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Originally Posted by painman2009
I had a hearing to try to get PT and john hopkins approved and this was just a cple of weak ago. NT THEY DID APPROVE IT now the carrier is requesting a hearing stating they have some evidence that will change my benefits.. the only thing I did was a little painting of my house. (It was a good day. pain levels around 7 but in lesser parts of my legs and feet. I suffered pain afterwards as Im sure you all understand y. Now my dr )neurologist) said to keep trying to do the maximum I can do and try to work through the pain. and this is what I do, my atty would prefer I do nothing all the time. If I do that then you might as well just shoot me in the back of the head now and put me out of my misery.. Im nervous now, and stressed. ever since I opened that letter from comp about the hearing my hearts in my throat and my pain levels in every part is escalating. its seems like a now win situation for me . top it off is I cannot sw my atty until monday so now Im stuck with this hovering over me like a lead cloud ready to crash down and burst my head open. My wife kept telling me to go inside, ( I should have listened then I wouldn't be stressing...  |
How awful for you! I'm so sorry. It will be best to be prepared for the worst but you don't actually know what they have yet. It might be a video of you painting...or it might be that they had some specialist review your records and make an opinion about the need for physical therapy. I think reluctant has it right...see if you can get a written opinion from your doctor about the nature of the condition and the need for using it as much as possible to prevent further damage. Especially if you are being DENIED physical therapy by WC...you need to get that activity SOMEHOW. Better that it was in a physical therapy routine under the direction of a physical therapist...but without activity of SOME sort you will completely lose all use of your RSD areas so you do what you can when you can.
Well...reluctant went over it all really so I won't rehash it all. But please take care of yourself and keep fighting for your benefits. I have been in your situation where they deny treatments or put off providing benefits and it is INCREDIBLY stressful. In my case though they never sent letters advising me of termination of benefits...they would just stop providing them for no reason. Trying to get my lawyer to do anything was almost as stressful as having no benefits. Such a crummy situation. And then I started gettng collection notices from doctors they never paid...ugh...talk about stressful! But you do need to try and stay as calm as possible. Stressing won't make the situation any better so if there's anything you can do to try and keep your mind off all of this until Monday when you can see your lawyer then that would be best. I know...eaiser said than done...but try.