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Heart Muscle Disease and Receiving Social Security Disability

Thursday, September 29th, 2011
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Your heart is obviously one of the most important, if not the most important, organs in your body. In order for your cells to live and work like they ought to, they have to have the oxygen that is in your blood. Your heart is the organ that pumps your blood to all of your cells.

Heart muscle disease is the layman’s term for cardiomyopathy. Heart muscle disease has to do with the deterioration of the working of your myocardium (your actual heart muscle). This medical disease hinders your heart’s capacity to pump blood.

There are three major forms of heart muscle disease. They are:

Ÿ  Restrictive heart muscle disease – This type of heart muscle disease is characterized by your heart muscle becoming less elastic and rigid. This interferes with the expansion and filling of your heart’s ventricles with blood between heartbeats or contractions.

Ÿ  Hypertrophic heart muscle disease – This form of heart muscle disease is evidenced by abnormal thickening or growth of your heart muscle. This is especially true in regard to the muscle of your left ventricle. This leads to your heart becoming stiff, and the size of your pumping chamber may shrink. This interferes with your heart’s capacity to pump blood.

Ÿ  Dilated heart muscle disease – This kind of heart muscle disease is marked by your heart’s main pumping chamber becoming enlarged (dilated), and its pumping ability becoming hindered. Dilated heart muscle disease is the first and most common form of heart muscle disease.

The cause of your heart muscle disease has to do with the kind of heart muscle disease that you have. If you have hypertrophic or dilated heart muscle disease, it may result from your family history or heredity. The cause of restrictive heart muscle disease may not be determined, or it can be caused by other diseases in your body that involve your heart. In most cases of heart muscle disease, the cause is unknown.

However, there are some conditions that may contribute to or result in the development of heart muscle disease. Some of these include:

Ÿ  The use of chemotherapy drugs to treat cancer

Ÿ  Sustained hypertension (high blood pressure)

Ÿ  A chronic rapid heart rate

Ÿ  Metabolic disorders, such as thyroid disease or diabetes

Ÿ  Heart valve difficulties

Ÿ  Pregnancy

Ÿ  Certain viral infections that may hurt your heart

Ÿ  The excessive use of alcohol over many years.

Some people do not have any signs or symptoms in the early stages of heart muscle disease.  Signs and symptoms usually develop as heart muscle disease advances. When heart muscle disease does produce signs and symptoms, they are similar to those of congestive heart failure. Some of these are:

Ÿ  Fatigue

Ÿ  Irregular heart rhythm

Ÿ  Swelling of your lower extremities

Ÿ  Distention of your abdomen with fluid

Ÿ  Fainting, lightheadedness and dizziness

Ÿ  Breathlessness that takes place with exertion or even during rest.

The signs and symptoms of heart muscle disease usually get worse as time passes. For some people this deterioration increases quickly. Others get to a plateau and remain stable for a long time. In some cases, heart muscle disease may actually improve.

Are you incapacitated and cannot work as a result of heart muscle disease and/or complications that have been brought about by it or other underlying conditions that you have along with this disease? As a result of your disability, are you looking for financial aid?

Have you put in a claim for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits from the Social Security Administration? Has the Social Security Administration denied your claim?

If you consider reapplying or appealing your denial, you really need the lawyer at socialsecurityhome.com to be in your corner. The lawyer at socialsecurityhome.com is capable of enabling you to receive the disability benefits that you deserve.

Do not hesitate. Contact socialsecurityhome.com, today.

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Restrictive Cardiomyopathy and Receiving Social Security Disability

Friday, December 17th, 2010
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Your heart is at the center of your cardiovascular system. Your heart is the organ that pumps blood to all of the cells in your body through your body’s blood vessels. Your blood has oxygen that your cells have to have.

Cardiomyopathy literally means “heart muscle disease”. It refers to the deterioration of the working of your myocardium (heart muscle).  This medical condition hinders your heart’s ability to pump blood.

There are three major types of cardiomyopathy. They are dilated cardiomyopathy, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and restrictive cardiomyopathy.

Dilated cardiomyopathy is the most common form of this disease. It is when your heart’s main pumping chamber becomes dilated (enlarged), and its pumping ability becomes impaired.

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a form of cardiomyopathy where your heart muscle (myocardium) becomes hypertrophied or abnormally thick. The result is that your heart may have a harder time pumping blood. This disease can also affect the electrical system of your heart.

Restrictive cardiomyopathy is the rarest kind of cardiomyopathy. It is a disease where the walls of your ventricles (lower chambers of your heart) become abnormally rigid. They do not have the flexibility to expand as they fill with blood. With the passage of time, restrictive cardiomyopathy can cause your heart to lose its ability to pump blood properly. This can then lead to heart failure.

You may experience several signs and symptoms that may be an indication of restrictive cardiomyopathy. These include:

  • Fatigue
  • Swelling of your ankles and feet
  • Poor exercise tolerance
  • A persistent cough
  • Swelling of your abdomen
  • Difficulty breathing when you are lying flat, at night and especially with exertion
  • Weight gain
  • Chest pain or pressure
  • Fainting
  • Palpitations (fluttering in your chest because of abnormal heart rhythms)
  • Bloating, nausea and poor appetite that is related to retention of fluid.

