I wish YOU had been my examiner. I left messages for my examiner and was never called back. When he finally picked up his phone one day he told me that I should be getting a call within a couple of days to see an SSA doctor. No one called. I call back a week later to find out the status and left him a voice message (that he never returned). I wait ten days and end up speaking to his supervisor as he was gone for the day. She tells me that 'he really dropped the ball' and that she will have him expedite my case the next business day. Within two days I receive a letter and stupid me, I think it's a letter for a doctor's appointment, no, it's my denial letter!

When you left your message did you also leave your claim number? Claim numbers are what identifies you to the claims examiner.
Your claim number is at the top right or middle of the initial application and all other paperwork that you receive from SSD.

I always kept in contact w/my claim examiner every 30 days during the 3 1/2 years it took me to reach an ALJ hearing. Each level I had different claim examiners.
At the ALJ hearing that is when I hired an attorney, so I stopped calling SSD. The reason is that when you are represented by an attorney, the claims examiner will not discuss your case PER YOUR ATTORNEY's INSTRUCTIONS.
If you want to speak w/your claims examiner while represented, you must instruct your attorney to allow this. Remember, the attorney works for YOU! Not the other way around.

No, I did not leave my claim number as he never requested that information during our conversations, just my name. I had only one claim examiner.

I am not represented by an attorney.