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Berger’s Disease and Receiving Social Security Disability

Monday, March 15th, 2010

Your kidneys are complex organs whose main job is to remove excess fluid and waste from your body. Berger’s disease is a kidney disorder that is caused by abnormal deposits of the immunoglobulin A (IgA), which is inside the small blood vessels (glomeruli) of your kidneys.

Glomeruli normally filter excess water and waste from your blood. This filtered material then goes through small fluid-collecting tubes (renal tubules) and eventually winds up in your bladder as urine. IgA deposits in your glomeruli hinder this process and can lead to protein and blood in your urine, swelling in your hands and feet and hypertension (high blood pressure).

Berger’s disease is a chronic condition that develops gradually. It usually affects young men, but it can occur at any age in both males and females.

Berger’s disease is the most common form of primary glomerulonephritis. It is a type of kidney disease that hampers your kidneys’ ability to remove waste and excess fluids.

Berger’s disease is named after a French physician named Jean Berger. He was the first one to describe this condition.

Berger’s disease is also known by other names. It is also called IgA nephropathy, IgA nephritis, synpharyngitic glomerulonephritis, thin basement membrane disease and Berger’s nephropathy.

There are several signs and symptoms that you may experience with Berger’s disease. Some of these are:

  • Swelling (edema) in your feet and hands
  • Low-grade fever
  • Repeated episodes of tea-colored or cola-colored urine (blood in your urine or gross hematuria), usually during or following an upper respiratory infection
  • Hypertension (high blood pressure)
  • Pain in your side or sides
  • Foamy urine resulting from proteinuria (protein in your urine).

In addition to these effects that you may experience, your doctor may discover persistent red blood cells in your urine (microscopic hematuria), upon a microscopic examination of a sample of your urine.

Berger’s disease and/or complications arising from or related to this disorder can be debilitating. It may be the cause of you or a loved one’s disability.

If this is the case, you or your loved one may need help? You may need financial help?

Where will that financial assistance come from? Who will provide the help that you or your loved one needs?

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 Berger’s disease and/or complications resulting from or related to it? Were you denied?

If you or your loved one is thinking about appealing the denial by the Social Security Administration, you will need a determined disability lawyer to help you like the one you will find at socialsecurityhome.com in what can be a trying process. This is true because people who have a disability attorney on their side are approved more often than those people who do not have a lawyer.

Neck Pain and Receiving Social Security Disability

Monday, March 8th, 2010

If you are experiencing bad neck pain, you may have more than just a pain in the neck. Bad neck pain can be a sign or symptom of disorders caused by degenerative and structural problems that affect the nerves in your neck and your spinal cord.

Your neck is made up of a series of bones that are called vertebrae. These begin in your upper torso and end at the base of your skull. Your neck has a good amount of motion and supports the weight of your head, but it is not protected as well as the rest of your spine. This makes your neck vulnerable to injuries and disorders that can hinder motion and cause pain.

As mentioned above, bad neck pain can be caused by and be a sign or symptom of several serious conditions. Some of these include:

  • A herniated disc – When the disc ruptures and compresses your nerve roots on your spinal cord this causes bad neck pain.
  • Osteoarthritis – This can cause bad neck pain.
  • Ankylosing spondylitis – This inflammatory or arthritic condition can also cause bad neck pain.
  • Osteoporosis – This is a degenerative disease that can cause bad neck pain.
  • Bone spurs – These can pinch your spinal nerves or spinal cord causing bad neck pain.
  • Chiari malformation – This is a congenital problem that can result in bad neck pain.

There are several effects that you may experience with bad neck pain. Some of these are:

  • Dizziness
  • Weakness
  • Tingling
  • Clumsiness of your hands
  • Numbness.

As the underlying condition that is causing your bad neck pain gets more severe, you may experience difficulty in controlling your bladder and your bowels. You may also have trouble with your balance when you are upright or standing.

If you are suffering from bad neck pain that is so severe that you are unable to work, you may need assistance. You may be looking for financial help.

Have you applied for that financial help from the Social Security Administration for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits because of the disability caused by an underlying condition whose main indication is bad neck pain? Were you denied?

You may plan on appealing the denial the denial by the Social Security Administration. If this is what you decide to do, here is something that you need to think about.

