DUmmy wants SSI

[Carl]

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Boxerfan (655 posts)        Thu Mar-24-11 01:50 PM
Original message
I'm applying for SSI -But my case is "complicated"-Advice?-Have fibromyalgia w/ sleep complications
      

I applied last year & was denied.

My old doctor had run every test in the book trying to diagnose me for muscle pain & extreme fatigue.

I have an obvious sleep condition due to failed saliva glands after a tumor was removed. This requires me to wake 20+ times a night to sip soda water & quench my mouth.Also being a older male I have prostate issues so peeing is also something I have issues with.

I also have a torn tendon that was repaired but still keeps me from doing any heavy arm work(rt arm & I'm right handed). I now get a small disability check from a workmens comp claim-but that runs out in a few months. I have a host of issues -hemmerhoids & back spasm due to pinched nerve wich are miserable but not a constant.

My main issue is fatigue-in the last 4 years it has become severe to the point I had to stay in bed for a week at a time. It still happens but if I can excercise I do & that helps.

I have to dose myself with caffiene to be functional at all in the AM. I have good days & bad days but I can not schedule them.

I also have been self medicating for my entire adult life with pot. Luckily I qualify for it but that does not protect me from pee testing.

I went to have my BP medicine refilled. My old Dr. had moved & the new Dr. actually had reviewed my charts(wowza!). He asked if I knew about fibromyalgia & gave me some info. Upon reading the info-I realized this is what I was dealing with. I could have written the pamplet.

So on my 2nd visit he gave me a diagnosis that I did indeed suffer from the condition.

Problem is-He won't say I'm unable to work. Its a gray area he says.

I am able to function some mornings & definitely for no more than 4 hours. But I can't tell wich days-Also muscle pain & sometimes inflamed bowels keep me from doing anything even if I am "awake".

My energy is a well so to speak. I can dip deeper at times but I will pay hell for it later.

Then there is the fact I need my medicine to survive at any functionality-and employers don't like my choice of medicine.

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So-
Thanks for reading this far & what are my chances?. I hate to loose part of my claim to a lawyer-but if thats the only way I can get my coverage-so be it.

 

[franksolich]

Hmmmmm.

[longview]

Golly.  If he would put some of the effort he's using trying to think up ways to get a social security check into finding a productive place in the world, he'd be working in no time.  If he can't think of anything, a visit to his state's vocational rehab department would help.

I'm always amazed at the differences between people and what they value.  Some go to extreme lengths to stay active and do some form of work, or contribute something.  Others want to drop out as soon as they hit a challenge.  I believe this guy has everything wrong that he claims, but I could introduce him to people who have and continue to overcome worse and are happy with their life choices.

And, when people insist they need to smoke dope, as opposed to taking marinol, I call BS as to their "medical need."

[Thor]

My situation is similar. However, I don't smoke dope or take "marinol". In the long run, I'd rather have an actual job.

[Vagabond]

Oh this Dummie will qualify alright.  Nothing like a little uncurable, unverifiable disease.  Throw in a little irritable bowel syndrome for the win, and hop on the gravy train.  At least until the train jumps the rails and kills the people on it.

There was a woman that worked for years as a secretary at the Sherriff's Department in Escambia County, without discussing her condition I am willing to guarantee she hurt worse every day than this DUmmie ever has.

[GOBUCKS]

This DUmmy doesn't want a job because he wants to stay high. He sounds like one of Bernie's terminal neighbors. Who's been paying for all that dope?

[jukin]

You know what just might be better for the DUchebag and society?

Yeah you do.

[Ballygrl]

I have an obvious sleep condition due to failed saliva glands after a tumor was removed. This requires me to wake 20+ times a night to sip soda water & quench my mouth.

Wrong! the removing of a salivary gland or a partial gland doesn't cause excessive thirst because the other gland picks up for the lack of saliva, dry mouth can be caused if the person needed to get radiation after the removal of a benign or malignant tumor. The excessive thirst could be because of diabetes. Also if the person does have some dry issues of the mouth they need to buy Biotene mouth wash.

 

[Ballygrl]

Oh this Dummie will qualify alright.  Nothing like a little uncurable, unverifiable disease.  Throw in a little irritable bowel syndrome for the win, and hop on the gravy train.  At least until the train jumps the rails and kills the people on it.

There was a woman that worked for years as a secretary at the Sherriff's Department in Escambia County, without discussing her condition I am willing to guarantee she hurt worse every day than this DUmmie ever has.

