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Cystinuria and Receiving Social Security Disability Benefits

Thursday, February 3rd, 2011

Cystinuria is an inherited metabolic disease. A metabolic disease is one in which your internal body chemistry that causes your body’s metabolism does not work like it should. You may have too much of some substances and not enough of other substances that you require to stay healthy.

Cystinuria is a disease that is evidenced by the accumulation of cystine stones or crystals in your bladder or kidneys. Cystine is an amino acid, which is one of the building blocks of proteins. Cystine is usually absorbed back into your blood stream as your kidneys filter blood to create urine. Cystine is not reabsorbed into your bloodstream like it should be when you have cystinuria.

Excess cystine forms crystals as your urine becomes more concentrated in your kidneys. The crystals form stones in your bladder or kidneys as they increase in size. These crystals and stones may reduce the ability of your kidneys to eliminate waste through urine and create blockages in your urinary tract. These stones may also be the site of where bacteria can cause infections.

Cystinuria affects around 1 in 10,000 people. Cystine stones occur most often in young adults who are under the age of 40. Men are more severely affected by cystinuria than women.

There are several different signs and symptoms that you may have with cystinuria. However, the sign or symptom that will be most noticeable is pain in your back or side or flank pain. This pain may:

  • Often be severe
  • Be felt also in your genitals, groin, pelvis or between your back and upper abdomen
  • Occur usually on one side, rarely on both sides
  • Get increasingly worse over a period of days.

Other signs and symptoms of cystinuria include:

  • Excess protein in your urine
  • Blood in your urine
  • Excess amino acids in your urine
  • Kidney stones
  • Malabsorption
  • Small stature.

You or a loved one may have cystinuria. Cystinuria and/or complications resulting from it or other conditions that you have along with this disease may have led to the disability of you or your loved one. It may be preventing you from working.

If this is the case, you may need assistance. You may need financial help.

You or your loved one may have decided 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 cystinuria and/or complications resulting from it or other conditions that you have along with this disease. You or your loved one may have already tried this option, and your claim was turned down by the Social Security Administration.

If you or your loved one intends to reapply or appeal the denial, here is something important for you to carefully consider. The fact of the matter is that people who are represented by a disability attorney are approved more often than people who do not have a disability lawyer in their corner.

Please do not wait or put this off. Contact the disability attorney at Social Security Home, today.

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Arachnoiditis and Receiving Social Security Disability Benefits

Monday, January 10th, 2011

Your arachnoid is one of the membranes that protect and surround the nerves of your central nervous system, which includes your brain and spinal cord. Your arachnoid lining is one of the three linings that surround your spinal cord and brain.

Arachnoiditis is neuropathic disease that is characterized by inflammation of your arachnoid. It is a chronic (long-term) disorder that is a devastating affliction of intractable pain. This is pain that is not relieved by ordinary nursing, medical or surgical measures. It is often persistent and chronic pain that can be psychogenic (originating in your mind) in nature.

Arachnoiditis is also marked by neurological deficits (coming from or pertaining to your nervous system). It is a disease that can be disabling.

There are several different forms of arachnoiditis. These include adhesive arachnoiditis, spinal arachnoiditis, proliferative granulomatous arachnoiditis and cysticercotic arachnoiditis.

Arachnoiditis can affect anyone in any age group, but it occurs most often in adults who are between the ages of 40 and 60. This disease affects men and women equally. Arachnoiditis is not a common disease, but it is growing worldwide because of an increasing number of immunocompromised people including intravenous drug abusers, diabetics, people with AIDS, alcoholics and chemotherapy and transplantation patients.

There are three primary causes of arachnoiditis. They are:

  • Infection-induced arachnoiditis – This is when arachnoiditis is caused by certain infections that affect your spine like fungal and viral tuberculosis or meningitis.
  • Chemically-induced arachnoiditis – This is arachnoiditis that is thought to be brought about by some of the dyes that are used in myelograms.
  • Trauma/surgery-induced arachnoiditis – This is arachnoiditis that is a rare complication of spinal surgery.

