Well I have had problems for my whole life keeping jobs due to my disabilities. I have been going to the same clinic for years for my mood disorders and back issues. I have talked to my Dr's and they dont want to deal with SS. They say that it turns Dr's against their patients and wont help with my claim. My pcp said she would write a letter stating she will give me a couple months and the reevaluate at that time but wont say my condition will effect my ability to work for an extended amount of time since its possible I may not always be effected. What the heck can i do? Are there Drs that will help with my claim and just look over my medical history and determine I am disabled. Will SS at least let me see thier Dr's and see what they say. I am getting to the point where I cant pay my bills and things and I am getting desperate. I have spinal stenosis, osteo arthritis, degenerative disk disease, bi polar disorder, borderline personality disorder, idiopathic hypersomnia, sleep apnea and possible fibromyalgia. My Dr seems to think if we keep playing with meds it will get better and I will be able to function. Well it would be nice to be able to function but i have had issues since I was 16 years old with my mood disorders and I dont see any miracle occuring in 2 months. Will I still have a chance? What do I need to do next? I have already applied and waiting for a decision. Help!

i wouldn't worry too overly much about what your actual doc thinks/all disability really will need from any doc is the medical records not anything from HIM himself.at least that is the way it was with all of my like ten to twelve docs that supplied my many medical records.as far as I know,all he was sent was a copy of my mental health eval from the ssd doc but no actual papers for him to fill out or anything.I know he would have told me if he had,as we have a really great doc parient relationship and he has been my primary for over twelve years now.The only way he even knew I was doing the filing was when I told him about it and then he got that eval in the mail from that other doc.

all ssd looks at is your medical records from any given doc and what is contained in THEM is what they really take into consideration.one big word of advice here,but it is a bit late in the game since you already filed,but you still should do anyways for many reasons,is obtain all copies of all of your medical records so you know for sure what they are actually looking at.my records had many errors in them or were missing very important Dx of some of the secondary spinal cord injury type syndromes i now have that are a big paert of my disabilities.that was a shocker.luckily there were things mentioned in some of my other docs records.but there were also some things I had to track down myself from spescifioc health care people who treated me or monitored my spinal cord surgery who documented injuries to nerves that ssd never would have gotten if I hadn'e actually tracked them down myself and sent them in during my reconsideratin stage.I did eventually get approved but not til the recon stage only because some really vital info they needed was missing the first go round.

the thing is,i wasn't even aware that my actual documnetation of when they hit my nerves during my surgery and lost them on the monitor were never even written in my NSs op notes til I obtained all of my records at that recon stage and was just totally shocked at what was missing.I then had to find out the name of the monitoring neurophysiatrist who was there and seeing this when it happened and find out where he was working in order to obtain HIS op notes.these contained all of the very big key documentaion of the actual injuries to my spinal cord.without just that one peice of paper showing that,i would have been totally screwed.this is why you relly need to see what is actually IN your records before you apply or send in anything so you have time to either fix errors or discuss certain things with your doc that you feel are not right.or as in my case,track down vital missing info.this could mke or break your chances of being approved.

i hope things go your way.but get ahold of those records he has on you and any other docs or hospitals that have ever seen you,everything.just so you know.good luck,marcia

Phew! I feel a little less stressed. I understand my Dr's view on things. Those forms really do try and put words in thier mouths. Thanks for the response!

Make sure after this most recent interaction with your physician that a note was not entered in your chart that she does not support your claim of disability. I just got approved after a hearing and the BIG factor for the judge were the letters from my personal physicians supporting the disability. He specifically mentions this in the written decision, saying the opinion of the treating physicians outweighs the SSDI medical reviewer who has never treated me. If SSDI is leaning toward denying you, having your own physician document that she does not consider you disabled could be the kiss of death. Like the previous poster suggested, get copies of your medical records. If a notation like that exists, you may want to ask your PCP to remove it. If she truly just doesn't want to "deal with SSDI" she may remove it, but if she thinks you are trying to get disability and are not truly disabled she might not.

Good luck. I don't know how any of us get approved since fighting for SSDI is a full time job itself!

Mary