Press Release: SS Ruling for RSDS Claims
 

I just received this in my email this morning: I sure hope this link will be allowed.

http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/pres...ims-157760.php

It says at the bottom it should help more SSDI claims be approved.

DebbyV

The new release isn't new. See older thread.
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/sh...588#post668588

oops...........my bad
 

Sorry about that. I just got it in my email. I didn't think to look it up to see if it was old or not...........like I said......

MY BAD!!

DebbyV

Social Security Ruling 003-2P
 

Debby -

No bad at all. This is, in effect, brand new!

Whether promulgated in 2003 or last week, I am convinced that it's only been in the last year since it's actually being implemented within the system, without forcing everyone through a series of unnecessary appeals, so long as the patients' doctors have done their job:

A very key feature of the Ruling is its re-emphasis on the "treating physician rule." This concept provides that the findings and opinions of the treating specialist are entitled to deference, and possibly controlling weight, if they are supported and consistent with the clinical record. This again emphasizes the importance of consistent medical care with the appropriate specialists. [Emphasis added.]

But what I really know is that it worked for me on the first pass. So it's my position and I'm sticking with it.

Mike

Mike,
Thanks.............My GOOD then *LOL*

Well it best work for me this year. I again, am having to fight my long term disability insurance company to keep my LTD payments coming until I turn 62 in a few short 5 years. They told me I was determined 2 yrs ago that I am 100% disabled whether it is due to RSD &/or neuropathy in my feet. BUT my dumb but of a back surgeon made the mistake again of saying I was able to go back to work as far as successful back surgery went altho he added that I had an on going problem with RSD in both my feet that prohibits me from working. But I have a new agent & she is going to try again to make me go back to work. I couldn't get my old job back for nothing right now as there is a hiring freeze on at the county I live in & that is where I was working at the time this happened. Also my PM doc, Dr Wolfe, quit & went with a primary care group & I am not sure my new doctor will fight for me like he did. My new PM doc was one of his co-workers at the pain clinic I go to & he already filled out a form & sent it in to them.,

BTW I go in July for the lidocaine study at Stanford that I applied for. The research doctor, Dr Ian Carroll, even requested that I become one of his patients in the pain clinic & I just saw him last month. He wants an EMG done on my feet to see if any of the pain is caused by entrapped nerves & if so he would then send me to some specialists he knows to have them unentrapped (not sure if that is a word or not *LOL*). After that if the pain is still there he would like me to try having a lumbar nerve block done with Botox as I am a candidate for that due to the fact that when they did them in '04 I got relief until the lidocane wore off. In a study they did some people got as much relief from that up to a year. The problem being I would have to buy the Botox myself as my insurance won't pay for it & it costs from $250 to $300 a tiny vial. They would work with me with that I guess. So that is where I stand at the moment.

I am NOT looking forward to the EMG at all. He said it would not feel good that is for sure. Also, I have headaches on one side, shoulder pain & arm pain & he recommends some type of a muscle stimulator for that as he feels I have a thoracic nerve entrapped & that came from a car accident. Anyway I guess we will see where we go from there.

I am sure hoping that they go by what my actual treating doctor for my feet problems says. The darn idiots at the LTD insurance company............

All I know is I am so tired of being tired & if I forget my pills on time of my feet killing me...............I would rather have been working this whole time since April '04 instead of having RSD & sitting on my butt doing much of nothing............I can tell you & them that much.

Thanks again.............

DebbyV

Thanks sooo much for posting this...I am almost at the end of my SSDI claim...I have my last appt. in July so maybe it will go through, but if it doesn't, I like the fact that I will be a bigger amount in back SSDI...I am one of the lucky ones who doesn't have to work, because my hubby has a great boss...his boss, just GAVE us a 2005 Malibu..and he gets bonuses all the time. I pray for those who aren't so lucky and thank God for what I have.....Love to you all!

Cindi:)

Cindi,
You are so very much welcome..............

Yes you are one very lucky woman............you have many blessings...........and I guess in the long run we do also in some ways & not so much in others. Even tho we are both on SSDI. We do make it each month.

DebbyV