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4 years 5 months ago #253275 by Julia
PIP Question 14 Moving Around was created by Julia
Hi I am looking for some advice as to Q14a How far can you walk taking into account any aids you use ?
Background to my Condition:
I have suffered with constant severe pain in my neck, right arm, shoulder, wrists and hands since 2004 due to having arthritis and spondylosis of the cervicothoracic spine.
The arthritis and spondylosis have both worsened with age.
In 2012 I had a partial right nephrectomy due to an operation for cancer of the kidney (renal carcinoma). As a result of the operation I suffer from Intercostal neuralgia, which is a constant severe neuropathic pain involving the intercostal nerves below my ribs, as well as Abdominal Myofacial Pain, which is a constant severe pain that affects the connective tissue of muscle in my ribs.
I have difficulty in walking because it is extremely painful for me to walk even a few metres. Walking causes severe discomfort and pain in both my neck and ribs. I get sharp shooting pains that are excruciatingly painful. I have to walk slowly because of the pain and I have to rest if the pain becomes too much.
The pain is always there day and night, my condition is always at the level described , somedays it can be even worse.
So the fact is I can walk but it is very painful and it causes more pain when I walk
The options are
Less 20 metres
Between 20 and 50metres
200 metres or more
Would welcome your opinion
Background to my Condition:
I have suffered with constant severe pain in my neck, right arm, shoulder, wrists and hands since 2004 due to having arthritis and spondylosis of the cervicothoracic spine.
The arthritis and spondylosis have both worsened with age.
In 2012 I had a partial right nephrectomy due to an operation for cancer of the kidney (renal carcinoma). As a result of the operation I suffer from Intercostal neuralgia, which is a constant severe neuropathic pain involving the intercostal nerves below my ribs, as well as Abdominal Myofacial Pain, which is a constant severe pain that affects the connective tissue of muscle in my ribs.
I have difficulty in walking because it is extremely painful for me to walk even a few metres. Walking causes severe discomfort and pain in both my neck and ribs. I get sharp shooting pains that are excruciatingly painful. I have to walk slowly because of the pain and I have to rest if the pain becomes too much.
The pain is always there day and night, my condition is always at the level described , somedays it can be even worse.
So the fact is I can walk but it is very painful and it causes more pain when I walk
The options are
Less 20 metres
Between 20 and 50metres
200 metres or more
Would welcome your opinion
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4 years 5 months ago #253286 by BIS
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Hi Julia
I can't tell you which of these to put. Only you know your conditions.
If you walk a great deal slower than someone who does not have your condition and you have to keep stopping and you are in extreme pain when walking and have to stop, or you avoid walking at all because of what it would physically cost you, or you are in danger of falling and need an aid such as a walking stick to walk, then you may want to say it is less than 20 meters. You did say you can only walk a few metres. A question that is often asked by assessors is: do you do your own shopping? If you walk around a supermarket (even slowly) assessors will assume that you can walk 200 meters or more. (even though it might not be the case). You need to make it clear that the difficulties you have in walking are all the time, or the majority of the time.
BIS
I can't tell you which of these to put. Only you know your conditions.
If you walk a great deal slower than someone who does not have your condition and you have to keep stopping and you are in extreme pain when walking and have to stop, or you avoid walking at all because of what it would physically cost you, or you are in danger of falling and need an aid such as a walking stick to walk, then you may want to say it is less than 20 meters. You did say you can only walk a few metres. A question that is often asked by assessors is: do you do your own shopping? If you walk around a supermarket (even slowly) assessors will assume that you can walk 200 meters or more. (even though it might not be the case). You need to make it clear that the difficulties you have in walking are all the time, or the majority of the time.
BIS
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