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<blockquote data-quote="candy1567" data-source="post: 203398" data-attributes="member: 12897"><p><strong>Re: HOW CAN THEY PUT ME INTO ESA WRAG GROUP WHEN MY WIFE IS </strong></p><p></p><p>Hi littlesteve</p><p></p><p>i know exactly wat u mean and have gone through somthing very similar regarding my hubby's ESA, he was actually refused ESA and told to claim jobseeker allowance,</p><p></p><p>after working for 30 odd years he developed a prostate cancer, although thankfully fully recoverred has been left with severe nerve damage of the muscles controlling the bladder called DSD, which means he cant pee properly, he has severe urine retention and he has the feeling of fullness in bladder all the time, but can only manage a dribble and has to use cathetor on many occasions to stop pain and infections. Waiting to find out if permanant cathetor will help problem, but consultant is reluctant to do. It causes major problems, wetting the bed, dribbing excessively all the time, takin 5 mins to start to pee then only dribbling out only to have the urge to go again after a few mins, our lives are taken up with toilet habbits, hes also a chef so this interferes with his job, but his work is fantastic and they have let him have 2 yrs leave (albeit unpaid)from his job to deal with this illness and then they will take him back, so its not as if he doens't have a job to go to as we are hopeing this is a temp problem with his bladder.</p><p></p><p>wen goin to see the ATOS medical ppl, the DWP stated he failed the medical and he got 0 points out of 15 on their medical. How can someone with his problems score 0 points on the section regarding bladder control We did appeal and he did get ESA only due to excellent consultants input, and the appeals officer was fantastic and used to ring us up at home and ask for more medical evidence so she could overturn the decision. She also said that they are allowed to uses WIKI wen researching ppl's illness, which is so wrong.</p><p></p><p>sorry for long post but wat i want to say is that u can get it overturned, aslong as u have got the medical evidence to back it up, but one thing i was told about these so called medicals is that it doesn't matter wat evidence ur gp/consultant sends, it is down to their ATOS ppl to say if u are medically fit for work, my gp went apes**t wen he was told that and fired a letter off sayin that he wasn't happy that his proffesionalism was under scrutiny and that he was more qualifed that a nurse with 5yrs nursing experience who did the ATOS medical</p><p></p><p>sorry for the long rant but the DWP and the ATOS medicals are a law unto themselves and i used to be involved in working for them many moons ago its shameful, but i do agree that the system is abused everyday by ppl claiming wat they are not entitled to, but genuine ppl are get the short straw</p><p></p><p>Juilex</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="candy1567, post: 203398, member: 12897"] [b]Re: HOW CAN THEY PUT ME INTO ESA WRAG GROUP WHEN MY WIFE IS [/b] Hi littlesteve i know exactly wat u mean and have gone through somthing very similar regarding my hubby's ESA, he was actually refused ESA and told to claim jobseeker allowance, after working for 30 odd years he developed a prostate cancer, although thankfully fully recoverred has been left with severe nerve damage of the muscles controlling the bladder called DSD, which means he cant pee properly, he has severe urine retention and he has the feeling of fullness in bladder all the time, but can only manage a dribble and has to use cathetor on many occasions to stop pain and infections. Waiting to find out if permanant cathetor will help problem, but consultant is reluctant to do. It causes major problems, wetting the bed, dribbing excessively all the time, takin 5 mins to start to pee then only dribbling out only to have the urge to go again after a few mins, our lives are taken up with toilet habbits, hes also a chef so this interferes with his job, but his work is fantastic and they have let him have 2 yrs leave (albeit unpaid)from his job to deal with this illness and then they will take him back, so its not as if he doens't have a job to go to as we are hopeing this is a temp problem with his bladder. wen goin to see the ATOS medical ppl, the DWP stated he failed the medical and he got 0 points out of 15 on their medical. How can someone with his problems score 0 points on the section regarding bladder control We did appeal and he did get ESA only due to excellent consultants input, and the appeals officer was fantastic and used to ring us up at home and ask for more medical evidence so she could overturn the decision. She also said that they are allowed to uses WIKI wen researching ppl's illness, which is so wrong. sorry for long post but wat i want to say is that u can get it overturned, aslong as u have got the medical evidence to back it up, but one thing i was told about these so called medicals is that it doesn't matter wat evidence ur gp/consultant sends, it is down to their ATOS ppl to say if u are medically fit for work, my gp went apes**t wen he was told that and fired a letter off sayin that he wasn't happy that his proffesionalism was under scrutiny and that he was more qualifed that a nurse with 5yrs nursing experience who did the ATOS medical sorry for the long rant but the DWP and the ATOS medicals are a law unto themselves and i used to be involved in working for them many moons ago its shameful, but i do agree that the system is abused everyday by ppl claiming wat they are not entitled to, but genuine ppl are get the short straw Juilex [/QUOTE]
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