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Bradycardia and Receiving Social Security Disability Benefits

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

Cardiac arrhythmia is a medical term that refers to any of a group of conditions in which the electrical activity of your heart is irregular, or is faster or slower than normal. Some arrhythmias are minor and can be looked at as normal. Others are serious, life- threatening medical emergencies that can cause cardiac arrest and sudden death.

Bradycardia is a type or kind of cardiac arrhythmia. Bradycardia is a medical term that refers to a slow resting heart rate. Usually bradycardia is when your resting heart rate is below 50 to 60 beats a minute.

A resting heart rated below 50 to 60 beats a minute does not always indicate bradycardia. Athletes sometimes have a resting heart rate below 50. The term “relative bradycardia” is used in reference to a heart rate that is not below 60 beats a minute, but is considered to be too slow for your current medical condition.

Bradycardia develops in three basic sites. They are the sinus node, autonomic nervous system or conduction system. “Sick Sinus Syndrome” is bradycardia that originates in the sinus node of your heart. Bradycardia that develops in the autonomic nervous system involves the nerves that control the speed of your heartbeat. “Stokes-Adams Heart Block” refers to the bradycardia that begins in your conduction system.

It is possible that you may not have any signs or symptoms at all with bradycardia. You can have bradycardia and not know it until a doctor discovers it during a physical exam. If bradycardia does affect you, here are some things that you may experience:

  • Fatigue
  • Fainting
  • Shortness of breath
  • Heart palpitations.

As mentioned above, you may not feel any effects from your bradycardia. However, the effects caused by bradycardia can be severe and debilitating.

Bradycardia may be the reason that you or a loved one is unable to work. This condition may be the cause of you or your loved one’s disability.

If this is the case, do you or your loved one need help? Do you need financial help?

Where will that financial assistance come from? Who can you turn to? Who will help you?

Have you or your loved one applied for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits from the Social Security Administration because of the disability caused by bradycardia? Were you or your loved one denied?

You or your loved one may be thinking about appealing the denial by the Social Security Administration. If you decide to do this, here is something that you need to think about.

You or your loved one will need a disability lawyer like the one you will find at socialsecurityhome.com to help and assist you in this process. This is true because people who are represented by a disability attorney are approved more often than those people who do not have a lawyer.

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Atrial Fibrillation and Receiving Social Security Disability

Monday, February 15th, 2010
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Your heart is the center of your cardiovascular system. Your heart pumps blood to all of your cells through your body’s blood vessels. Your blood carries oxygen that your cells need.

Atrial fibrillation is the most common kind of abnormal heart rhythm (cardiac arrhythmia). Cardiac arrhythmia refers to a group of conditions where your heart is beating in an irregular way.

Atrial fibrillation is when your heart’s atria, the two small upper chambers, quiver instead of beating effectively. The result is that your blood is not completely pumped out of these two chambers. This can cause your blood to pool and clot. A stroke can happen if a piece of a blood clot leaves your heart and lodges in an artery in your brain.

About 2.2 million people or around 1% of the population in the United States have atrial fibrillation. About 15% of strokes happen in people with atrial fibrillation.

Your risk of having atrial fibrillation increases with age. Anywhere from 3 to 5% of people over age 65 have this condition.

There are risk factors that may increase your likelihood of having atrial fibrillation. These include drinking alcohol, heart disease, advancing age, family history, high blood pressure and other chronic conditions.

The signs and symptoms of atrial fibrillation vary from one person to another. Some people do not have any signs or symptoms. If you do have signs and symptoms, you may experience:

  • An irregular fluttering sensation in your chest
  • You may faint or become light-headed
  • Palpitations (A sensation of an irregular or rapid heartbeat)
  • Chest pain
  • Shortness of breath during any type of exertion
  • Weakness
  • Lack of energy
  • Anxiety
  • Confusion
  • Low blood pressure.

Atrial fibrillation can be chronic or occasional. Chronic atrial fibrillation is an ongoing problem that lasts until it is treated. Occasional atrial fibrillation comes and goes. It may last from minutes to hours and stop on its own.

You or a loved one may have been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation. This condition and/or complications resulting from or other conditions along with it may be why you or your loved one is disabled. It may be why you need financial assistance.

Do you or your loved one intend to apply for the financial help that you need from the Social Security Administration by applying for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits because of the disability caused by atrial fibrillation and/or complications resulting from or other conditions along with this disorder? Have you or your loved one already done this and been denied by the Social Security Administration?

If you or your loved one is thinking about appealing the denial by the Social Security Administration, think carefully about this. People who have a disability attorney like the one you will find at socialsecurityhome.com are approved more often than those who are not represented by a disability lawyer.

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Tachycardia and Receiving Social Security Disability Benefits

Friday, September 11th, 2009

Have you or your loved one applied for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits from the Social Security Administration because of the disability caused by tachycardia? Were you or your loved one denied?

Tachycardia is a medical term that refers to a kind or type of cardiac arrhythmia. Cardiac arrhythmias are conditions where your heart rate is either too slow or too fast.  Bradycardia refers to a heart rate that is too slow. Tachycardia refers to a heart rate that is too fast.

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Usually, in an adult, tachycardia refers to a heart rate greater than 100 beats a minute.  However, tachycardia can be a normal physiological reaction to stress. Tachycardia can cause problems requiring medical treatment, and in some cases it can be life threatening.

There are three ways in which tachycardia can hurt you. First, tachycardia can change the balance of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the hemoglobin in your blood. Second, tachycardia can cause your heart to pump blood less efficiently. Third, tachycardia can cause you to feel out of breath or cause angina.

Your likelihood of getting tachycardia increases as you age. Most people with tachycardia have other heart problems that contribute to the development of this condition. Some of these are:

  • Pericarditis
  • Dysfunction of your heart’s natural pacemaker (sinus node)
  • Abnormalities of your heart valves
  • Long-term high blood pressure
  • Abnormalities of your heart’s pumping function.

Other people may develop tachycardia that have no underlying heart problems. In this case, possible causes for tachycardia are:

  • Abnormalities within individual heart cells
  • An overactive thyroid or other metabolic imbalance
  • Abnormal electrical properties of groups of heart cells
  • Exposure to heart stimulants like alcohol, tobacco or caffeine
  • Emphysema or other lung diseases.

You may not be affected by tachycardia. If you do have effects they may include:

  • Shortness of breath
  • Clamminess
  • Dizziness
  • Light-headedness
  • Chest pain
  • Palpitations
  • A fast pulse.

As mentioned above, you may not be affected by tachycardia. However, the effects caused by tachycardia can be severe and debilitating.

Tachycardia may be the reason that you or a loved one is unable to work. This condition may be the cause of you or your loved one’s disability.

If this is the case, do you or your loved one need help? Do you need financial help?

You or your loved one may be thinking about appealing the denial by the Social Security Administration. If you decide to do this, here is something that you need to think about.

You or your loved one will need a reputable disability lawyer like the one you will find at socialsecurityhome.com to represent you in the appeals process. This is true because people who are represented by a reliable disability attorney are approved more often than those people who are not represented by a lawyer.

Do not put this off. Contact the proven disability attorney at socialsecurityhome.com, today.

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