There are many different possible signs and symptoms that may be an indication of arachnoiditis. Some of these include:

  • Severe stinging, burning pain
  • Paralysis
  • Spasms, muscle cramps and uncontrollable muscle twitching
  • Weakness, nausea and vomiting
  • Visual disturbances or vision loss
  • Headache or severe headache
  • Numbness, tingling or weakness in your legs
  • Bowel, bladder and/or sexual dysfunction
  • Bizarre sensations like water trickling down your leg or insects crawling on your skin.

If arachnoiditis progresses, your signs and symptoms may become more severe and permanent.

You or a loved one may have arachnoiditis. Arachnoiditis and/or complications that have been caused by this disease may have resulted in your disability and inability to work.

Because of this, you may need assistance. You may need financial help.

You or your loved one may be thinking about applying 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 arachnoiditis and/or complications that have been caused by this disease. You or your loved one may have already done this and been denied by the Social Security Administration.

If you or your loved one has considered reapplying or appealing the denial, think about this. People who are represented by a disability attorney like the one you will find at Social Security Home are approved more often than people who do not have a disability lawyer fighting for them.

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Cerebral Hypoxia and Receiving Social Security Disability

Monday, January 3rd, 2011

Your brain is an extremely interesting and unique organ. The center of your nervous system is your brain.

Your brain monitors and regulates your body’s actions and reactions. Your brain continuously receives sensory information. It rapidly analyzes this data and then responds by controlling your bodily functions and actions.

Cerebral hypoxia is a condition in which the supply of oxygen to your brain is reduced even though there is adequate blood flow to your brain. Technically, cerebral hypoxia is a condition that refers to a lack of oxygen supply to the outer part of your brain. However, cerebral hypoxia is typically used in regard to a lack of oxygen supply to your entire brain.

There are four separate categories of cerebral hypoxia that are based on the severity and location of oxygen depravation. They are:

  • Diffuse cerebral hypoxia – This is a mild to moderate impairment of brain function resulting from low oxygen levels in your blood.
  • Focal cerebral ischemia – This refers to a stroke that occurs in a localized area.
  • Massive cerebral infarction – This is a stroke that involves complete oxygen depravation caused by an interference in cerebral blood flow that affects multiple areas of your brain.
  • Global cerebral ischemia – This refers to a complete stoppage of blood flow to your brain.

Cerebral hypoxia may be caused by anything that severely interferes with your brain’s ability to process or receive oxygen. There are many things that can cause this to happen. Some examples of this are shock, stroke, heart attack, extremely low blood pressure, diseases that cause paralysis of your breathing muscles, asphyxiation from smoke inhalation, compression of your trachea (windpipe), drug overdose, drowning, choking, carbon monoxide poisoning, strangulation and high altitudes.

There are several signs and symptoms that may be an indication of cerebral hypoxia. Some of these are:

  • A reduction of short-term memory
  • Inattentiveness (change in attention)
  • Difficulties with complex learning tasks
  • Cognitive disturbances
  • Poor judgment
  • Decreased motor control like uncoordinated movement
  • Cyanosis (skin appearing bluish)
  • Increased heart rate
  • Loss of consciousness
  • Coma (complete unresponsiveness and unawareness
  • Seizures
  • Loss of brain stem reflexes (pupils reacting to light, gagging, blinking).

You may have a loved one who has survived cerebral hypoxia. Cerebral hypoxia and/or complications resulting from this condition may have brought about your loved one’s disability and inability to work.

As a result, you may need assistance in caring for your loved one. You may need financial help.

You may have decided to apply for the financial assistance that you need to care for your loved one from the Social Security Administration by applying for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits on behalf of your loved one because of the disability caused by cerebral hypoxia and/or complications resulting from this condition. You may have already applied and been denied by the Social Security Administration.

