Help Please! - Dla

KxMx

missk249 wrote: »

Thanks Mrs Supersaver1

I called the DLA about the appeal, and was told that once I have been reassessed and I am still not happy with the outcome, then I can then go to appeal.

Can I still go t appeal even though the reassessment is in motion at present?

Yes you can send in the GL24 appeal form in even though the reassessment hasn't been decided yet.

Hapless_2

I have considered writing down every need that I have, and how I get in and out of bed, go to the toilet, get out of a chair, shower and how I cannot cook or prepare a meal as I suffer from so much pain and the fact that I cannot concentrate and I am also very sleepy and fall asleep regularly because of my medication. ( I also take medication for asthma, allergies and eczema as well)

I need help to take my tablets too as I have previously taken overdoses due to my depression and my medication has to be kept away so as I do not put myself at risk. I need medication 5 times a day and once at night, and need help to get out of bed and back to toilet throughout the night as I cannot sleep for long periods because the pain increases and have to move to a different position frequently and need help to do this also.

this should most definately been on your form in the first place, every need you have, no matter how small should go down.

as for getting claim changed on reassessment, I did.

missk249

see this is where the problem lies. Due to my current lack of energy, concentration and awareness, I obviously did not enclose enough information originally.

krisskross

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This problem is so easy to overcome. My husband takes about 20 tablets a day so it would be so easy to miss some out, or be uncertain whether or not they have been taken.

I bought a medicine dispensing box thing from Boots which has little plastic containers for each day of the week and plastic dividers to allow for taking meds 4 times a day.

One evening a week, in our case a Thursday, we stock the box with medication for the following week. We use a repeat prescription sheet to ensure we do not miss anything. Now if he is unsure whether he has taken something he just looks in his dosing box. If it is not there then he has taken it.

Obviously this only works with routine, regularly taken medication, but I assume that is what you are talking about.