A Question About SSI Drs... Help!

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In a message dated 9/11/2000 5:50:46 PM Pacific Daylight Time,

svanlaarhoven@... writes:

<< i desperately do not want

to go through the EMG & NCV ever again, i hope that

wont come up. >>

don't worry, No tests like that are done. SSI has a scale they go by

to determine disability. They look at your legs and hands. Do the stregnth

tests etc... It's nothing bad. It should be all the same as you have had

before. If you are denied appeal.

Most that apply for SSI have to see the SSI Drs.

jenny

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My SSI application has for the most part, gone

through, there were some serious problems obtaining my

medical records from the University, so it took longer

and everything. I have had the fortunate luck to be

dealing with a man at the SSI office who is nothing

but nice and tolerant of my calls & questions and all

that.

So... i have an appt. with an SSI dr on the 21st, and

i know i have a nervous disposition and all, but i'm

worried sick. What should i expect? The University

of Minnesota-Minneapolis lost some parts of my medical

records, i've been trying to get them for SSI for

months now. Its finally come down to an appointment,

or at least thats what the gentleman i've been talking

to at SSI tells me.

My physical evaluation and EMG/NCV results are gone.

They have my physical therapy reports, my Pain

Management stuff for medications i was taking and all

that, and my gene test, but thats it. I am a really

nervous person, and i'm worried about the whole thing.

My EMG & NCV that i had performed at the U of M was

the single most hellish experience of my life, mostly

due to the treatment i recieved from the doctors, they

were more interested in what happens if they shock me

with more and more electricity than they were with me

individually or the pain i was going through, one

experience i promised myself i wouldnt ever have to

repeat (if i get a vote) Will they do that again? Are

the SSI doctors nice, for the most part?

i'm just scared, and i was hoping anyone out there had

gone through this, had any advice that might make me

feel better. i've only got ten days to go... i

havent been able to get to the doctor enough to

document anything, when i got fired from my job, in

Feb. my insurance went out from underneath me. Is

documentation of the progression of my CMT since Feb.

something they'll expect? i desperately do not want

to go through the EMG & NCV ever again, i hope that

wont come up.

i talked to a lawyer i knew from a friend through my

job, and he told me documentation of the last

four-five months will be something they'll want. He

said he doesn't know what they do during evaluation,

since the situation differs from person to person. He

doesnt know anything about CMT, but everyone on this

list does, and some of you have had to deal with, or

are still dealing with Social Security.

i just thought i'd ask...

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