Hi all,
I’m not sure if i’m in the right area of this site to post this, but I was just wondering if anybody else had been discriminated against in their PIP face to face assessment by their assessor?
Earlier this year I was assessed by a Paramedic and at first she was really nice and genuine. I was so released but I was still a nervous wreck and kept heaving throughout the assessment. See Stress triggers off my conditions which I will mention later on.
My assessment seemed to be going okay until it came to me mentioning I had a male partner who had to help me with my care including supervising showers that her mannerism changed.
As a gay person I know when somebody is offended by my sexuality. The assessor left 20 minutes after starting my assessment. I knew immediately I wasn’t going to get a favourable outcome.
i asked for my report so as I could predict what sort of points I may get. I was totally disappointed by the amount of misrepresentations there was in my report. Including the fact my assessor said I attended an assessment centre by myself when my assessment was carried out at home.
i was devastated and shocked when my report finally came back with zero points on both parts.
You see earlier this year, January to be precise my illness started and it has only gotten worse with time.
Currently I have been diagnosed with,
Cyclical Vomiting Syndrome,
Fibromyalgia,
Chronic Fatigue,
Irritable Bowl Syndrome,
Anxiety,
depression,
Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease,
Chostochondritis,
Malnutrition,
Chronic weightloss,
Keto-Acidosis,
Chronic Dehydration
Chronic Nausea.
The list goes on.
Yet I still scored zero points. If that wasn’t bad enough my mandatory reconsideration was upheld and they stated no medical evidence from the Dr would be used. So again rejected.
so I explained that my condition by just having Fibromyalgia is bad enough, but take the Cyclical Vomiting syndrome into account makes everything so much worse.
see since March, every two weeks without fail I will vomit for 4 days in a row, back when it started it could last up to 4 days and in that time I can vomit up to 10 times in an hour. I will convulse, black out, go into conscious coma’s and lose control of both my bowls and bladder. I am totally reliant on the help of somebody else in that time to make sure I don’t choke on my own vomit. Then after that 4 days it takes another 6-10 days for me to recover however then the whole process starts again.
i have been hospitalised 4 times in the last 3 months, with Keto-Acidosis, severe dehydration and chronic pain and malnutrition.
This disease is listed on the National organisatio of rare diseases.
Also to add my Fibromyalgia is non responsive to opioid treatments.
what a joy I live in.
i still try to remain positive. When my Fibromyalgia first started I gained a lot of weight, in January I weighed 13 stone. By March I was almost 18 stone.
March was around the time I started being sick, I have to date lost over 5 stone in weight. I am now on FortiJuce drinks and struggle with my dietary intake.
I have just put in a complaint to Capita after they sent me from pillow to post by telling me I actually couldn’t complain.
I currently take a various concoction of medication,
I’m on 50mg of Cyclizene 3 x a day.
Pregabalin 100mg x a Day
30mg of amatryptaline at night
10mg of Diazepam when I have my cycle of vomiting to sedate me.
8mg of Ondansatron when in a cycle
50mg of Lansaprozole 1-2 a day
Gaviscon advance 20mls 4 x a day
Forticue 200mls x a day
As you can see my health conditions are very extreme and chronic, but due to the discimation of an assessor I now have to go to a tribuneral to get some money from the DWP to help with my chronic illnesses.
i’m sorry I have vented so bad and long in here but i’m just completely gobsmacked that an assessor can lie so bad in an assessment just because they don’t agree with your sexuality.
so what I am asking has anybody else had this sort of a reaction from an assessor?
It’s clear to see I have an extreme disability but the DWP chose to take the assessors side even when it was proven she had lied throughout her report?
thank you for reading, and sorry I have waffled on so much I just can’t believe that medical people can get away with such discrimination.
David
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