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Originally Posted by LIT LOVE
Thanks Don!
Karen,
What your doc(s) has to say and what your medical records document is only the first hurdle, but it is an important hurdle.
My one warning to your specific situation, is that by applying so soon after your RSD began, you're in the time window with the greatest chance for remission (a very good thing for your health, but it might delay your approval.) You've protected yourself by filing quickly, but it is hard to predict how the disorder will effect you long term. RSD patients can get better, stay the same, or get worse...
You're in active treatment. You're optimistic (I hope) about your chances for remission. SS wants documentation that you have a severe disability that will keep you from doing any type of work for a (very) long time.You might (fingers crossed) be one of the lucky few for which RSD does not become a life long battle. There's the rub...there is no way to know.
You should (in theory) be able to get approval now while you're RSD is acute and then go back to work if you get better. Because so few SSD recipients ever return to SGA, SS seemingly prefers to delay approval if your long term prognosis is unclear.
They'll award you a closed period of backpay later on, rather than award you now, and try and catch when you improve.
Hope this helps.
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Lit Love, I can't tell you how much your input has helped me!! You really have givin me food for thought. My Aunt is the one who advised me to go ahead and file quickly. She has Lupus, RSD, and Fibromyalgia. My Mom has Fibro and RSD as well. Anyway, my neurologist actually did the finger wag in my face last month, "Karen, if you would have come to me in the first month or two, you would of had a better chance of beating this". Well, like most RSD people, none of my other docs would listen to me about my symptoms. So I did not see a neurologist until I already had had RSD for at least 6 months. I now go to a PM doc and I am having my 1st series of nerve blocks. Had one on Friday and it helped for almost 24 hours in my right foot. I am trying to have a positive attitude, but the RSD has now spread to both feet, ankles, up to my knee on right leg, and both of my hands. Thanks again for all of your advice, really. I will try to stay positive and keep on fighting this.
Karen