If you intend to reapply or appeal the denial of your loved one, consider this. People who have a disability lawyer in their corner like the one at Social Security Home are approved more often than people who are not represented by a disability attorney.

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Ectropion and Receiving Social Security Disability Benefits

Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
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Your eyesight is one of the most precious and important of all your senses and abilities. What price would you put on your eyesight? It is truly priceless.

Ectropion is a condition in which your eyelid turns out. This is usually your lower eyelid. This leaves the surface of your inner eyelid prone and exposed to irritation.

When this condition is mild, only one segment of your eyelid turns out, away from your eye. When ectropion is severe, the entire length of your eyelid is turned out.

Ectropion is a condition that usually develops in older people. It is more common in men than in women.

There are seven different types of ectropion. These are:

  • Involutional (age-induced horizontal elongation of your eyelid)
  • Cicatricial (scar, trauma or tumor induced contracture of the outer layer of muscle and skin in your eyelid)
  • Paralytic (resulting from a nerve palsy like Bell’s palsy)
  • Punctal (eversion of the medial portion of your eyelid)
  • Mechanical (eversion of your lower lid due to inflammation or the weight of a tumor)
  • Congenital (evident at birth or shortly after)
  • Mixed mechanical (a combination of two or more causes).

Ectropion is often caused by the process of aging and the weakening of the connective tissue of your eyelid that causes it to turn out. Other possible causes of ectropion include:

  • Facial palsy like Bell’s palsy
  • Scar tissue from burns
  • A  birth defect like Down syndrome
  • Muscle weakness
  • Growths on your eyelids whether malignant or benign
  • Previous radiation, cosmetic procedures or surgery
  • Skin problems like dermatitis.

There are several signs and symptoms that may be an indication of ectropion. Some of these are:

  • Excessive tearing with weeping or watery eyes
  • Excessive dryness where your eyes feel gritty, sandy or dry
  • Irritation from dryness or stagnant tears that causes redness and a burning sensation in the whites of your eyes and your eyelids
  • Chronic (long-term) conjunctivitis
  • Your eyelid turns out
  • Keratitis (inflammation of the tissue of your cornea).

You or a loved one may have been diagnosed with ectropion. This disorder and/or complications that have resulted from or other underlying conditions along with it may be the cause of your disability.

You may need assistance if this is true. You may need financial help.

You or your loved one may be considering applying 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 ectropion and/or complications that have resulted from or other underlying conditions along with it. Have you or your loved one already applied and been turned down by the Social Security Administration?

If you or your loved one has decided to reapply or appeal the denial, remember this important fact. People who are represented by a disability attorney like the one you will find at socialsecurityhome.com are approved more often than people who do not have a disability lawyer standing with them.

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Ehrlichosis and Receiving Social Security Disability Benefits

Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
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Ehrlichosis is the general name that is used to describe several bacterial diseases. Ehrlichosis is an infection that kills white blood cells in your body.

Ehrlichosis is a bacterial illness that is transmitted by ticks. It occurs most frequently in the spring and summer. This is when ticks are active, and you are most often likely to be outdoors.

Fortunately, ehrlichosis is rare. The annual average reported incidence in the United States is about 0.7 cases per million population. However, ehrlichosis is not a reportable disease; so, many cases go unreported.

Ehrlichosis occurs most often in the states of Texas and California and the northeast and southeast regions of the United States. Some cases occur in the north central states that are west of the Great Lakes.

The signs and symptoms caused by ehrlichosis are flu-like in nature. They usually occur within 5 to 14 days after you are bitten by an infected tick and fed on by the tick for 24 hours or longer. Some of these signs and symptoms are:

§  Cough

§  Flat red rash (maculopapular rash)

§  Petechial rash (fine pinhead-sized areas of bleeding in your skin)

§  Nausea

§  Joint pain

§  Mild fever

§  Confusion

§  Vomiting

§  Headache

§  Diarrhea

§  Muscles aches

§  Chills

§  Malaise (general sick feeling).

