From what my attorney explained to me, if your approval doesn't specify permanent disability, you have to be re-evaluated. He said it would be yearly, but it was five years before I got a form. All I had to do at that time was to answer the questions. It said I would be subject to future re-evaluation and/or exams.

One thing that is very important is to keep a yearly calendar or journal of all of the doctor appointments you have, when, why, what happened, and a list of medications - that should be able to be obtained from the drugstore. You have to continue to get follow-up visits, even if your doctor says this is your condition, we can't do anything for you, whatever. You have to prove there is a continuing problem. A lot of specialists won't consider a problem to be serious unless you are on medication.

I had to report the number of times I had been to doctors and hospital visits for the prior year. It could have been a lot worse as far as what I was required to do.