have moments and have problems with interviews. I never thought of claming anything other than JSA there was days when I never wanted to get out of bed! I found keeping busy and looking for work cleaning the house, cooking dinner stuff like that.
Get a job it is part of the road to recovery! Too many people are using mental illness and back pain to sit at home and feel sorry for themself and expect others to pay.EVERYTIME YOU THANK MY POSTS A PUPPY DIES!
TAXPAYERS CAN'T AFFORD TO KEEP YOU ANYMORE GET A JOB!0 -
Get a job it is part of the road to recovery! Too many people are using mental illness and back pain to sit at home and feel sorry for themself and expect others to pay.
For many people, getting a job is not part of the road to recovery.
Like you, I have ASD. I used to work. I held down a responsible job, heading my own department -until my health deteriorated rapidly. My GP and my specialist ave said that even looking for work is impossible for me. As things are, looking for work would exacerbate my condition.
You cannot lump all people with mental health conditions together - nor even all those with ASD.
Some people with mental health issues and back problems may well sit at home and feel sorry for themselves....but many more sit at home weeping tears of frustration at the fact that they cannot work; that the media and government are depicting us all as spongers and scroungers; andthat the general piblic are increrasingly believing these governmental and media lies.
I would gladly give up every penny of my benefits (such as they are - the majority of benefit claimants are not as well-off as people seem to think!) if I could recover my health enough to do some work. Any work.0 -
Prinzessilein wrote: »For many people, getting a job is not part of the road to recovery.
Like you, I have ASD. I used to work. I held down a responsible job, heading my own department -until my health deteriorated rapidly. My GP and my specialist ave said that even looking for work is impossible for me. As things are, looking for work would exacerbate my condition.
You cannot lump all people with mental health conditions together - nor even all those with ASD.
Some people with mental health issues and back problems may well sit at home and feel sorry for themselves....but many more sit at home weeping tears of frustration at the fact that they cannot work; that the media and government are depicting us all as spongers and scroungers; andthat the general piblic are increrasingly believing these governmental and media lies.
I would gladly give up every penny of my benefits (such as they are - the majority of benefit claimants are not as well-off as people seem to think!) if I could recover my health enough to do some work. Any work.
Sorry - slightly offtopic - what does ASD stand for in this context?0 -
Oldernotwiser wrote: »As you say elsewhere that your GPs haven't given you a diagnosis and are reluctant to refer you to a specialist, it may well be that they too feel that you are ineligible for ESA. Your post above make it sound as if you have full medical backing for your claim but earlier posts make it clear that you do not.
Of course the poster has full medical backing - she has a current sick note!
The GP isn't the one to state that she can't function in accord with the criteria of ESA. The GP says that the patient is sick and should refrain from work only.
What backing would you expect the poster to have apart from the MED3? No GP is going to issue a report based on the qualifying functions is he?
Only somebody trained in testing those functions can give that type of report.0 -
carolannie wrote: »
I have medical records going back 15 years, to show the medication I have been on.
Quite honestly that evidence has no relevance to the claim!
You can have people that have only one leg, one arm and have had cancer, but they will be found fit for work because they cannot pass the tests set down for ESA. It is quite simple, they are looking to see if you could carry out any one of many work function tests, not what medication you are on or even what the diagnosis is!0
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