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!

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

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...