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A blog by a former social security disability claims examiner about social security disability and SSI Disability issues and questions, but also general, health, and medical news.

Thursday, December 20, 2007

Past Posts

Here's a list of past posts to make finding them easier

If I get disability benefits, will my family or kids get benefits?
When You Apply For Disability Do You Get It From The Day You Were Disabled Or The Day You Apply?
Why Will A Social Security Disability Application Get Denied?
Social security disability SSI and living donors
Employed But Have Trouble Doing My Job, Can I Apply For Disability?
If You Have A Lawyer Will He Gather The Evidence For Your Social Security Disability Case?
What Happens If You Apply For Disability And All You Have IS Old Medical Records?
Can You Apply For Disability If You Used To Get Disability But Went Back To Work?
What does Social Security disability Consider to be Basic Work Activities?
Every Classroom Has ADHD
Will Social Security Disability Benefits Stop If I Work?
New, Approved Drug to Treat Both Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder
If You are Approved For Disability - The Award Notice
Social Security Awards SSD and SSI Benefits For Severe Impairments
High Hopes For A New Lupus Treatment
The Chances Of Being Approved For Disability Will Depend On Certain Factors
Do Disability Lawyers Have a set amount they can be Paid?
Will I get Disability if my Psychiatrist says I can't Work?
Eight Things About Scoliosis
What sort of Forms are Used to File For Social Security Disability?
Eight Things To Know About Agoraphobia
Not Sure if You Will Be Found Disabled By Social Security?
Seven Facts About Parkinson's Disease
Will a Disability Lawyer Pay for Your Medical Records or Make You Pay?
Will A Diagnosis of Cancer Get You Approved For Disability?
Entitlement to Disability means verifying what you say is true (and that means medical records)
Applying for Social Security Disability and Hepatitis
Are you Allowed to Collect Social Security and Disability at the Same Time?
Applying for Social Security Disability or SSI with Chronic Pain
Social Security Disability Regulations
Is Smoking Linked to Multiple Sclerosis?
Applying for Social Security Disability and Schizophrenia
Giving Medical Evidence Records for a Social Security Disability Case, scenario 1
Are the eyes the windows to detecting metabolic issues?
Applying for Social Security Disability and Liver Disease
How Do You Pass a Social Security Mental Exam?
General Practitioners Need To Know About Hydrocephalus
Filing For Disability for Stress
Social security hearing representation
How does Social Security Disability Consider Your Medical
History?

