Optician Costs & Dental Costs

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Does anyone know if your able to get help with Optician and Dental Costs? Whilst having treatment?

Love to all x x x

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Not in Scotland , and we tend to get more perks than down south . It would be great if we did as my eyesight seems worse now, weird as it was always really good .

xx

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My Mother is on a trial drug and her teeth are getting really bad and a side effect of the treatment and her eyesight is also becoming worse. I suppose the drugs do allsorts of things. It just makes me angry that people can not get support with these sorts of costs

Thanks Lorna for your support are there any other Perks you could fill me in on?

Love to all

x x x

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Just had my eyes tested after chemo, I have never needed glasses but chemo has made my eyesight bad, I had to pay full price, I even tried my DLA card but they said it was not on the list of benefits which entitle free eye tests. Don’t know about dental but assume it’s the same.

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For eyetests, if you have a close relative with glaucoma, you get them free after age 40.
Dx

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Hi - (assuming you are in UK) I have found that MacMillan are really switched on about financial aspects of dealing with cancer so a call to them may well help to throw some light on any benefits available for optician and dentist fees. Best of luck.

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Hi I did look into this last year when I was on chemo and no couldn’t find any help with dental and optician costs. You do know that you can get free prescriptions though? I wasn’t told this and it was only a pharmacist at Boots who told me this. J xx

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hi
I get dental and eye tests free because my OH gets pension credit,he is over 60 so gets this instead of incapacity benefit.This is the only benefit I know of which entitles you to free treatment.
Unfortuneately he will be getting his pension soon so we will most likely lose it.We are getting all our dental treatment done before then.

L xx

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As pregnant ladies get free dental care, I really think cancer patients should - chemo can really damage your teeth … what does anyone else think ?

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I agree with free dental and optical treatment after chemo. I’ve had to pay almost £1,000 this year to get my broken, chipped and aching teeth sorted. Never had any probs before. My eyesight doesn’t seem to have been affected though. I have a policy with a health scheme and get £120 back per year but goes nowhere near to meeting the costs.

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Angie:"As pregnant ladies get free dental care, I really think cancer patients should - chemo can really damage your teeth … what does anyone else think ? "

I’ve been thinking about this comparison for some time.
Throughout 2 pregnancies, I had nary a problem with my teeth but since going through chemo I have had one snap off near the root. Now, that’s from a girl who hasn’t had to have any dental work done (bar polishing) for YEARS cos my teeth are so good.

And my eyesight seems to have deteriorated during chemo - an earlier thread revealed this this was a common theme.

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£100 on the credit card for some glasses for me. Did bogof too, luckily I like them. Both pairs.
I haven’t seen my dentist yet, not since chemo. I need to have a wage to pay to go, but the thing that still makes my blood boil is the Blue Badge thing. Why can’t we have a tempory badge for say, 1 year. Yesterday, some bloke getting out of a Jaguar in the blue badge space in our supermarket car park. With his big fat, lardy belly. looking at me as though I was a piece of shite and was moving a damn site quicker than me too.
Maybe i’m just better than he is?