You are going to need the advice and counsel of a disability attorney like the one you will find at socialsecurityhome.com to help and guide you in what can be a long and trying process. The reason for this is because people who have a disability lawyer in their corner are approved more often than those people who do not have an attorney representing them.

Head Trauma and Receiving Social Security Disability

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Head trauma refers to any injury to your skull, scalp or brain. This can range from a minor bump on your skull to a serious brain injury. Other names for head trauma are head injury, brain injury, concussion and contusion.

Head trauma is classified as either closed or open (penetrating).

  • A closed head trauma is when you receive a hard blow to your head by striking an object.
  • An open, penetrating head trauma is when you are hit with an object that breaks your skull and enters your brain. This can result from something like a car accident or a gunshot.

There are several types of brain injuries.  Two of the most common are:

  • Concussion – This is the most common type of traumatic brain injury.
  • Contusion – This is a bruise on the brain.

The effects of head trauma can happen immediately, or they can develop slowly over a period of hours. The following effects are indications of serious head trauma that requires emergency medical treatment. These include:

  • Convulsions
  • Severe headache
  • Fracture
  • Confusion, drowsiness or loss of consciousness
  • A drop in blood pressure or low breathing rate
  • Fluid drainage from your mouth, ears or nose
  • Clumsiness, lack of coordination or restlessness
  • Blurred vision or slurred speech
  • Inability to move one or both of your limbs
  • Vomiting or stiff neck
  • Inability to see, taste, smell or hear
  • Pupil changes
  • Initial improvement followed by worsening symptoms
  • Irritability (especially in children), unusual behavior or personality changes.

Head trauma can range all the way from a minor bump on your head to a serious, life threatening brain injury. Some head trauma can have lifelong effects that keep you from carrying out your normal daily activities. Head trauma may be the reason for you or a loved ones’ disability.

As a result, you or your loved one may need help. You may need financial assistance.

Where will the help come from that you need? Who will you be able to turn to?

Have you or your loved one tried to get this financial help by applying for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits from the Social Security Administration because of the disability resulting from head trauma? 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 do appeal the denial, there is something that you need to seriously consider.

You or your loved one will need the help and assistance of a disability lawyer like the one you will find at socialsecurityhome.com in what can prove to be a long and trying process. This is true because people who are represented by a disability attorney are approved more often than those people without a lawyer.

Mitral Valve Prolapse and Receiving Social Security Disability

Friday, February 26th, 2010
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Your heart is the center of your cardiovascular system. Your heart pumps blood through your body’s blood vessels to all of your cells. Your blood carries oxygen that your cells need. Heart disease refers to a group of diseases that occur when your heart and blood vessels are not working like they should.

Your mitral valve is also called the bicuspid valve or left atrioventricular valve. It is a dual-flap valve that separates the lower (ventricle) and upper (atrium) chambers of the left side of your heart. Your mitral valve has the function of controlling blood flow from your left atrium into your left ventricle.

Mitral valve prolapse happens when your mitral valve fails to close the way it should. This sometimes results in blood leaking back into your left atrium. This is a condition that is referred to as mitral valve regurgitation.

Mitral valve prolapse is referred to by other names. It is also called floppy valve syndrome, ballooning mitral valve syndrome, click-murmur syndrome and Barlow’s syndrome.

Mitral valve prolapse is the most common heart valve abnormality. As much as 10% of the general population may have some form of this condition.

Most of the time mitral valve prolapse does not cause any problems and does not require treatment. However, when mitral valve prolapse does cause signs and symptoms, it is called mitral valve prolapse syndrome, and it can have serious, life-threatening complications.

As mentioned earlier, many people never have any signs or symptoms with mitral valve prolapse. If you do have signs and symptoms, they can vary greatly from person to person. Some of the signs and symptoms that you may experience are:

  • Fatigue
  • Shortness of breath or having trouble breathing that often occurs when you are doing physical activity or lying down flat
  • Chest pain that is not caused by coronary artery disease or a heart attack
  • An irregular or racing heartbeat (arrhythmia)
  • Lightheadedness or dizziness
  • Cough
  • Anxiety, depression and panic attacks
  • Migraine headaches.

