Applying for PIP from DLA

Hi i have just joined you & have just received the letter staing i have to apply for PIP as my DLA is coming to the end. I am 67 this year and have been on DLA for 25 years and was awarded this for life, wgmhich as we know DOES NOT APPLY NOW!!!How the goalposts move to any Governments advantage.

Im so worked up over this i have had Fibromyalgia for many years & before i was diagnosed (takes years at time) i had through my Doctor stating i had to give up working due to severe arthritis in my spine, spondalosis of neck and discs bulging. Obviously over time this has all deteriorated, i have never asked for more from DLA i was awarded high rate mobility and low rate care, i have been re assessed in the time of my DLA 6 times and gone through awful trauma through a person reporting me on numerous occassions to the Fraud Line, i know who it was but could not stop it, i had fraud investigation on my doorstep, visits from DWP investigators and called into local job cente to be interviwed by investigators, most of whom listened to me and took no further action, my last visit to them in 2004 the person who interviewed me was horrendous, i was left ahaking and felt like a criminal and told all my benefits would stop at the time i was still on incapacity benefit. All this made my conditions worse.
After a week i managed to do a letter to DLA stating all i had gone through over the years and if they didnt refrain from targeting me, i was consulting a Solicitor, as it was harrassment, each time i was interviewed i asked if it was a woman who reported me on the phone line, they did confirm it was a woman and i said surely they could check to see if the same voice.
I received a letter from them saying how sorry they were and i was left alone.
Having to now go through all the red tape again fills me with horror and already i feel sick and so worried.
Since joining you i have read some of the info which is very imformative, i think (and im laughing as i know my form will not go through without rejection or a face to face consultation ) i may qualify for the enhanced rate for care, but am worried over motobility i stopped getting a motobility car some years ago as realky thought i would have been re assessed much sooner!!!! Did not want to be in a position of having it taken away!!! But the section for planning and doing journeys does not apply to me and i only score 10 on the section as a whole, i walk with elbow crutches and have a wheelchair, what do i do
Any help eould be most appreciated. Thank you and sorty to be so long winded. Lesley

Thank you Gordon, i will certainly take your advice on board, i do walk with my crutch sticks and have pain all the time, so you are right in stating 20 metres, as pain starts as soon as i walk!! I consulted my Dr last year as i have constant pain down the outside of my leg, that has now radiated into the very top of inner leg, Dr stated on examination was my hip. I am on my state pension and have been since May 2011.
In my form when submitting additional info shud i state when i get up from sitting, that i have to stand for a minute or longer as my left leg is weak and feels it wont bear my weight and once i move pain is severe.

I cannot lie on my left side at all due to pain in leg and shoulder and obviously my back, using my left side crutch causes real pain in my shoulder and some days i cannot use it.

I know my Dr will give me a detailed report to submit with my form. Its just very difficult as so many others in my position know only too well how the trauma of the process puts you under so much strain and Fibromyalgia sufferers go through more pain due due to this stress. I am sure most will agree. Oh how i wanted to retain enough of the motobility compobent to allow me the independence and freedom of having a car again, but now fear this will be not possible along with the fight over the care side. Really despondent.
Thanks though, Lesley