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Location: Florida
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Feb 04, 2024 at 06:42 PM
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Tart cherry jam. I filled out the paperwork myself, no lawyers, and was awarded SSDI 3 months later. They chose to award me for the previous 12 months also. It just so happened I got my approval letter while I was once again in the hospital. I don't remember how many hospitalizations I had before I was approved. I do know that at that time my length of stays were 1-2 months. So far my count is at 23, so maybe 10 or more hospitalizations when I was approved? Really don't remember. Now my SSDI has switched over to soc sec retirement.
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Feb 04, 2024 at 07:16 PM
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Yeah, I filled out the paperwork on my own too. No lawyers. I wasn’t expecting to be approved. I also got a big back pay check. But I suspect they contacted my doctors. But I never had to see their doctors or specialists.
I had three hospitalizations before I applied but they were serious ones. My attempts landed me in CICU and ICU. Oh right, I also suffered from nocturnal epilepsy as a result of one of my attempts. I was on epilepsy meds for about 10 yrs, then it went away. __________________ Nammu …Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. …... Desiderata Max Ehrmann |
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Feb 04, 2024 at 08:05 PM
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I was on SSDI for just a couple of years and then Zyprexa enabled me go to back to work. When I received SSDI, I had a lawyer, but I suspect that had I filed on my own, I would have been approved, too, because I literally filed in December and was awarded in January. That was less than a year after my latest (3rd) attempt. In the year immediately preceding the award, I had been in hospital 3 times, but there had been many more inpatient stays prior.
I hope I can continue working, but if I need to go back on SSDI, I wanted to collect all the info. __________________ Bipolar I w/psychotic features Last inpatient stay in 2018 Geodon 40 mg Seroquel 75 mg Gabapentin 1200 mg+Vitamin B-complex (against extrapyramidal side effects) Long term side effects from medications, some of them discontinued: - hypothyroidism - obesity BMI ~ 38 |
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