The signs and symptoms in some people are so mild that their body is able to fight off the infection without having to see a doctor. However, in other cases, if left untreated, ehrlichosis can be serious enough so that you have to be hospitalized.

Most of the time, the Lone Star tick is the one who transmits this disease. However, it is possible for ehrlichosis to be transmitted in other ways. These are:

§  From mother to unborn child

§  Contact with an infected, slaughtered animal

§  Through blood transfusions.

You or a loved one may have had ehrlichosis. While ehrlichosis would not normally qualify you to receive Social Security disability benefits, you or your loved one may have had complications that resulted from this disease and/or other disabling conditions along with it that have caused you to be disabled.

You may need help if this is your situation. You may need financial assistance.

You or your loved one may be planning on applying 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 complications that resulted from ehrlichosis and/or other disabling conditions along with this disease. Have you or your loved one already applied and been denied by the Social Security Administration?

If you or your loved one is thinking about reapplying or appealing the denial, here is an important fact that you need to think about. People who have a disability lawyer working for them 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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Of gamers and shooters: Prisoners with SSA benefits lose them after 30 continuous days, must reapply upon release

Wednesday, October 27th, 2010

A case from Connecticut reminds us why it’s never a good idea to try to game the system.

A short piece posted Oct. 26 at NorwichBulletin.com say, “A New London man faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine after pleading guilty Tuesday to charges he fraudulently received Social Security disability payments, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.”

Forty-four year-old Mario Torres-Ortiz entered a guilty plea to a charge of making a materially false statement to an agency or department of the United States. Court records indicated the man began receiving Social Security Disability payments 1993.

But in May 2009, “he submitted a form to the Social Security Administration stating he had not worked since 2000. Investigators later found he had worked from May 2007 through May 2009. During those months, Torres-Ortiz obtained $19,585 in disability benefits to which he was not entitled, authorities said.”

Shooter hopes to retain benefits

In the department of bizarre, a Maryland man convicted of shooting a woman in her face has gone back to seeking a modification of his already lightened sentence because if he’s in lockup too long, he’ll lose his Social Security Disability benefits.

To add another twist? The man’s name is John Alvin Lucky.

But he wasn’t lucky in the ruling on his motion. According to an Oct. 25 article in The Herald Mail, District Judge Dana Moylan Wright, who handed out his original sentence in June, denied the motion saying, “You got as light a sentence as I could stomach.”

According to the article, the case began in August 2009, when Hagerstown police responded to a report of gunfire at an apartment. There they found 18-year-old Stephanie Renee Dews, who had been shot in the face.

He ‘fumbled with the pistol’

“Lucky told police he ‘fumbled with the pistol’ and it went off, the [probable cause]  statement said. However, [Assistant State’s Attorney Leon] Debes said that Dews later told investigators that Lucky was loading and unloading the semiautomatic pistol, pointing it at her and pulling the trigger.

“Although the shooting was not intentional, Debes said Lucky ‘wanted to scare Ms. Dews.’ ”

Suspended sentence

In February, Lucky pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment, “but withdrew the plea the same day, re-entering a guilty plea to the same charge in April, according to court records.” Released on an appeal bond after his sentencing hearing in June, Lucky had another change of mind, withdrew the appeal, and got sentenced to five years in prison for reckless endangerment, with four years suspended and sent to the Washington County Detention Center for 90 days, to be followed with nine months’ home detention.

Prisoners lose benefits after 30 days–state has ‘no sympathy’

According to his attorney, Lucky’s motion requested a sentence modification–such as serving on weekends–before serving 30 days continuously. That the threshhold at which the SSDI benefits are threatened. Once lost, the benefits must be re-applied for.

