You really do have to watch how the paperwork is filled out......for example, did your doc write that you can only sit for 15 min max ? Did you then write on your 'typical day' form that you sit around most of the day ? Well,then there is a conflict which can lead to denial.

Did the doc write that you can stand for 15 minutes and sit for 15 minutes ? SSDI doesn't see that as you can only sit for 15 minutes....they see that you can stand for a total of 1/2 hour per hour and sit for 1/2 hour per hour....so you can do a job with 4 hours standing and 4 hours sitting per shift.

Do you actually sit for 15 minutes then stand for 15 minutes and keep repeating ? Or....if the pain increases when you sit or stand for 1/2 hour straight, do you have to go lay down ?

Do you have decreased mental acuity (brain fog) from the increased pain because you can't concentrate on work ? Do you get more spacey when you take narcotics and/or Neurontin/Lyrica etc ?

The ALJ told me not to give info about your best day or your worst day....to write about an average day......so if, say, on average you can't tolerate having shoes on for more than an hour a day (just guessing if the neuropathy affects your feet), then they need to find you a job where you can be barefoot

I know that I filled out some of those forms wrong, making it seem like I could do more. Obviously, my intent was not to make it sound like I was just fine........but I was so nervous that they would think I was lying or exaggerrating, as the WC people seem to feel I was, that I described my best days.........ie, saying I could stand up to 4 hours because I did do that once (in the 5 years I've been disabled) when I went Christmas shopping. I'm not going to write that I can only stand for about 10 minutes....which is usually about my limit, when I have stood for longer, but there is no room to explain all of it on those forms. Like on my big Christmas shopping day at an outlet mall....my sister drove, I was doubling up on the narcotics, and I was in bed for 3 days after that.......but SSDI ignores all of that, because I checked off that I could stand for up to 4 hours