I have a herniated disc.
I need a hip replacement
I need shoulder repair surgury both sides
I have a tendon torn in my right carpel tunel.
All of these can be fixed.

BUT,I don't have the bucks to get them fixed!!!!!!!

So ,Can I get dissability??? Or will I be turned down because these things can be fixed?
Again There is no way I can pay for the repairs!!!

Sorry that things aren't going well for you right now.

You know all those tendon/ligament problems are probably lyme related.

I'm still waiting on my 3rd shoulder surgery but since I found out I have lyme now I know why I didn't recover from the last 2, so count your blessings there my friend.

Also have a totally screwed up ankle that won't heal either.

Just kinda think that you're biding your time until you get better then tackle the surgeries.

With both of my shoulder surgeries I developed tendon thickening cause of good old lyme.

This is how I look at it. I can't afford it right now either but at least it can be tackled after this more important battle.

Course, easy for me to say cause I'm only working part-time.

When I tear a tendon, I splint it if possible and try not to use affected limb as much. I take Vicodin and Zanaflex for pain and an over the counter anti-inflammatory.

Also try alternating hot and cold compresses to the affected areas. That's suppose to help with blood flow to the area and speed healing.

What I do is get an old sock, fill it with about a cup of rice and tie the end closely to the rice, but not to tight. Then I nuke it for a minute and instant hot compress. For the cold I just use an ice gel pack.

Hope this helps my friend.

I'd be mad too, if I had all that going on and no insurance

Maybe you could contact your local support group and see if they are aware of someone---disability advocate, or SSDI lawyer, who would take your case right off the bat

This way your paper work will be filed properly--and you may not have to go through 200 yrs of denial from the SSA system.

The doctors--if they support your claim---can connect the dots and state how and why you are disabled.

Others will come along with more advice, I'm sure, to help you out.

I feel for you.

My brother in law has disk problems in his back -- having surgeries and is considered disabled thru social security.

My best friend has knee trouble and needs a replacement. Dr's say she is to young (38) but yet, social security disabled her due to her knee problems.

maybe there is hope for you.

I'm sorry about your situation , wish I could help in a real helpful sort of way, but I'm afraid I can't. But, I do hope it works out somehow!

sorry all that stuff is going on for you. i too have connective tissue disease, i feel for you...

In the links, look for the FEMALE DRS. DETAILED info she attached to her SSDI app and was approved on the 1st step on 1st try!

She gives wonderful examples of things you are NO longer able to do. MD, it's not about having surgeries to do this & that..

It's WHY you can't perform you job. Read the below carefully.

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Just fillout the disability forms, and submit them. They'll set you up with appointments with appropriate docs.

Good luck,

I totally disagree with your statement.

The better you prepare for this knowing what you are getting into the better off your case of WHY you can no longer do any type of "sustainable work for 12 months" will HELP you be approved the 1st time around.

We have invisible illnesses; they reject them every time. THEIR drs. are there to help SSD/DDS deny you...not to examine thoroughly you.

Been there, done that for 4.6 yrs.

Bettyg, Iowa

Are you still working? If you are, you might be turned down. You will need a doctor to say you are totally disabled in writing. Then you should not have any problem. Most people do not have this in writing from a doctor and are turned down right away.

Mammalyme,I havent quit yet,i am trying to get things in order financially first. I will loose even the very poor health care that I have,upon quiting.

I don't have a doc. that will put it on paper that I can't do my job.

If you are approved for disability, you wouldn't get medical coverage for a year from the time you are approved, so the best bet is to see if you might qualify for Medicaid (or whatever your state has) to help low-income people afford medical care.

Good luck. It really sucks that you are in all kinds of pain trying to deal with all of this.

Here's the link for medicaid information:

http://www.odjfs.state.oh.us/forms/pdf/08102.pdf

Maddog,

Please accept my sincere apology for making the process sound so perfunctory..."easy"...
I should not have replied to this post at that time as I was mentally fatigued, and physically exhausted. That was a bad post.

The process is not as my prev. post might imply, and I went through major assaults on my psyche,both from family, and the contacts I had in the process of application. Major assault on my self-esteem; they will brook no chance to demoralize, humiliate, you and wear you down.

Bettyg is absolutely right.

I'll add more, which is probably redundant:

Take pictures, video. Photocopy pictures, and keep originals.

Show writing material of your spelling mistakes.

Got official documentation where you wrote the wrong year, crossed it out, and put in the correct year?

I once mis-spelled my own last name;too many times, I wasn't sure what year it was, and hope I don't get that way again.

I have exam booklets, and notes wherein you can see both the steps taken to correctly/incorrectly solve integral calculus problems, and arithmetic mistakes!

Save that piece of paper where you did the arithmetic operation, other than the intended one. Checking account errors?

How did your handwriting change?

Broken plates, dropped mugs, tea cups, banged your shin, or top of your tibia moving in/out of the car, and the pain was way more intense than expected for that kind of bumping into an object.
Turning,only to walk into door the jam door jam?
Tripping up and down the stairs?
Putting things in the refrigerator that don't belong there, like the tea kettle, and/or you happened to catch yourself doing this?

Asking personnel at the supermarket to get something for you, because....

Leavingshopping cart at the end of the isle, walking into isle to get item, to minimize joint pain on pushing cart.
Using handicapped shoppping cart, and feeling every g.damm bump in most of your spine?
Joint pain standing on snow ice, or uneven ground(lawn)?
Just some of my experiences.

I pray that your future computers won't look like this one:

Breep-breep!

Glad you were not upset I took issue with your earlier post. We all have days when we are brain dead here vs. our better days!

I work with 6 addicted people 2 0f which are chain smokers.Today I watched one of them ,I call him Stew ! First name Stew last name Pidity. Pull a gas tank ,and light up a cigarette right beside it,with gas dripping on the flore.

I allmost wan't a fire to happen it would end this nightmare, burning my workplace.

I gave the owner of my workplace a doctor excuse stating that due to a cronic illness I should not be subjected to second hand smoke.they ignore it!!!

I await my lung cancer ,that will get me dissability. MADDOG