“Debes also noted that the Social Security Administration pamphlet, ‘What Prisoners Need to Know,’ states that prisoners can get benefits reinstated the month after the month they are released.

” ‘The state does not have any sympathy for Mr. Lucky,’ Debes said. Dews lost her home, car and could not pay her medical bills, he said.”

The SSA pamphlet

Following is a related excerpt from that SSA pamphlet:

What happens to my benefits when I am in prison?

If you are receiving Social Security, your benefits will be suspended if you are admitted for more than 30 continuous days to a jail or prison because you were convicted of a criminal offense. Your benefits can be reinstated starting with the month following the month you are released.

Although you cannot receive monthly Social Security benefits while you are confined, benefits to your spouse or children will continue as long as they remain eligible.

If you are receiving SSI, your payments are suspended while you are in prison. Your payments can be reinstated in the month you are released. However, if your confinement lasts for 12 consecutive months or longer, your eligibility for SSI benefits will terminate and you must file a new application for benefits.

Can I get my benefits started when I am ready to be released?

If your Social Security or SSI benefits were suspended because you were in prison, you can request that they be started. You will need to contact Social Security and provide a copy of your release documents before we can take action on your request.

Example: George was receiving Social Security disability benefits. He was convicted and confined to prison on May 15, 2007, and his benefits were suspended effective with May 2007.
On October 10, 2009, George was released and his benefits were reinstated effective with November 2009. Since Social Security benefits are paid in the month following the month for which they are due, George will receive his November benefit in December.

Example: Sam was receiving SSI disability benefits and was confined to prison on June 7, 2009. He was released on September 7, 2009. His SSI can be reinstated as of September 7. Sam will be eligible for a partial payment for September and full benefits for October.

If you were not receiving either Social Security or SSI benefits before you went to prison or your SSI benefits were terminated, you will need to file a new application for benefits if you think you may be eligible. You should contact Social Security for more information about filing a claim for benefits. You will need to provide proof of your release from prison, in addition to a new application and other documents.

NOTE: We cannot start your benefits until you are actually released. And we must have your official release documents from the jail or prison where you were confined. Please remember to bring your release forms when you visit your local Social Security office. This will help us get your benefits started more quickly.

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Conversion Disorder and Receiving Social Security Disability

Monday, October 11th, 2010
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You find yourself in a situation where you are afraid to talk. Then, following the situation, you lose your voice and are unable to speak. What caused this to happen?

You may have a neurological disorder called conversion disorder. This is a disorder where physical symptoms are unconsciously caused by a traumatic or stressful situation.

Conversion disorder is one of several psychological disorders that are called somatoform disorders. These are psychological disorders that are marked by physical symptoms that have no discernable physical cause.

Conversion disorder is also known by other names. It is also referred to as hysterical neurosis, conversion type and Briquet’s syndrome.

Fortunately, conversion disorder is rare. It can show up at any age, but it usually develops from late childhood to early adulthood. It has been estimated that women outnumber men with this psychological disorder as much as 6 to 1.

The signs and symptoms of conversion disorder usually affect your senses or your movement. Things like your ability to see, hear, walk or swallow are examples of what may be affected by this disorder.

It is well to remember that the signs and symptoms of conversion disorder are involuntary. In other words, you have no control over them. You do not consciously act out or pretend to have these signs and symptoms.

The signs and symptoms of conversion disorder usually happen suddenly after a traumatic or stressful event. There are several different signs and symptoms that you may experience. These include:

  • Loss of one of your senses like deafness or blindness
  • Crawling or tingling sensations
  • Impairment of your balance or coordination
  • Loss of sensation in a part of your body
  • Loss of the sense of pain
  • Paralysis of a leg or arm
  • The sensation of a lump in your throat or a problem swallowing
  • Convulsions or seizures
  • Inability to speak
  • Problems with walking
  • Urinary retention
  • Hallucinations.

You or a loved one may have conversion disorder. This disorder and/or complications resulting from it may be the reason why you are not able to work. It may be causing you or your loved one’s disability.

