Hi Hopeless,

Thanks for the link. I agree with what you wrote below. I gave a 2 page form to both my shrink and my neuro yesterday. These forms were created by my law firm. Shrink took it no problem and seems as if he will support me on my claim.

My neuro was 'What is all of this? This is subjective . . . '. I felt like saying, 'Well . . . we got OBJECTIVE data from one of your peers here at the hospital stating that on 2 of the three test sites on my body - that I was outside the range . . . and therefore have small fiber PN, but that does not seem to matter either...' Cooler heads prevailed, I kept my mouth shut. He handed the two page doc to his nurse.

My brother who has been a GP doc for about 30 years told me, "I hate those dumb forms." He stated his many reasons why. Then he told me, "Do you docs a favor. You fill it out. Then when you hand him the blank say . . . my brother is a doc and he hates filling out these things because they are time-consuming and subjective. Do him a favor. You fill one out. You had him the blank one and the filled out one and say something like this, 'My brother is a doc . . . he told me to fill one out ahead of time . . . not to tell you what to put on the blank report . . . just to show the you (the doc) how I would honestly fill one out on myself.'

The idea being, cut down on the doc's time by him looking at the form you already filled out. Bro said tell the doc something like, "if you have any questions about anything on put on the form you could ask me now or later. I'm simply trying to make this request from me - easier on you, should you choose to do it for me."