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Social Security Disability Benefits
Does anyone from the United States know about receivind Social Security Disabilty? I just applied. I have a liver biopsy that shows piecemeal necrosis. My knodell score is 15/18. I said I was fatigued and unable to sit at the computer (my line of work) for more than 1/2 hour because of chronic fatigue. I also have depression and have been taking Zoloft for a few years. Do you folks think that this will "cut" it? Also, I did 15 weeks of Interferon/Riba and am a non-responder.
Merrie
Merrie
I don't think you can get social security for hep C which we have (liver disease) but that is just what I've heard.
While we are ill we are not completely disabled and not able to do some form of work.
I wish we could...I'd stay home on FLMA and get paid. That would be so much better than struggling to come in to work every day.
I'm no expert and someone else might come on with opposite news...it is what I've always been told though.
PS My hemoglobin went down 7 points in one week - have chronic lethargy without the anemia am on Paxill for depression, Epogen for the anemia, Interferon and Ribavirin for the virus and never sleep. BRAIN FOG like crazy. Have the rash all over my body and at least half of my hair has fallen out. But.....even though it's HARD to make it to work...it doesn't make me disabled enough to collect.
When I had brain damage and a broken back from a car accident years ago it took a LOT to get it to go through - and there was no physical way I could work since I couldn't walk or think.
It's like they don't WANT you to get it you know?
BEST OF LUCK.
While we are ill we are not completely disabled and not able to do some form of work.
I wish we could...I'd stay home on FLMA and get paid. That would be so much better than struggling to come in to work every day.
I'm no expert and someone else might come on with opposite news...it is what I've always been told though.
PS My hemoglobin went down 7 points in one week - have chronic lethargy without the anemia am on Paxill for depression, Epogen for the anemia, Interferon and Ribavirin for the virus and never sleep. BRAIN FOG like crazy. Have the rash all over my body and at least half of my hair has fallen out. But.....even though it's HARD to make it to work...it doesn't make me disabled enough to collect.
When I had brain damage and a broken back from a car accident years ago it took a LOT to get it to go through - and there was no physical way I could work since I couldn't walk or think.
It's like they don't WANT you to get it you know?
BEST OF LUCK.
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