If this is so, you may need assistance. You may need financial help.

You or your loved one may be thinking about applying 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 conversion disorder and/or complications resulting from this condition. Have you or your loved one tried this option already and been denied by the Social Security Administration?

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

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Sweet Syndrome and Receiving Social Security Disability

Friday, October 8th, 2010
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Sweet syndrome is a skin disorder that is characterized by painful skin lesions that develop primarily on your arms, back, face and neck. These are tender red lumps (plaques) that show up suddenly.

Sweet syndrome is named after Doctor Robert Douglas Sweet from Plymouth, England. He first described this disorder in 1964.

This condition is also known by other names. It is referred to as acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis and acute neutrophilic dermatosis.

Sweet syndrome is most common in middle-aged women. However, it can also develop in children, men, older adults and even infants.

Many times, the cause of Sweet syndrome is unknown. In some instances, this condition is triggered by illness, certain medications or an infection. Sweet syndrome also sometimes develops in conjunction with some kinds of cancer and other serious medical conditions. In fact, Sweet syndrome can be an early sign or indicator of cancer.

There are some risk factors that may increase your likelihood of getting Sweet syndrome. Some of these are:

  • Pregnancy
  • Being female
  • Being a woman between the ages of 30 and 50
  • Having a history of this disease because it has a habit of recurring.

The primary and most obvious sign or symptom of Sweet syndrome is the characteristic skin lesions of this disease. They are usually:

  • Bumps that quickly grow in size and spread into clusters that are called plaques
  • Persistent for weeks or months and then go away on their own without medication
  • A series of small red bumps
  • Tender and painful and may develop pustules, blisters or ulcers.

There are other signs and symptoms that you may also experience with Sweet syndrome. These include:

  • Moderate to high fever
  • Ulcers in your mouth
  • Sore eyes or pink eye (conjunctivitis)
  • Headache and aching joints
  • Tiredness and malaise (not feeling well).

You or a loved one may have been diagnosed with Sweet syndrome. This disease may be why you or your loved one is disabled and unable to work.

You may need help if this is true. You may need financial assistance.

You or your loved one may be thinking about applying for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits from the Social Security Administration because of the disability caused by Sweet syndrome and/or complications resulting from or other conditions in conjunction with this disease? You or your loved one may have already done this and been turned down by the Social Security Administration.

If you or your loved one is going to appeal the denial by the Social Security Administration, you need to keep this in mind. People who are represented by a reliable disability attorney like the one at socialsecurityhome.com are approved more often than those people who do not have a lawyer.

Photo source Cohen PR: Sweet’s syndrome – a comprehensive review of an acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis. Orphanet J Rare Dis. 2007 Jul 26;2:34. PMID 17655751

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Corticobasal Degeneration and Receiving Social Security Disability

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010

Corticobasal degeneration (CBD) is a rare progressive neurodegenerative disease. It is marked by nerve cell loss and atrophy of several areas of the brain. This includes the cerebral cortex and the basal ganglia.

The outer layer (cortex) of the brain is severely affected. This is especially true of the fronto-parietal regions. These are located near the center-top of the head. Deeper regions of the brain are also affected. This includes the basal ganglia. This is where the name “corticobasal” comes from.

Corticobasal degeneration usually progresses slowly. It is the combined loss of brain tissue in all of the affected areas of the brain that causes the signs and symptoms of corticobasal degeneration.

Corticobasal degeneration is similar genetically, pathologically and clinically to frontotemporal dementia. Frontotemporal dementia is an umbrella term for a diverse group of uncommon disorders that are a type of dementia that primarily affect the temporal and frontal lobes of the brain.

Dementia is a loss of brain function that is a feature of certain diseases. It affects language, behavior, thinking and judgment.

Corticobasal degeneration usually occurs when a person is between the ages of 45 and 70. Women are affected more often than men.