The Hematologist I worked for felt that Epstein Barr Virus was basically a made-up disease with absolutely no Medical proof that it existed. I think he'd probably feel the same about Fibromyalgia.

[MP_Sarge]

He's been self-medicating a dry-mouth problem with pot?

Really?

 

[Ballygrl]

He need to use Biotene Mouthwash, it's a thick formula made for people who have medical issues or suffer from dry mouth. If that doesn't work he needs to get a Prescription Mouthwash.

[MP_Sarge]

Or, y'know, quit using a drug KNOWN for causing dry mouth.

[Ballygrl]

Or, y'know, quit using a drug KNOWN for causing dry mouth.

WOW! I didn't know that pot could cause dry mouth, and he's blaming it on his salivary gland?

[MP_Sarge]

http://www.cannabismd.net/dry-mouth/

Dry Mouth is a common condition associated with inhalation of marijuana smoke

[franksolich]

Or, y'know, quit using a drug KNOWN for causing dry mouth.

Uh huh.

Thank you for pointing that out.

[MP_Sarge]

Uh huh.

Thank you for pointing that out.

I'm not familiar enough with your "speaking" style to determine if that's sarcasm or not, and if it is sarcasm, what it would be directed at.

I suppose I could err on the side of "way to point out the obvious, MP", but it seems easier to ask what you meant.

[NHSparky]

I see shit like this, and then I think of my father--64 years old, Stage 4 lung cancer, on chemo, doing radiation, and STILL dragging his ass to work EVERY.  ****ING.  DAY.  He may not have been able to put in the 7-12's he had a couple of years before but he did every bit he could, because his wife and his company depended on him.  His company had to damn near DRAG him off the job and put him under home hospice care for the last 3 months of his life.

And you ****ers want to get paid to sit on your fat, pot-smoking, non-working asses on MY ****ing dime (as well as my father's?)

Go **** yourselves, then go play in traffic.

[franksolich]

I'm not familiar enough with your "speaking" style to determine if that's sarcasm or not, and if it is sarcasm, what it would be directed at.

I suppose I could err on the side of "way to point out the obvious, MP", but it seems easier to ask what you meant.

It's a compliment.

Being a moderator, I can't say anything bad about what anybody says (other than the primtiives).

And so when I do comment, it's complimentary.

[Carl]

I see shit like this, and then I think of my father--64 years old, Stage 4 lung cancer, on chemo, doing radiation, and STILL dragging his ass to work EVERY.  ****ING.  DAY.  He may not have been able to put in the 7-12's he had a couple of years before but he did every bit he could, because his wife and his company depended on him.  His company had to damn near DRAG him off the job and put him under home hospice care for the last 3 months of his life.

And you ****ers want to get paid to sit on your fat, pot-smoking, non-working asses on MY ****ing dime (as well as my father's?)

Go **** yourselves, then go play in traffic.

My father was digging manure from an old stall in the barn for the garden he was planting when he had the heart attack that caused his death 2 weeks later in 1995.
He was 89 and better then half way to 90.

He lived through the depression and despised FDR until his last breath.

[NHSparky]

My father was digging manure from an old stall in the barn for the garden he was planting when he had the heart attack that caused his death 2 weeks later in 1995.
He was 89 and better then half way to 90.

He lived through the depression and despised FDR until his last breath.

If we have half the work ethics our fathers did, we'll be set.

[Ree]

Well he  best get used to rejection, their Drs and kiss smokin pot goodbye or when they  drug test you ya can forget SSI. See smokin may be legal where you are but SSI is Federal and it ain't legal with them.Now to get rid of the dry mouth.STOP SMOKIN DOPE YA DUMBASS...What ya got is cotton mouth.BTW DUmbass get ready for a 3 or 4 year  wait depending on  where ya live and how many  are applying.and if ya don't get a lawyer you're screwed.
Some meds will do that to ya too. I have it so bad my lips are getting chapped, but it's a small price  ya pay  to fix other problems.

[diesel driver]

So, basically, the Boxershorts DUmmie is a middle-aged, pot smoking, lazy, hypochrondriac who wants to "tune in, turn on, and drop out", at taxpayer expense.

I'll help him "drop out".  Come to Fayetteville, WV on the third Saturday of October on US 19 at the New River Gorge Bridge.  I'll have a "special" bungee cord just for you.