Re: SSD Enough to make u Crazy

[Guest guest]

I have also had to file for SSD also, and for something we have paid into as

employee's all these yrs, they have no right to make it so hard to give it to us

when we need it. I have just begun the process, but know the length of time it

can take, even though my intake worker says, I should have it within a yr.

What! How do we survive until then. As it is 9 yrs ago it was suggested by my

Dr. that I think about it, I have heald out this long, and now it is very hard

on filling out the paperwork, only to hope I will be denied first time. Then go

through paying for help to get it. I just got papers to give to 3 persons who

know how I have been affected. Good Luck to all applying

Sharon

lindacaimi@... wrote:

When I was applying ss even lost all my paper work for a 1 1/2. Really

didn't care, that all that time I was waiting. I went through what you have had

happen and it is wrong. Some of the judges are terrible. Because I went to

school to try and get a history degree, the judge said I could work. When in

school I worked with the people who help people with disabilities. It took me

five years but they did lose my paper work. Just hang in there you will win but

it does take a long time.

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From: " chewalk " <tclyon@...>

I have been going through this process for over 3 years. I have RA,

OA, fibro, IBS, kidney dysfunction, depression. I applied when I

could no longer work, was denied, appealed, was denied, and am now in

my final appeal. It can take up to 3 years for the final appeal to

be heard. I really don't ever expect to get it, but I certainly

won't quit now. We have gone through all of my 401K and lost our

home since we bagan this process. I feel the entire process is

flawed and unfair. The appeal hearing officer said in his decision

that I could work at something, and I think if I can't do the job I

had had for many years that should be taken into account, but he

didn't. They don't care of you have to go from a decent paying

professional job to a minimum wage paying job. They don't care about

the people at all. I could go on for hours.

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> > My husband was diagnosed with RA 25 months ago, on his 49th

> birthday.

> > He's been denied SSD 2 times. We have an attorney:

Wasserman's

> > firm. We just got notice that our hearing befor the ALJ is next

> month.

> > The judge is Sally Reason. Does anyone have experince in this?

> >

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[Guest guest]

I am glad that I have copies of all my medical records since I was

first diagnosed w/ RA back in 2001. I just have SSDI for the past 2

years when it got worse. I should hear back from them any day

now...90 days after I saw one of their doctors. The government makes

it almost impossible for you receive it. There is nothing you can do

except rely on family to let you stay w/ them for free. I am living

w/ my mother for the 1st time since I was 17 and it is driving me

crazy. She hates my husband and won't let him live w/ us. He is

currently in another state trying to find work, but with the

economy...he hasn't been able to find nothing. Part of me thinks that

they do this whole drawn out process to make it impossible in order

to weed out those who don't want to work for a living. The catch is

that those of us who truely can't work...get jerked around for years.

I just hope that I am one of those exceptions.

> > >

> > > My husband was diagnosed with RA 25 months ago, on his 49th

> > birthday.

> > > He's been denied SSD 2 times. We have an attorney:

> Wasserman's

> > > firm. We just got notice that our hearing befor the ALJ is next

> > month.

> > > The judge is Sally Reason. Does anyone have experince in this?

> > >

> >

>

>

[Guest guest]

I haven't gotten to the point where I can not work (thank the Lord)

but all of you have my sympathy. I know the day will come when I

will have the same battle. What makes me really mad are cases like

my brother-in-law, who paid very very little into social security.

So little that he didn't even qualify for SSDI. He was capable of

working but chose to be paid under the table. He was however given

SSI which comes from all of us who have worked and paid. He even had

the nerve to complain to me that the government should give him more

money. I did point out however, if he had paid into the system his

SSDI would be more! Sorry, it is still a sore spot with me. I know

it makes it harder for the people who struggle to do what is right

and then still get turned down when they need and deserve the help.

My prayers are with all of you.

Nana

> > > >

> > > > My husband was diagnosed with RA 25 months ago, on his 49th

> > > birthday.

> > > > He's been denied SSD 2 times. We have an attorney:

> > Wasserman's

> > > > firm. We just got notice that our hearing befor the ALJ is

next

> > > month.

> > > > The judge is Sally Reason. Does anyone have experince in

this?

> > > >

> > >

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

It is sort of interesting, each time I read these posts about SSD. I was able

to get SSD immediately, no appeals, no SSN doctors. At the time I suppose I

could have been vocationally trained to do secretarial work, but I was unable to

do my current job.

When I read others complaining about the hoops, I wonder how good of doctor

notes their physicians are providing. I had a team of doctors: my GP, RD, and

Ortho all on the same page, providing SSD with whatever forms they needed. With

RA, it would seem rough unless you have extensive joint damage, multiple

surgeries, etc. They can't go on pain. If they did that with me, I would have

never received SSD as I have a high pain threshhold. I would probably laugh at

the pain some suffer with. It is all relative and there is no appropriate

meters to determine pain that cannot be worked through. Although this pinched

nerve thing in my knee is getting the best of me.

Or maybe it is just easier in land. I won't be on it for too much longer,

as I am trying to get my Special Education license. It is something I can

physically do (with a lot of sleep), and it sure pays better than SSD. Also

something I can do from a wheelchair when the time comes.

Shandi

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[Guest guest]

I have a friend of mine who hardly worked a day in her life who got

approved for SSDI because she has mild bi-polar. She sits at home

and babysits under the table. Honestly, I think she is just plain

lazy. It didn't take her very long to get approved. She lives in

the same state as I do and since she got approved so fast, I am

hoping it is the same thing for me...and I have alot more wrong with

me mentally and physcially then she does.

I know a few people on SSDI and they have said that they have been

disbaled for years, just to get the back pay even though they are

physically able too. My mom's boyfriends brother is that way.

Eventually, he won his case.

I was watching last night on A & E on Intervention about a young girl

w/ RA who was hooked on her pain meds. She was 26 and got approved

for SSDI when she was 21. It was real sad...what got me is that she

said she had RA, she had some visable joint damage, but when she told

the cameras what medication she was on...none of them were for RA,

except folic acid. No methotraxate, arava, plaquinel, nothing. She

was taking 2 oxycontins, 12 muscle relaxers, and 12 lortabs a day!!

I know I have a low tolerance for pain and I don't expect that I ever

will be " pain " free...I am generally about a 4-5 on a pain scale all

the time...some days are worse then others where I can't get out of

bed; unfortately for me, those bad days are starting to be the norm.

All I can do is hope for the best. I have my doctors behind my SSDI

claim...it's just a when will I get approved.

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> > > > > > My husband was diagnosed with RA 25 months

> > ago, on his 49th

> > > > > birthday.

> > > > > > He's been denied SSD 2 times. We have an

> > attorney:

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[Guest guest]

Ya know, after many years of working in the Welfare Department....

If the people who put this much effort into working as they did into

not working, they would be millionaires.

Just a thought.

Then, maybe, those of us who can't move, and are in pain from serious

chronic illnesses that aren't going to go away would not have to jump

through the hoops we have too to get the benefits we paid into.