Hello All,

I just wanted to share that I was approved today for SSDI, for CRPS I. It took 10 weeks to be approved. I am so excited and shocked at the same time! What a relief to have been approved so fast.

My atty. for my WC suit was surprised too. I applied for SSDI on my own behalf.


Dew

That is really great news. I am happy for you.

I wanted to say that around here, I have seen more get their SS faster without a lawyer then with one. I think it's because the lawyer does the talking and he doesn't really know the shape the person is in.

I had a lawyer and it took years to get mine. Bill got his within 6 months without one. I had a friend that dropped her lawyer of 3 years and got hers right away. I finally got mine without my lawyers help by writting to a State Rep and had it within a week.

I think too, that lawyers have so many cases that they just can't keep up with them.

Again, I am happy for you. Now you can relax some.

Ada

Dew,
That's incredible!
My congrats! (Yet of course, you know I wish you didn't need this).
I was self employed, and having children, bought private disabillty insurance. (Not covered by WC). So now, since one part of a policy is SS replacement, they want me to apply, and they "SAY" that they'll pay the costs.
What does SS pay?
All in all?
I know my disability will be reduced slightly, but only by what I gain from SS.
This is the insurance industry's way of shifting the weight.
But, what's fair is fair.
If SS owes it to me, so be it. It's been 25+ years.
I don't know how ANY of it works, and I'd love ANY kind of answers / input!

Thanks Ya'll!

Pete
ASB

dew i want to congradulate you on winning way to go.!!!!! i bet that is a relife for sure..
carrie

Thanks everyone for your feed back and congrats.

I am still in a state of mind that says, "WHAT???", as I have heard so many people tell me that they had been turned down again and again,..waited 5 plus yrs..so, I had hopes but was expecting a neg. reply.(So I wouldn't be so disappointed if I had been turned down).

I am approved..I Can BELIEVE IT..it did happen.

Wishing you all the best,
Dew

I'm so exicted for you. What a relief if must be to have this done. I hope this gives you a small measure of peace!

take care

april

Dreambeliever,
I am inclined to believe your point. My attorney is not fightinting for my RSD/CRPS she has no idea about the disease so she is having me do all kinds of things to prove that I cant work! I think the attorneys need a course on rare diseases!!!
tjbird

Hello Dew,

Congradulations!!! That's one less thing to have on your mind. I applied 2 1/2 years ago and was I was denied. I have been waiting for 2 years for a hearing to be scheduled. I was notifited this past Friday that they need my updated doctor's reports and they will consider my case again and I may not have to go before a judge. They must have got some stimulous money to hire some extra people to help with the mountains of paperwork they require (ha! ha! just kidding)
Take care
Sherrie

Congradulations Be glad you don't live in Virginia I am one of the people who has waited for a hearing DATE since August 27, 2008 for just a date. This August I will have been trying for SSD for two solid years, then again I truley believe I am getting a bum rap because my lawyer knows nothing about RSD, if I would have known that I would have gone with another. This is how I thought though, this attorney who ONLY does SSD cases could fight for me My next step of her agenda is that I have to go and have a hand test to prove I can't use them to work, is this outragous or what especially since I have had the carpel tunnel release in both hands and one is put together with pins and screws. what's the sign!?!?!?
Again congradulations
tjbird

I'm so happy for you!. And you did it on your own - you are an inspiration to us all

Grammadur