Applying for Disability Through SSI, it is Evaluated The Same as SSD
When Does Social Security Schedule a Psychiatric Exam?
Depression and its link to Pain
Social Security Disability and Functional Limitations
Is Pollution Linked to Liver?
Social Security Looks at Disability to Be Totally Disabling
The Da Vinci Robot and mitral valve prolapse, lung surgery, kidney disorders, etc
What is the Difference between Social Security and SSI Disability?
Minimally Invasive Surgery For Mitral Valve Prolapse
Social Security Disability Appeals Time limit
Lyme Disease Cannot Be Passed On From Pets to Humans
Before you apply for social security disability...(consider these things)
Pancreatitis More Prevalent in Diabetics
Send in your Social Security Disability Appeal Asap
Lyme disease on the rise in U.S.
Putting Off The Decision to File for Disability Is Sometimes a Bad Call
Totally and Permanently Disabled, Why Can't I get Social Security disability?
When You are Applying for Social Security Disability Can You Own Property?
New methods to manage chronic back pain
Commonly Asked Social Security Disability Questions
Do Kids Get Social Security Disability?
Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Overview and Treatment
Can My Doctor Help Me Get Approved For Social Security Disability?
Neurofeedback Treatment for ADHD, Depression, and Anxiety
A Study Finds that Panic attacks do not Cause PTSD
Receiving Social Security Disability - How long can you receive it?
Why Does It Take So Long For a Disability Answer from Social Security?
Good cholesterol linked to lower MS disability
How Long Do I have After My Husband’s Death to Prove My Disability for Social Security?
How Difficult is it to Pass a Social Security Disability Re-evaluation (CDR)?
If I Win My Disability Benefits, When Do My Benefits Start?
Social Security Disability for Mental Disorders
Social Security Disability Deadlines
Effective New Therapy for Alzheimer’s
Don’t Miss Your Social Security Medical Exam Appointment
How Long Must I Wait For a Social Security Disability Hearing?
Pregnant Women with Migraines More Likely to Develop High Blood Pressure
What Will Happen If I Draw Disability Benefits, Work, and do not tell Social Security?
Don’t Miss Your Social Security Medical Exam Appointment
I Never Hear From my Disability Lawyer - Should I Get a New One?
How to find the "best" attorney for Social Security Disability?
Hypothyroidism Symptoms
Dystonia in the Eyes?
Can You Win Disability Without Going to a Hearing?
More Women than Men Have Migraines
More Than Cholesterol Affects The Heart
Can Vitamin B1 Reverse Kidney Disease?
Multiple Sclerosis: Using the Optic Nerve to Estimate Inflammation
New Gel For Eye Problems Due to Graves’ Disease
How to Claim Disability Benefits
Social Security Disability May be From Several Impairments, Not Just One
Face Pain and Trigeminal Neuralgia
Stroke is the leading cause of long-term disability
Will Social Security Award Me Disability if I Have Not Been to The Doctor?
Is Winning Disability From Social Security Quickly Really Possible?
Long Term Disability Insurance Companies Just Really Suck
Chronic Kidney Disease and Stomach Acid Induced Asthma
How Useful is Calling Social Security about your Disability Claim?
Ulcerative Colitis and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Animal Observation Holds Key to Understanding OCD in Humans
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Often Misdiagnosed
When do you get Your Back Pay From Social Security Disability?
Combat Back Pain With New Surgeries
Urgent Stroke Treatment
If I Am Awarded SSD - When Does Medicare Start?
Inaccurate Testing For Workers’ Compensation
Childhood Obesity and Aerobic Exercise
Filing an SSI Disability Claim for a Child
American Indians and Type 2 Diabetes
Ankylosing Spondylitis and Two-Vessel Umbilical Cords
What is in My Social Security Disability File?
Coffee, Diabetes and Shingles
Missouri Workers Compensation Laws
My Disability Application Was Filed in the SSI Program- Will I Receive Less Benefits?
Melatonin and Type 2 Diabetes
New Study on Back Pain Risk Factors