You or a loved one may have mitral valve prolapse. This condition and/or complications resulting from or other conditions along with it may be why you or your loved one cannot work. It may be the cause of you or your loved one’s disability.

Have you or your loved one applied 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 mitral valve prolapse and/or complications resulting from or other conditions along with it? Were you denied by the Social Security Administration?

If you or your loved one appeals the denial by the Social Security Administration, remember this important fact. People who have a disability lawyer like the one you will find at socialsecurityhome.com are approved more often than those who are not represented by a disability attorney.

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Cystic Fibrosis and Receiving Social Security Disability

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
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Did you know that cystic fibrosis (CF) is sometimes called “65 roses”? This life threatening disease got its nickname from a little boy who overheard his mother talking on the phone about this condition. Every time he heard his mother say, “cystic fibrosis,” he thought she was talking about 65 roses.

Cystic fibrosis is an inherited disease of the mucous and sweat glands. It affects mainly your lungs, pancreas, intestines, liver, sex organs and sinuses. Cystic fibrosis affects the cells that make mucous, sweat, saliva and digestive juices.

These secretions are usually slippery and thin. If you have cystic fibrosis, however, these secretions become sticky and thick. The secretions stop up ducts, passageways and tubes, especially in your pancreas and lungs. The most dangerous result of cystic fibrosis is respiratory failure.

It is estimated that about 30,000 people have cystic fibrosis in America, and about 70,000 worldwide. About 1,000 new cases of cystic fibrosis are diagnosed every year.

More than 70% of the patients are diagnosed by age 2. More than 40% of the people with cystic fibrosis are 18 or older. The median age of survival for people with cystic fibrosis in 2006 was 37.

There are a variety of ways that cystic fibrosis may affect you. These signs and symptoms may be different depending on your age.

With infants the first sign of cystic fibrosis may be a blockage of their intestines. Other indications in newborns are:

  • Frequent lung infections
  • Extremely salty-tasting skin
  • Wheezing or shortness of breath
  • Persistent coughing, at times with phlegm
  • Frequent bulky, greasy stools or difficulty with bowel movements
  • Poor weight/growth gain in spite of good appetite
  • Abdominal swelling
  • Vomiting
  • Dehydration.

In children and young adults some of the signs and symptoms are:

  • Foul-smelling, greasy stools
  • Blockage in the bowels
  • A salty taste to the skin
  • Thick sputum
  • Delayed growth
  • Frequent sinus and chest infections with recurring bronchitis or pneumonia
  • Rounding or enlargement of the toes and fingertips
  • Protrusion of part of the rectum through the anus.

Cystic fibrosis can also involve cirrhosis of the liver, displacement of one part of your intestine into another part of the intestine and growths in your nasal passages.

Is cystic fibrosis preventing you from working? Is this disorder the cause of your disability?

Have you applied for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits from the Social Security Administration because of the disability caused by cystic fibrosis? Were you denied?

If you are thinking about appealing the denial by the Social Security Administration, you will need a disability lawyer like the one at socialsecurityhome.com to 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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Diabetic Neuropathy and Receiving Social Security Disability

Monday, February 22nd, 2010
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One of the harmful things that diabetes does is to damage your nerves. One of the common complications associated with diabetes is damage to the nerves that allow you to feel sensations such as pain. This complication of diabetes is called diabetic neuropathy.

There are several ways that diabetes damages your nerves, but they all seem to be related to your blood sugar (glucose) level being too high for a long period of time.  Diabetes refers to a set of related diseases where your body cannot regulate the amount of sugar in your blood. (link to page Diabetes and Disability) Diabetic neuropathy is damage to your nerves that allow you to feel sensations.  As stated above, diabetic neuropathy is a common complication of diabetes.

There are four types of diabetic neuropathy. These are peripheral, autonomic, proximal and focal.

There are many different ways in which diabetic neuropathy may affect you. The effects that you experience will depend on the type of diabetic neuropathy that you have and the parts of your body that are affected.

Here are some of the effects that you may experience with peripheral, proximal and focal diabetic neuropathy. Peripheral diabetic neuropathy may cause pain, numbness, burning and tingling. Proximal diabetic neuropathy may affect you by causing pain in your hips, buttocks or thighs. Focal diabetic neuropathy may cause pain or muscle weakness in your head, torso or leg.

