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Hello everyone,
I have finally decided to try for SSDI and have an interview next week. I'm not sure what to say. My details are, 62 and about to get my first retirement check in August since I decided to not work anymore. Diagnosed with, insomnia, MDD, Fibro and anxiety. Taking all the normal pills, blood pressure, triglyceride lowering med, Ambien, Xanax, hydrocodone, Cymbalta, Lyrica, Singular, vitamins, fish oil, flax seed, garlic pills. I have diagnosis of fibro from one rheumatologist and another as a second opinion. The first gave me just Lyrica and the second just Hydrocodone. My PDoc gives me PMeds.
I asked SS to interview me by phone since I rarely drive. I have all the normal symptoms and drug fog.
What should I say? Something like: what is above plus:
Can't sleep, fall asleep frequently during the day, cry a lot, jumpy, afraid of little things, hurt all over, fatigued all the time, joints, muscles hurt, brain if foggy, can't remember some things, etc. My gosh, when I think of all this maybe I should be in a retirement home? I wonder if anything more can go wrong. I've had x-rays recently of just about every part of my body, blood tests, etc. All come back with little things wrong but Doc says nothing a "man of my age would not normally have." All the meds do help, but make my mind not very sharp. I started taking all the meds over the past years and am afraid to stop. I just have to assume the Docs are right. It is a real nightmare to think what I would be like in some third world countries where meds are not available.
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