Thanks Marse and Joe...

Joe, what I meant by finding out "what was needed for the functional assessments" I meant that rather than have my doctor write a letter and mention the things I was really having trouble with (standing, finger sensitivity, muscle spasms, balance, fatigue, etc.) he could use the form that I gave him and actually address each issue (the ones DDS really wanted to know about)... This is much better than the person at DDS or their doctors there "guessing" at what I could do based on just the diagnosis and test data that my doctor sent in... The things they "want" to know are really things that the normal doctor would not think to mention (how much you can lift, if you can bend, carry things, etc.)... There must be 30 or 35 of these functional activities listed on the forms...

I found the forms at the following site...

Look for "RFC Forms" in the menu list on the left side of the page... Click
on it and then on the right of the next page you choose whether you want the "physical" or "mental" RFC form... I like these because they seem to be SSA forms (printed by OMB - Office of Management and Budget for SSA)...

I only used the physical forms because I had not seen the person who prescribed the depression med. for me in about a year and a half... My PCP had taken over prescribing it... Also, they had me go to a local doctor hired by SSA to do a mental evaluation and he turned in his own report...

Hope this helps... Let me know if I can supply any more information...

Thanks again for the congratulations...
Aimee