Is it easier to receive benefits for a condition listed in the blue book than one that is not listed there?
Leukemia Drug Helpful for MS, but is it Potentially Fatal?
Can High Doses of Vitamin B Help Neuropathy?
Social Security Disability Representative - When to get one and what it Cost?
Requesting a Social Security Disability Hearing
$1 million for Lupus
Gluten-Free Diet for Autistic Children
What Are The Steps to Applying for Disability?
Sleep Apnea and Cardiovascular Disease
A Pill for Multiple Sclerosis?
Ankylosing Spondylitis – A Progressive, Incurable Disease
Heart Attacks Caused By Rheumatoid Arthritis
What Happens After You Are Turned Down By Social Security Disability?
How to Prepare for Your Disability Hearing - resources and preparation
Children Carry Bipolar Disorder Into Adulthood
Disability Benefits based on Fibromyalgia, Bipolar Disorder and Rhabdomyolysis
Understanding Scoliosis Degrees
What is a Mental Impairment for Social Security?
Vaccinations, Diet and Asperger's Syndrome
A New Blood Test for Liver Disease: No More Biopsies?
What Is a Disability for Social Security?
Normal Working People and Alcoholic Liver Damage
How Do You Get Disability in Arizona?
Carpal Tunnel Treatment
Should you Hire a Non Attorney for your Social Security Disability Claim
Gene Variants Important in Bowel Disorder
Work and Qualifying for Disability Benefits
Beta Blockers Safe for COPD Surgery
Social Security Disability Claims in Oregon
Nature and Crystal Sounds Help De-stress Pregnant Women
What Should you do to Apply for Social Security Disability?
Social Security Disability Request for a hearing before an administrative judge
Magnetic Stimulation Approved for Depression
How to Get Approved for Social Security disability
What Causes Cirrhosis?
Would You Know if You Had a Panic attack?
You Should Appeal Your Social Security Disability Denial quickly
What Offers Carpal Tunnel the Best Relief?
Diabetes Type 2: Lack of Diagnosis in the UK
Social Security Mental Exam Questions
Proving a Social Security Disability Case
Can Children Have Bipolar Disorder?
Denied at a Disability Hearing, What do I do next?
Liver Transplants for Obese Children
Social Security Disability and to Qualify for Benefits
Cholesterol Education
Use Caution in Taking Your Meds With Juice
Social Security Disability Notice of Denial and what it means
Diabetes on the rise in Hawaii (and everywhere else)
New Studies on Myelin Repair for Multiple Sclerosis
Lawyers for Disability Claims
SSDI Benefits - Low first appeal approval rate
New, Minimally Invasive Back Surgery
Help for a Disability Claim
New Drugs and Lifestyle Changes for Fibromyalgia
SSDI — Do You Qualify for Disability?
Can you have a job When Applying for Social Security Disability?
Disability Decision — The Wait for Social Security
Multiple Sclerosis and Nicotinamide (water soluble Vitamin B3)
Do You Have To Quit Work To Get Disability?
Mental Illness and Social Security Disability
Mental Evaluation for Social Security Disability and SSI
What Conditions Does Social Security Consider to Award Benefits?
What Are You Allowed to Earn on Social Security Disability? (trial work period)
Social Security Disability and your Work History
To Apply for SSI Does My Psychiatrist have to Fill Out a Form?
Survey on Epilepsy Finds Lack of Quality Care
Social Security Disability Awards
Social Security Disability and Morbid Obesity
Social Security Disability Benefits and Memory Loss
Social Security Disability Claim was Denied, Should I reapply?
Disability Criteria - Medical versus Non-medical Social Security Requirements
Can I file for Social Security Disability when my Case is at the Appeals Council?
Will I be Sent to a Mental Examination for Social Security Disability or SSI?
Work and Social Security Disability
Getting the Right Doctor for Social Security Disability
Disabled According to Social Security Administration Standards
What if I am Turned Down by an Administrative Law Judge at a Disability Hearing?
New immune therapy gives hope to those with severe lupus nephritis
Consultative Examination for Social Security Disability - How Important is It?