Autonomic diabetic neuropathy can affect your digestive system, blood vessels, male sex organs, female sex organs or your urinary system. Some of the signs and symptoms you may experience, depending on what area of your body is affected are:

  • Constipation
  • Diarrhea
  • Vomiting
  • Nausea
  • Heartburn
  • Feeling of fullness after eating only a small amount\bloating
  • Dizziness
  • Low blood pressure
  • Increased heart rate
  • Blacking out when you stand up quickly
  • Inability to have or maintain an erection (erectile dysfunction)
  • Reduced or dry ejaculations
  • Decrease in the number or lack or orgasms (women)
  • Decrease in vaginal lubrication
  • Incontinence
  • Increased urination at night (nocturia)
  • Inability to completely empty your bladder.

The effects caused by the different types of diabetic neuropathy can be debilitating. You may be disabled and unable to work because of this disorder.

If this is the case, you may need assistance. You or your loved one may need financial help.

Have you applied for financial assistance from the Social Security Administration by applying for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits because of the disability caused by diabetic neuropathy? Were you denied?

If you are thinking about appealing the denial by the Social Security Administration, here is something for you to think about. People who are represented and assisted by a caring disability attorney like the one at socialsecurityhome.com are approved more often than those people without a lawyer.

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Bulimia Nervosa and Receiving Social Security Disability

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Many people do not know how large a problem obesity and being overweight are in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say that 67% of Americans who are 20 years of age and above are either obese or overweight. That means that more than two out of every three Americans are either obese or overweight.

Nearly all of us eat too much at one time or another. Taking second and third helpings of food at holidays like Thanksgiving or Christmas are examples of this. If overeating is something that you do habitually and uncontrollably, you may have a disorder that is called bulimia nervosa.

Bulimia nervosa, which is simply called bulimia much of the time, is an eating disorder that is characterized by recurrent binge eating. This eating disorder is similar to binge eating disorder. The primary difference in these two eating disorders is that a person with bulimia nervosa follows their binge eating with some method of purging or bingeing to prevent gaining weight. These unhealthy methods include self induced vomiting, laxatives, enemas, diuretics and over exercise.

The signs and symptoms of both types of bulimia nervosa are similar. There are several physical signs and symptoms of this eating disorder. These include:

  • Irregular heartbeat
  • Bloating
  • Scars, calluses or sores on your hands or knuckles
  • Abnormal function of your bowels
  • Amenorrhea (loss of menstruation) or menstrual irregularities in women
  • Damaged gums and teeth
  • Dry skin
  • Fatigue
  • Swollen salivary glands in your cheeks
  • Dehydration
  • Sores in your mouth and throat.

There are also behavioral and emotional signs and symptoms of bulimia nervosa. Some of these are:

  • Hoarding food
  • Exercising for long, extended time periods
  • Going to the bathroom during meals or after eating
  • Ongoing dieting
  • Anxiety
  • Feeling like your eating is out of your control
  • Depression
  • Eating until you feel pain or discomfort
  • Misusing diuretics, enemas or laxatives
  • Having an excessive, distorted negative body image of yourself
  • Preoccupation with your weight or body shape
  • Eating far more food than in a normal snack or meal.

You or a loved one may have bulimia nervosa. This condition and/or complications resulting from or other conditions along with it may be why you are disabled. It may be the reason why you need financial help.

You or your loved one may have applied for financial assistance from the Social Security Administration by applying for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits. Were you denied?

If you or your loved one intends to appeal the denial by the Social Security Administration, here is something important for you to think about. People who have a disability lawyer like the one you will find at socialsecurityhome.com are approved more often than people who are not represented by a disability attorney.

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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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Aortic Valve Regurgitation and Receiving Social Security Disability

Friday, February 12th, 2010

The principle artery that leaves your heart is the aorta. Blood leaves your heart by going from you left ventricle (lower chamber) through your aortic valve into your aorta. Aortic valve regurgitation is a disease in which your aortic valve does not close as tightly as it should. This results in some of the blood leaking back into your heart’s left ventricle that was just pumped out of it.

