Originally Posted by finz

I hope that between "cannot perform any work that requires sustained attention" and "she is unable to perform any meaningful work" that will be enough for the SSA. I definitely believe that the updated info from your doc on why the seizures have not been able to be managed as one might have hoped when you were first diagnosed will help your case.

I just wish doctors would help us get disability benefits by telling the SSA what they want to hear, what they have asked for, not whatever the docs feel like writing. The SSA wants to hear the docs determination on what a patient can or cannot do, then they want to ask a vocational specialist (which a MD is not) what jobs a person could do with certain limitations.

The SSA asks for a RFC form, not stuff like:

She places the following restrictions: "no driving, no swimming alone, no heights, heavy machinery, no working near stoves, etc"
I "support her appliction for disability"

Why not simply tell the SSA the info they asked for ? "The patient cannot walk, stand, or sit for ANY predetermined amount of time because of her frequent seizures and post ictal states." That "RFC" info, along with the info about your medical condition and how it affects you.....including your fall risk, requiring assist with ambulation due to fall risk, neeing to be able to lay down due to weakness and to manage severe headache pain, inability to concentrate with frequent periods of only partial awareness , etc (She said that they will be lifelong and poorly controlled, even with medications, and NOT likely to improve or enter intoo remission. She verified that it has been diagnosed with an EEg with myclonic epilepsy with a normal CT scan and NOT responding to usual seizure medicines, infact, making the seizures worsen. She then went on to list what medicines and doses I am currently taking, and stated that despite these, I still have major motor gran mal seizures 2 times a weel with staring spells/partial awareness multiple times per day with daily headaches)

Fingers crossed for you nicd !