Try being 5' 10'' and ex powerlifter weighing in now at only 200. When I first started seeing the doctors I was 250 and solid. They thought I was faking for sure. Even with pictures of the surgeon screw up they thought I should be healed. So yes Mark, we have it harder then ever. Especially when you seem to look healthier than the doctors.

I prolly could have bench pressed all of them at one time lol. The look on their face when they find out they had to get a bigger blood pressure cuff was priceless, but really hurt my believability.

7 years has passed and it is getting a little easier as my body is starting to show the ravages of RSD, and the evidence piles up. It is to bad they ignore emg's, ekg's, angiogram photo's, our word, and consider us just a bunch of drug chasing losers.

I hope one day they will find out they were judging a book by its cover, instead of by its content. Like we wanted to take a cut in salary to chase disabilty pay. I know I did.