What are the Steps to File a Disability Claim?
Does Social Security Disability Understand Headaches and Migraines?
Filing for Disability – What Should I Expect?
Will the Disability Back pay be in Installments?
What is Considered a Disability for Social Security Benefits?
Financial Problems Usually Occur in Social Security Disability Cases
What Can I Get in SS Back Pay?
What is the Average Time for an SSI Appeal?
Applying for Disability-How do I start?
Award Disability for Chronic Health or Mental Problems
Request a hearing before an Administrative Law Judge, is it worth it?
Considerations for Using a Disability Lawyer
Social Security Disability Medical Determination
Social Security Disability Mental Conditions
Should you trust the Social Security Disability Doctor?
Consultative Examination for Social Security Disability or SSI - TiPs,
How does Social Security Disability look at your Jobs?
Fish Consumption may lessen Lupus Symptoms
What Makes you Qualified to Receive Disability Benefits?
Social Security Disability Guidelines
Can Obesity Surgical Procedures Cure Diabetes?
You shouldn't get a lawyer for a Social Security Disability case?
How long does it take to get a Social Security Hearing Decision?
Artificial Disc Surgery Proves be Cheaper than Traditional Spinal Fusion surgery
Can you speed up a Social Security Disability Hearing Decision?
A Pioneer in Fibromyalgia research has Changed His Opinion About Fibromyalgia
What to do if Social Security Loses your Disability Appeal
Psynome – an at-home saliva test for bipolar disorder
Cervical Disc Replacement Superior to Spinal Fusion
The Long Social Security Disability Wait
Is Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Fading Away?
PTSD Increases Hospitalization Rates in Urban Poor
How to Win a Social Security Disability Case Fast
Does Abdominal Fat Lead to Dementia?
Carpal Tunnel Not Caused by Repetitive Use
Leg Pain could be Hardening of the Arteries
What is Bowen Therapy?
What if you don't meet a Disability Listing in the Social Security List of Impairments
Congestive heart failure: It's common but gets less press
Will you get disability if your doctor labels you permanently disabled?
Is Help on the Way for Cirrhosis Sufferers?
Filing for Disability Benefits with Social Security
Cancer Drug May Cause Heart Failure
Can you Own a Home and Qualify for Social Security Disability?
When you go to a Disability Hearing, will the Judge give you an Immediate Decision?
Non-Surgical Relief For Herniated Disks
Contact Social Security About Your Disability Claim
What does social security mean by other work?
How does social security define your past work?
SSI application denied at DDS - What do I do next?
Social Security Disability - are There Retroactive Benefits
Less Invasive Surgery for Back Pain Sufferers
Is Kidney Disease Linked to Sudden Cardiac Death
Losing a Disability Case - How to Lose an SSD or SSI Claim
New Drug Stimulates T-Cells and May Help Multiple Sclerosis
Heart Failure Raises Risks After Non-Cardiac Surgeries
If You Were Approved for Disability in One State Can You Move and still get benefits?
Will Social Security Understand What My Medical Records Have to Say?
Multiple Sclerosis and Vision
How can we ‘Stop Atherosclerosis in Native Diabetics’?
Caffeine May Help MS from Developing
Multiple Sclerosis and Vision
Avoidance of Back Pain
Are Alcoholism and Anxiety Connected?
Working and Applying for Social Security Disability
Can you get a second Social Security Disability Hearing if a judge denies you?
When should you get a Representative for Social Security Disability or SSI?
I Did All The Work On My Disability Case - Why Should I Pay My Lawyer?
Worker’s Compensation Rights
VA System Needs to be Updated
Will Social Security disability cover sleep apnea as a disability?
Will Worker’s Compensation Take Care of You?
Workers Compensation Issued Improper Payments
Worker’s Compensation Dental Treatment Non-Existent
Designer t-cells suppress multiple sclerosis in mice
Veterans Affairs Department Tries to Improve Claim Processes
Pilot Project for Disabilities Criticized
Massage may be more than Relaxation for Migraine Sufferers
The Social Security Disability Five Step Sequential Evaluation Process
Restricting Insulin Can Cause Women to Die Early
Multiple Sclerosis on the Rise in Children
Just a few comments
Genetic Susceptibility to shyness - the shyness Gene
Social Security Disability Articles page updated
Could Genetics be the cause of Lupus
I Heard That Social Security Disability Will Deny You Several Times
Disability Determination for Social Security Disability Benefits
Social Security Disability Forms and letters
Social Security Disability Application Interview
SSD Benefits, Depression, and Mental Testing
How Can You Prove a Social Security Disability Case if You Aren’t Able to Go to the Doctor?
Snore quietly and reduce your chances of cardiovascular diseases
What happens when Lasik Surgery Fails
Heart Disease on the Rise Once Again in the United States
Number of Strokes Among Middle Age Women Triples due to Obesity
Chronic Pain Alters the way the brain Processes Information
New Cervical Artificial Disc Surgery
Can sleep disorders signify other problems?
New Research indicates too many immune cells may trigger Lupus
For the sake of your own health, avoid depressed doctors
Virginia Disability Attorney
Should Type II Diabetes Sufferers risk Intensive Insulin Therapy
An Improved Understanding of Fibromyalgia may lead to Better Treatment Options
Social Security Disability Attorney Fee
Social Security Disability - Mental Impairment Qualifications
Budget shortfalls for Social Security still in budget
Qualifying for disability on the first application
Winning your Social Security Disability
Social Security Comparable to a 225, 000.00 retirement plan for an average retiree
Study find no evidence exists that supports a link between autism and vaccine
Social Security Disability Decision Process
Lyme Disease may result in very severe symptoms
SSD Reconsideration
Anti-seizure meds and the possible link to suicidal ideations
Does Premature Birth Increase the likelihood of Adult Disability?
Understanding Chronic Pain
Social Security: Congress just doesn't get it
Lessening MS frequency and exacerbations
Another Reason to get Representation for a Social Security Disability or SSI Case
Do I need to have a Representative at a Social Security Disability Hearing?
Fampridine and MS
SS Reconsideration
Requirements for Disability Benefits
Migraines and a Hole in the Heart
How long does it take for a reconsideration for SSI?
Management of migraines
Social Security Ticket to Work program
Eligibility for disability benefits from SSA
Sending the wrong forms can be costly
Reducing the Backlog for the disabled
Longer Lives for the Elderly
Wheelchairs vs Snowplows
Heart Disease Killing Young Women
Robot Befriends Disabled Children
A Call for disability rights
The ADA and Service Animals - Service Animals are not considered “Pets”
Sources of Fatigue
Disability Denial Costs More than Time
A New Generation of Disability Activists
Canadians Speak Out About Disabilities
Obtaining Disability Benefits for Wounded Soldiers
Chronic Fatigue, CBT, and Graded exercise therapy
Doubting the Existence of Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue



 

























Social Security Disability Prior Posts

Eligibility for disability benefits
How long does it take for a reconsideration for SSI?
Requirements for Disability Benefits
Representative for a Social Security Disability Hearing
SS Reconsideration
Social Security Disability - Mental Impairment Qualifications
Representation for a Social Security Disability or SSI Case
Social Security Disability Attorney Fee
Social Security Disability Decision Process
SSD (Social Security Disability) Reconsideration
Qualifying for disability on the first application
Winning your Social Security Disability
North Carolina Disability Attorney
Virginia Disability Attorney
Disability Questions 7
Disability Questions 8
Disability Questions Page 9
Disability Determination for Social Security Disability Benefits
Social Security Disability Forms and letters
Social Security Disability Application Interview
SSD Benefits, Depression, and Mental Testing




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