Re: OT: SSDI (was raising funds for treatment?

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Thanks Jim,

's story was very interesting!

Khaya

>

> Hi Khaya,

>

> Both symptoms and what someone can or can not do on a daily basis is

> supposed

> to be the criteria that's supposed to be used for SSDI... For a while back

> in 2006, after the

> IDSA (Infectious Disease Society of America) posted its new Lyme guidelines,

> more Lymies were getting denied if Lyme was the disease listed as their

> disability...

> Many were quickly changing their dx to something else more SSDI friendly..

> Has that

> changed, I don't know...

>

> Symptoms only state you have an illness, not necessarily the degree of

> illness, what you can't

> do on a daily or regular basis is strongly taken into account. If your

> symptoms say keep you from making

> three meals daily, then how can you type a letter at a job?

>

> This member of our group wrote out a good tutorial of what the SSDI is

> looking for,

> she was approved on try #1..... What she could or could not do daily was a

> big

> part of it..

>

> http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Lyme_and_Rife/message/8323

>

> --

> Take care,

> Jim

>

>

>

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> The speaker I heard said symptoms are more important than a diagnosis in

> getting

> approved for SSDI. It's the symptoms that affect the ability to function.

> Khaya