SSDI/Pain/liver involve...

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Some input about SSDI filing:

FYI: If one is likely to qualify for SSDI, one should apply for it as soon as

they can beat feet down to the SSI office and pick up an application!

In the case of California, as they have good state disability, one can apply for

SSDI in the same time frame they are starting the State disability.

It usually takes about 2 years for SSDI to get a person into the system, and one

DOES benefit from a lawyer who specializes in that field.

Meanwhile, that CA State disability can fill in a few gaps for that first 2

years...and that is about as long as that program will last.

I filled out the paperwork, figuring it was really spiffy and completely

convincing. Surely they would just process it and make it so. Not!

When I got the first " turn-down " letter, I called a lawyer. Learned there are

usually at least 2 turn-down letters from SSDI. The turndowns are dodges to

stall for time, hoping you will give up your quest. They have a habit of not

reading documents properly, losing documents, and not doing their jobs. You and

your lawyer must be persistent, and persue it.

The trial date is nerve-wracking. But not the end of the world. Some judges

grimly speak to you as though you are the biggest fraud in the nation, trying to

intimidate. All persons who work for SSDI system have a mandate to make it hard

to get SSDI.

SSDI figures, if one is able to earn $700/month, gross income, from any sort of

work, one is not disabled! [right! like that covers rent, utilities, food, meds,

etc.!]

The other weirdity is, the SSDI job-finder is charged with looking for a job for

you --anywhere in the country--, right during the trial--if one exists that you

can do, anywhere, they will disqualify you from SSDI. They do not care if it is

stringing beads in the hinterlands!

Your disability lawyer should cue you about how to behave while in your hearing.

It is very helpful, as it can make or break your case.

Pain is usually a subjective condition, that is hard for anyone else to measure.

If it causes increased blood pressure, sweats, or other such measurable,

non-controllable symptoms, that is documentable, and needs to be in your

records. The better documented things are, that impair your ability to get,

hold, and keep, a job, the easier it is for them to decide in your favor.

Questions:

If medications are cleared by liver, most often, and kidneys, secondarily, and

all meds seem to impact the liver, to some extent....and since the liver is

often a problem with pancreatitis...doesn't the taking of much pain meds further

compound the problems with the weakened systems?

Blessed Be,

Connie

Oakville, WA