Because of aortic valve regurgitation, your heart may not be able to efficiently pump out blood to the rest of your body. This can result in you feeling breathless and tired.

Aortic valve regurgitation is also known by other names. It is also referred to as aortic regurgitation and aortic insufficiency or aortic incompetence.

Aortic valve regurgitation can come on suddenly. If it does, it requires immediate medical attention. When it does, it is referred to as acute aortic valve regurgitation.

There are several things that may cause chronic aortic valve regurgitation. These include:

  • Rheumatic fever
  • Infective endocarditis (infection in your heart)
  • Congenital heart defects
  • Advancing Age
  • Dilation of your aortic root (enlarged aorta)
  • Treatment for cancer using radiation
  • Use of the diet medicine fen-phen.

Other things can cause acute aortic valve regurgitation. These include:

  • Difficulties associated with aortic valve replacement
  • Dissection of the aorta
  • Trauma to your chest
  • An infection of the heart called endocarditis.

Most of the time, however, this disease develops gradually causing no signs or symptoms. You may not even realize that you have this condition. Signs and symptoms will usually begin as the disease progresses. Some of the signs and symptoms that you may have are:

  • Irregular or rapid pulse rate
  • Chest discomfort, tightness or pain (angina) that usually increases during exercise
  • Fainting
  • Fatigue and weakness that worsens when your activity level increases or you exercise
  • Swollen feet and ankles
  • Shortness of breath when you lie flat or exert yourself
  • Problems with breathing at night
  • Palpitations (feelings of a rapid, fluttering heartbeat)
  • Lightheadedness and dizziness
  • Pulsations in your neck.

You or a loved one may be suffering from aortic valve regurgitation. This disease and/or complications arising from or along with it may be why you are disabled and not able to work. It may be why you or your loved one needs financial help.

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 aortic valve regurgitation and/or complications resulting from or along with it? Were you or your loved one denied?

If you decide to appeal the denial by the Social Security Administration, think about this. People who are represented by a disability attorney like the one at socialsecurityhome.com are approved more often than people who are without representation.

Please do not wait. Contact the disability attorney at socialsecurityhome.com, today.

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Aphasia and Receiving Social Security Disability Benefits

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Aphasia is a language disorder that involves damage to the portions of your brain that are responsible for language. For most people, this involves the left side (hemisphere) of your brain.

Aphasia usually happens suddenly. Many times it is the result of a head injury or stroke, but it can also develop slowly, as in the case of a brain tumor.

This disorder affects the understanding and expression of language, as well as the writing and reading of it. Aphasia may occur at the same time as other speech disorders, such as apraxia of speech or dysarthria that also come from brain damage.

Although anyone can get aphasia, most of the people with this disorder are middle-aged and older. Women and men are equally affected by aphasia. It is estimated that approximately 80,000 people get aphasia each year. About one million people in the United States currently have aphasia.

There are four main types of aphasia. They are:

  • Expressive aphasia – The person knows what it is that they want to say, but they have problems writing or saying what they mean.
  • Receptive aphasia – The person sees the print or hears the voice, but they cannot make any sense out of the words.
  • Anomic aphasia – The person has trouble using the right word for places, objects or events.
  • Global aphasia – The person cannot write or read, understand speech or speak.

The amount of disability you have depends on the severity and the location of the brain damage that is the cause of aphasia.

The effects that aphasia will have on you depend on the location and severity of the brain damage. Depending on these factors, you may:

  • Say unrecognizable words
  • Speak in short, incomplete sentences
  • Speak in sentences that do not make sense
  • Interpret figurative language literally
  • Write sentences that do not make sense
  • Not be able to understand other people’s conversation.

The effects caused by aphasia may have caused someone you love to be unable to work. Aphasia may be the cause of your loved one’s disability.

If this is the case, your loved one may need help? You may need financial help in caring for your loved one?

Where will that financial assistance come from? Who will provide the help that your loved one needs?

Have you applied for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits on behalf of your loved one from the Social Security Administration because of the disability caused by aphasia? Was your loved one denied?

If you are thinking about appealing the denial by the Social Security Administration, you will need a disability lawyer like the one at socialsecurityhome.com to represent your loved one in this process. This is true because people who have a disability attorney on their side are approved more often than those people who do not have a lawyer.

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