New diagnosis during wait for tribunal, does this affect my claim?

joey3
joey3 Online Community Member Posts: 6 Listener
edited November 2018 in PIP, DLA, ADP & AA
Hello i am looking for some advice please. I have claimed Pip for chronic pelvic pain which i have been denied scored 0 points and had mandatory reconsideration denied. I do not have a tribunal date yet. When I went for my medical i had already been diagnosed with diverticular disease and I stated that i was awaiting an appointment with a urologist. I have since been diagnosed with painful bladder syndrome and I am now taking medication and been referred to bladder clinic. How does this diagnosis affect my claim? I had all the symptoms but no diagnosis as evidence. I hope i do not have to make a fresh claim?? Been 7 months already...any advice how to proceed would be appreciated thank you

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  • Richard_Scope
    Richard_Scope Posts: 3,908 Cerebral Palsy Network
    Hi @joey3
    Welcome to the community. It's good to have you here! We have lots of knowledgeable members who will advise in PIP/DLA discussions

  • poppy123456
    poppy123456 Online Community Member Posts: 64,456 Championing
    Hi,

    A diagnosis, makes no difference to a PIP claim. It's about how your conditions affect your ability to carry out daily activities against the PIP descriptors.
  • joey3
    joey3 Online Community Member Posts: 6 Listener
    Ok thank you guessing there is no need for a new claim then. Hopefully the tribunal will go ok it's an awful process
  • poppy123456
    poppy123456 Online Community Member Posts: 64,456 Championing
    A diagnosis doesn't mean your condition has got worse. Starting a new claim when waiting for a Tribunal is never the best idea. Good luck with the Tribunal.
  • joey3
    joey3 Online Community Member Posts: 6 Listener
    Thank you yes the diagnosis does support the evidence i provided regarding my symptoms and difficulties. No new symptoms. Should be regarded as more evidence in my favour then, along with my medication.
  • joey3
    joey3 Online Community Member Posts: 6 Listener
    The assessor stated i was not in pain and I have told them I strongly disagree with this but they have said the assessor is a medical professional and their evidence is therefore correct. 
  • poppy123456
    poppy123456 Online Community Member Posts: 64,456 Championing
    Whether you were in pain or not, it won't score you the points you need for an award. It doesn't tell them anything at all about how your conditions affect you against the PIP descriptors.
  • joey3
    joey3 Online Community Member Posts: 6 Listener
    The report says they consider me to have the functional ability to carry out the tasks ? 
  • joey3
    joey3 Online Community Member Posts: 6 Listener
    I have given them lots of information about how my conditions affect me on a daily basis and I have been very specific about the descriptors i think apply. Not really sure what else i can do to prove my evidence is genuine
  • Yadnad
    Yadnad Posts: 2,892 Championing
    Username_removed said:
    Did you give them a couple of specifc examples of what had happened when you last attempted each activity? A couple over points scoring activity that is.

    Where? When? What happened? Who witnessed? What happened next and so on.
    Hi Mike,

    I have just been having a look at the PIP2 form and nowhere in all of the pages does it ask the claimant to go into that length of a statement. Have I missed it? I only say this because I always filled out the form strictly to the rules and questions stated and asked.
    Mind you it does appear that a booklet should have been sent to me along with the forms - I don't remember ever reading such a booklet - is it a new system.

    It doesn't affect me anymore obviously but I just wonder where you are coming from in suggesting giving these examples that don't appear on an official documentation. 
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 118 Listener
    joey3 know exactly

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