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PIP Assessments For Psoriatic Arthritis

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robert271163
robert271163

Has anyone been for PIP assessment? I went yesterday not sure how it went i will have to wait to find out. But the Questions i was asked was pointless they only asked what i had written on the application to confirm what i had written, They have been in contact with my specialist who has confirmed my condition and spoken to other medical people i have seen to me it was pointless. They have all the information they need so why do they need to see you? The exercises they asked me to do where mainly pointless as they were ones that my condition is not effected by and the ones that were i could not do. Has anyone managed to get PIP for Psoriatic Arthritis or am i wasting my time?

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  • frances66
    frances66 robert271163

    Posted

    Hi Robert, to be honest, I'm sick of moaning about my pain!! My skin is itching like mad, psoriasis is spreading everywhere, but I keep telling myself there is people worse than me. I hope I don't lose my PIP before I even get it, especially  with all the changes going on with the government at the moment. I  wonder how they would feel if they were in our position? 

    Best wishes, hope you can have a good weekend.

  • KatCarter27
    KatCarter27 robert271163

    Posted

    I'm personally terrified to apply for PIP, one for fear of rejection and two because receiving disability would mean excepting I'm not 100% and need help. Physically I am what my consultants say "disabled" but mentally and with pain relief I'm not, except on the 'bad days', so morally I don't feel right taking PIP. If however I wasn't taking painkillers I would be utterly useless so even filling in the PIP form is confusing. Every answer is a YES when I'm dosed up but a NO when I'm not.

    At the moment I'm a carer for my elderly grandmother receiving Carers Allowance but finding it harder and harder to care for her when my body doesn't work properly. She needs me everyday no matter how I'm feeling but if I have to stop working because me body continues to let me down; and I know it's unlikely to get any better, I have to pay the bills somehow. It annoys the hell out of me that everything comes down to money but without it I won't have anything. I just don't know what to do.

  • Lainey8
    Lainey8 robert271163

    Posted

    I am just starting my application for PIP. I too, have better days, where I can move around more freely and am able to potter about and then bad days where I struggled to walk, stand or sit down! Does the PIP assesment take the fatigue into account? I often find this just as disabling! Especailly if I overdo it on a good day! Does it also allow for a foggy brain and forgetfulness, due to the huge amount of painkillers needed? x
    • Lainey8
      Lainey8

      Posted

      Well, I can answer my own question! No!!!

      I have found an online self assessment. It is very rigid with its questioning isnt it!

    • robert271163
      robert271163 Lainey8

      Posted

      it is but come the assement its different when you go for the assesment its not as bad as you think it will be, I will messge you 
    • geraldine87987
      geraldine87987 Lainey8

      Posted

      Hi just had my pip recently and wanted to share my awful experience yes it was Attos, arrived struggled to get out my partners car assesor/paramedic was sat outside smoking saw me struggle i didnt know it was the assessor at the time he put downi was fit and healthy!!!!!! he was intimidating tried to put words in my mouth didnt put things i told him about my daily living down i asked him if he knew what psa was he didnt and didnt seem to care i know pip is not down to him but when the decision came i had a 0 for every element!!!!!!! there were so many discrepancies of things he said i did and didnt do!!  i have been under specialist for 21 years my psa is very aggresive i inject weekly take copeus ammounts of pain killers have deformed fingers constantly swollen hands knees which the "assessor saw and commented but didnt put down or that my hand was strapped up!! what a farce i had to go into hospital last week for miltiple joint injections under GA and the dessision maker put down not once but three times i have no specialist input therfore i was not entitled!!! the assessor had not put down anything and the pip form obviously is not read as input down all my specialist there name address and telephone number i am so cross but i did call before the decission to complain!!  i am now waiting for a reconsideration but have had to pay for a full medical report privately from my specialists as you only have four weeks to do it and collate letters from GPs all which Atos should have done rant over!!!!!!!!!! 
    • robert271163
      robert271163 geraldine87987

      Posted

      Hi Geraldine 

      How discuting have you been treated I would be fuming, I would ask for the assesor to be investigated I would certainly be contacting my MP to take it further, It is wrong you have to pay for another assesment. When I had my assesment I had every specialist letter including appointments with me so they could not deny any of the evidence. I would be very tempted to Record any other assesment to show it was impartial and what was and was not said. 

      Best wishes Robert 

  • geraldine87987
    geraldine87987 robert271163

    Posted

    Hi Robert thank you for your message!! yes i wish i had recorded it and told the people whom i complained to that had it been recorded they would see the discrepancies!! The assessor had put dow that i bent down to pick my bag up!! i had a small shoulder bag that stayed on my shoulder the whole time!! he kept asking if i was on facebook so many times!! what has that got to do with psa it was a complete farce had me in tears!! i now await the answere to my reconsideration but with the £150 medical report GP reports and clinical specialists i hope that who ever looks at it feels ashamed at how i have been treated and does the right thing, i hope this does not happen to anyone else!!
    • Lainey8
      Lainey8 geraldine87987

      Posted

      Hi Geraldine

      I am so sorry to hear what you have been through. It sounds terrible!! Have you got a sympathetic GP that you could turn to? 

      I am going to take someone with me if I have to go to one of those. Thank you for the warning. I have had such an awful time with incompetant consultants, that I surely couldnt be unlucky enough to get an awful assessor too!!

      I hope that you manage to get somewhere with an appeal. Its shocking that you have to pay for it yourself!!

      Take care x

    • geraldine87987
      geraldine87987 Lainey8

      Posted

      Thank you!! yes definitely take someone as it seems they are a law unto them selves!!!  i have heard Atos get paid for everyone turned down!!!  I will def taking someone with me for any more dealings with them!!!!! and a recorder!!!!
  • lucynewas
    lucynewas robert271163

    Posted

    Over 50% of PIP appeals succeed - they decline in the hopes of avoiding claims.  If you are rejected, get the disability living foundation or the CAB to help you to write your appeal letter.
  • marj13389
    marj13389 robert271163

    Posted

    Hi Robert, i know it has been a while since your post but i have palmoplanter psoriasis and wanted to ask how your pip assessment went. Did they approve your application.

    Thank you.

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