Hope you're able to get it all sorted out. It's ridiculous, the hoops you have to go through for Unum. Filling out the same paperwork over and over, being forced to see their bogus medical "professionals" who claim you can work, getting repeated phone calls just to make sure you are home, being videotaped whenever you leave the house.

I've got a long-term disability insurance company too, and they terminated benefits this month. They claim I have somatoform disorder despite seven years worth of medical records to the contrary. This is so they can use their 24 month mental illness limitation.

I'm fighting them and have a lawyer involved. Not just for me, but for all the genuinely disabled people whose claims they have denied. The part that really sucks is that I'll probably have to go without benefits for a couple of years while we reach some kind of settlement, and I have no idea how I will survive financially until then.

Glad you have a good GP at least. Now if you can just find a competent specialist, that should really help.

Let us know how it goes.

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