You or a loved one may have restrictive cardiomyopathy. Restrictive cardiomyopathy and/or complications that have resulted from this disease may be the reason why you or your loved one is disabled. It may be preventing you or your loved one from working.

You may need assistance if this is the case. You may need financial help.

You or your loved one may be intending to apply for the financial assistance that you need from the Social Security Administration by applying for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits because of the disability caused by restrictive cardiomyopathy and/or complications that have resulted from this disease. You or your loved one may have already taken this step, and your application was denied by the Social Security Administration.

If you or your loved one plans on reapplying or appealing the denial, you really ought to consider this important fact carefully. The fact of the matter is that people who have a disability lawyer standing with them like the one you will find at Social Security Home are approved more often than people who are not represented by a disability attorney.

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Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and Receiving Social Security Disability

Monday, October 18th, 2010
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Your heart is at the center of your cardiovascular system. Your heart is the organ that pumps blood to all of the cells in your body through your body’s blood vessels. Your blood has oxygen that your cells have to have.

Cardiomyopathy literally means “heart muscle disease”. It refers to the deterioration of the working of your myocardium (heart muscle).  This medical condition hinders your heart’s ability to pump blood.

Dilated cardiomyopathy is the most common form of this disease. It is when your heart’s main pumping chamber becomes dilated (enlarged), and its pumping ability becomes impaired.

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a form of cardiomyopathy where your heart muscle (myocardium) becomes hypertrophied or abnormally thick. The result is that your heart may have a harder time pumping blood. This disease can also affect the electrical system of your heart.

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is known by other names. It is also referred to as idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis, hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy and asymmetric septal hypertrophy.

Fortunately, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is rare. It is not as common as dilated cardiomyopathy. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy affects about 1 in 500 people in the United States.

People of all ages can have hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. However, younger people are more prone to have a serious form of this disease. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy affects men and women equally.

Genetic mutations are what often cause hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Doctors believe these genetic mutations cause your heart muscle to become abnormally thick. Another factor that may play a role in the development of this disease is an abnormal arrangement of your heart’s muscle fibers. This can play a part in causing an irregular heartbeat.

There are some signs and symptoms that may be an indication of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Some of these are:

  • Hypertension (high blood pressure)
  • Shortness of breath
  • Shortness of breath while lying down
  • Chest pain
  • Reduced activity tolerance (fatigue)
  • Dizziness
  • Light-headedness that happens especially after exercise or activity
  • Palpitations (a sense of fluttering, pounding or rapid heartbeats)
  • Fainting that especially occurs during activity or exercise.

You or a loved one may have hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. This disease and/or complications resulting from it may be causing you or your loved one’s disability. It may be why you or your loved one cannot work and need financial assistance?

You or your loved one may 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 hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and/or complications resulting from this disease. You may have already done this and been turned down.

If you or your loved one plans on appealing the denial by the Social Security Administration, consider this. People with a disability lawyer like the one you will find at Social Security Home are approved more often than people who are not represented by a disability attorney.

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Cardiac Arrhythmia and Receiving Social Security Disability

Thursday, May 27th, 2010
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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. This electrical activity may be slower or faster than normal.

Some arrhythmias are minor. They can take place in a normal, healthy heart. They can be regarded as normal. Other cardiac arrhythmias are serious, life- threatening medical emergencies that can cause cardiac arrest and sudden death.

There are several different kinds of cardiac arrhythmia. Some of these arrhythmias include:

  • Tachycardia is a cardiac arrhythmia where your resting heart rate is faster than 100 beats a minute.
  • Bradycardia is a cardiac arrhythmia where your resting heart rate is slower than 60 beats a minute.
  • Fibrillation is a serious form of cardiac arrhythmia. The muscle cells of your heart normally function together creating a single contraction when they are stimulated.  Fibrillation is when your heart muscle begins a quivering motion caused by a disunity in contractile cell function.

There are other kinds of common cardiac arrhythmia. These include atrial, ventricular, atrial ventricular, functional arrhythmias, heart blocks and trigeminal rhythm (trigeminy).

One of the dangers of cardiac arrhythmia is that it can be silent and cause you no ill effects at all. When you are affected by cardiac arrhythmia, you may experience:

  • Dizziness or feeling light-headed
  • Chest discomfort
  • Shortness of breath
  • Weakness or fatigue
  • Pounding in the chest
  • Palpitations
  • Fainting.

The effects caused by cardiac arrhythmia like shortness of breath, pounding in your chest and dizziness or fainting may be serious enough to keep you or a loved one from being able to work. Cardiac arrhythmia may be the reason for you or your loved one’s disability.

You or your loved one may be looking for help if this is the case. You may be searching for financial help.

Where will that financial assistance come from? Who can you turn to? Who can and 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 cardiac arrhythmia? Were you or your loved one denied by the Social Security Administration?

You or your loved one may be planning on appealing the denial by the Social Security Administration. If this is what you decide to do, here is something critical that you should know.

You may need a disability attorney like the one you will find at socialsecurityhome.com to help and represent you in what can be a long and trying process. The reason that this is true is because people who have a disability lawyer in their corner are approved more often than those people who are not represented by an attorney.

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