would a tooth infection count?
Right before my eyes got bad my back moler started to kill, but then my vision got so out of hand that I loss focus on the tooth..
Needs removed asap... But can that even be possible while on steroids, since it shuts down immunity??

I am so very sorry you are going through so much! :hug:

Did you hire a disability lawyer when you applied for it the last time? That's what I had to end up doing, and it worked.

IVSM is so strange, especially the side effects. When I get it, I totally lose my appetite and I can barely stay awake.

I hope it works for you!

I did get an attorney last time.. He did nothing, even at the hearing I did all the representation. I feel this time, I should do it all by myself. I was denied last time at the hearing because I made 100 over the limit the last 3 months of the year.. Now I am out of work til eyes get better and when they return I will only be allowing myself 15 measly hours a week..
I wish we could at least charge MS rent for using our bodies :cool:

Aw, that's a tough one to have this stupid disease AND have to fight for assistance! Gee whiz:(.

Hoping and praying that things work out for you.

With love, Erika

My lawyer was mostly useless. Social Security refused to pay her entire cut of the proceeds when I finally got disability 3 years after starting my quest for it. I had to do most of the work. She almost missed a deadline. My records were lost and my congressman had to find them (twice). I learned my lesson not to trust the MS group (I forget which one it was, the big one), because I informed them of my misery and they still had this lawyer as a speaker at gatherings. Good thing I had my husband to live off of while I tried to get Social Security. I fought hard to get this disability, perhaps would have been better off living on my husband's salary and then retirement, but I was determined to have justice. I got my private disability (through work) the very day I applied for it, and had a physiatrist study of my capacity, which the physiatrist said was so bad that I could not work at anything, let alone teach in front of 90 students a day. I was at a low when the physiatrist tested me and could hardly lift two towels from one table to another. But my abilities improved after going on the Swank diet for a while, and not being under the extreme stress of work; but of course I could hardly make out the SSA forms because of eye-hand coordination problems, even when I had improved. Later my eyes improved completely, although hands still weak.

I hate the system. They say there are cheaters, but I wasn't one of them, and I fought to get it!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!

I am still out of work. My eyesight is not double anymore however it still takes a second, when moving my eyes from side to side, to see things properly in forward view, still gettin a lil dizzy, and behind my eyes still are very painful.. It kinda feels like my optic nerve is going to snap when I move my eyes. I am finishing my prednisone taper today..

I guess I still dont understand ms, thought FOR SURE my eyesight would be back to normal by now... Sigh...