No one knows what causes corticobasal degeneration. There is no strong evidence at this time that this disease is inherited. There are also no known risk factors like infections or toxins that have been identified at the present time for corticobasal degeneration.

There have been studies of brain tissue of people with this disease that show certain characteristic cell changes that involve a brain protein called tau. This may give some help to researchers who are searching for the cause or causes of corticobasal degeneration.

The initial signs and symptoms of corticobasal degeneration are usually unilateral (one-sided). As the disease advances, signs and symptoms become bilateral (both sides). Some of the signs and symptoms include:

  • Difficulty swallowing (dysphagia)
  • Memory loss
  • Poor coordination
  • Slow, clumsy or shaky movements
  • Rigidity or stiffness
  • Halting and hesitant speech
  • Difficulty with comprehension
  • Loss of intellectual ability
  • Problems with balance
  • Visual-spatial impairment
  • Loss of movement control.

You may have a loved one with corticobasal degeneration. This disease and/or complications that have resulted from it may be causing your loved one’s disability.

As a result, you may need assistance for and with your loved one. You may need financial help.

You may have thought about applying for the financial assistance that you need from the Social Security Administration for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits on behalf of your loved one because of the disability caused by corticobasal degeneration and/or complications that have resulted from this disease. You may have already done this, and your loved one was denied by the Social Security Administration.

If you appeal the denial on behalf of your loved one, think about this. People who are represented by a disability attorney like the one you will find at socialsecurityhome.com are approved more often that people who do not have a disability lawyer.

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Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and Receiving Social Security Disability

Saturday, September 4th, 2010

Multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) is the name that has been given by some to a condition in which various symptoms reportedly occur after a person has been exposed to any of a wide range of chemicals. The exposure may happen during a major event like a chemical spill or from long-term exposure to low-levels of chemicals, such as in an office with poor ventilation. As a result of exposure, people with multiple chemical sensitivity have reactions and develop sensitivity to the chemicals even at levels most other people can tolerate.

There are other names for this condition. “Environmental illness” and “sick building syndrome” are other names for this condition.

There is disagreement over whether or not multiple chemical sensitivity is really a distinct physical disorder. The American Medical Association (AMA), Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology do not consider multiple chemical sensitivity a distinct physical disorder.

There are three reasons why these groups do not consider multiple chemical sensitivity to be a distinct physical disorder. First, clinical evidence is lacking that supports a physical cause for the signs and symptoms people with this condition experience. Second, people with multiple chemical sensitivity do not develop antibodies in response to this chemical exposure, as is the case with allergic or immune system reaction. Third, people with this condition also have high rates of mental health disorders. These include anxiety, depression and somatoform disorders. Somatoform disorders are mental disorders that are shown through physical signs and symptoms.

People with multiple chemical sensitivity have expressed a wide variety of signs and symptoms. Some of these are:

  • Diarrhea
  • Nausea
  • Fatigue
  • Gas or bloating
  • Headache
  • Confusion
  • Irritability
  • Hives or skin rash
  • Itching
  • Sneezing
  • Sore throat
  • Mood changes
  • Problems concentrating
  • Memory problems
  • Chest pain
  • Problems breathing
  • Changes in heart rhythm
  • Muscle stiffness and/or pain.

You may be one of those with multiple chemical sensitivity. It may have become such a problem for you that it is the reason for your disability.

You may need financial help if you are unable to work. You may have tried to get this help from the Social Security Administration by applying for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits because of the disability caused by multiple chemical sensitivity.

If you did this, you were probably denied and told by the Social Security Administration that multiple chemical sensitivity is not a recognized and covered disability. What options do you have now?

If you have other disabling conditions in addition to multiple chemical sensitivity there is a distinct possibility that you could be eligible for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits. The reliable disability attorney at Social Security Home is the one who can help you make the decision on whether to reapply or appeal the denial by the Social Security Administration.

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