Another ESA Nightmare

[speedfreek]

Thank you rightsforme thats very helpful, did the welfare rights get your old medical information for you or did you have to get it yourself?

 

Call up see if you qualify for the service and ask them!

 

Mine say they are part of the Legal Service Commission.... so since I qualify my legal fees are covered (depending on how they see the outcome) and so would be requests for medical records etc under this scheme.

 

All I in theory have to do is inform them of the result from my applications for DLA & ESA and they'll take it form there.

[rightsforme]

Thank you rightsforme thats very helpful, did the welfare rights get your old medical information for you or did you have to get it yourself?

Years ago when I first started having fits, after I had the first one I ended up in hospital having my head stitched then was given a letter to take to the doc, I actually had a grand mal fit in the doctors surgery, (cant beat that for evidence!) came round and the doc had a compress over my eye (I fell face first into the corner of a wall and it was swelling up) I didnt know where the hell I was, anyway I was carted off to hospital there and then and they kept me in for a few days and did tests. Only thing is this is about 20 years ago, and Im at a different surgery now. I dont know if all this will be on record somewhere?

The depression got worse after my dad died which was sudden and shouldnt have happened (hospital blunder which Im sure lead to his death) Ive not been the same since and thats when all my new illnesses started and the old ones kicked off again.

Hi twinkletoes

I already had my reports as my PTSD and Back problems were caused by a road accident so I was supplied copies for the court case, so I just had to dig them out. You should however be able to obtain a copy of your medical reports, though I do believe that they do charge for this but welfare rights or similar may be able to help you with more information on how to obtain these. I would expect any hospital treatment or admittance to be in your medical records as details are sent to your gp and records are sent to your new doctor if you have changed GP. I had moved towns at the time so had changed GP and my records of medical of treatment i had received were on there as these had to be supplied to the specialists I was sent to for information. Hope that helps and good luck with it.

[twinkletoes66]

Hi again,

Thanks again for the advice and links - are they welfare rights?

I hope they have all my records and I hope they will be of some help even if they were from years ago, but even if not, if they have the records they will have proof of me having a seizure at the surgery and hopefully the injury to my face. My poor friend bless him he thought I was dying in front of him, he cried when I next saw him hed been so scared.

 

Rightsforme this might sound a strange question, I hope you dont mind me asking...PTSD, what are the symptoms? I get what I can only describe as flashbacks, I see myself in the hospital when we are told to expect the worst for my dad, and my breath is literally taken away. It only lasts for a second but its horrible and it comes from nowhere. Its like Im back there and I feel that blow all over again, then its with me for hours does that make sense? I keep thinking Im a bit nuts

 

Im going to set about this appeal form now, I think Ill just put the main points in, then if they turn me over to the tribunal I will take everything I have to them.

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[honeybee13]

Hi Twinkletoes. I found this article on the BBC website all about PTSD. The expert they talked to put a couple of leaflets to download next to the article.

 

It says flashbacks are very much part of PTSD. Hope you find it interesting.

 

HB x