Hi Doydie,

There are no customer service positions available because the company is doing away with many of them. And to get a management position I would have to have good sales to get into that, and those positions are more stressful and also involve a lot of standing.

I got a good person with MetLife on Friday and got his direct number. I received some paperwork today from them stating if I'm not eligible for STD then I might be able to take a leave of absence and go on LTD while waiting for SSDI.

It sure does get complicated. I should find out of the STD is ok'd next week sometime.

Hi Wiz,

I'm sorry to hear you have to give up your job. That must be sooooo hard. I'm glad to know you have LTD. Good luck with the SSDI process. I remember when you were one of the early Tysabri people in this forum - always appreciated seeing you around. I don't come here so much anymore.

Thinking of you and sending positive energy. Wishing you the best!



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Thanks Natalie,

I'm currently taking Aubagio and several other meds to keep me going. The things that keep me from working are pain, bathroom issues, hand weakness and some cognitive issues. If not for those I could at least be good at sales while sitting at work.

Today I got a phone call from my doctor's office saying they faxed in the paperwork to MetLife. I can go over and pick it up to see what they said. I feel like I'm in limbo again.

My symptoms are complicated by arthritis, high blood pressure and cholesterol, low thyroid and B12. I also take a med called Evista because of an atypical result from a breast biopsy done September 2013. I have to take that until 2018 as a cancer preventative med. So with all of these expensive meds I take my insurance will be pretty expensive until I can get medicare to go along with SSDI.

I'm considering medical marijuana for the pain. I get so much pain from spasticity that I keep shopping for new chairs. Baclofen and tylenol for arthritis is what I use to manage it now.

So my doctor faxed in incomplete information. MetLife has tried to fax them a form for more information but the fax machine at the doctor's office is not working correctly. So I might not get the disability approved at all because of errors by my doctor's office. I switched to this neurologist because they are nice and close by. I am so discouraged.

I'm so sorry!! Seems like when it rains it pours.

It's so difficult to make others see the urgency in things that are important to us.

Do you have a fax machine at home? Or maybe a office supply store that has one (or a UPS store) that maybe they could fax it to you and you could take it to the doctor's office yourself? I know, it seems like a ridiculous thing to have to do, but maybe it will speed things up.

Hoping that they get their ducks in a row soon.

Well the STD claim was denied, and I appealed but it was denied again. I should have hired a lawyer but I was exhausted and depressed about the whole thing. I never went back to work and I was ultimately forced to resign on January 31st otherwise they would call it job abandonment.

I signed up for Cobra insurance which is cheaper than going on my husband's retiree plan.

I applied for SSDI in December but didn't submit it online until February. Every time I checked the status it said "processing". I called early last week and the person I spoke to looked into it and said it had been approved (!) so she did some things in the computer and said I should get a letter in 7-10 business days. I'm cautiously optimistic that she is right and it has been approved. But I won't believe it until I get the letter.

I can tell you one thing for sure, I will never purchase or support any product by MetLife. I still might see if I have any means for filing a claim against them with the state insurance board. Even if it just puts some pressure on them for being so heartless in handling my claim. I spoke to someone in HR before I stopped working and she said that MetLife does this sort of thing all of the time.

Wiz, I'm so sorry you can no longer work. I know how much you enjoyed your job and you were good at it.

I'm glad you got approved for SSDI! That news must have come as such a relief to you. Many have to wait so long to get it. I got it on the 2nd try, which is typical. I hope that by having the SSDI, you can relax some and take care of you.