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Glycogen Storage Diseases and Receiving Social Security Disability

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
Glycogen, a branched polysaccharide
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Glycogen serves as the primary fuel reserve for the energy needs of your body. Glycogen storage diseases are genetically linked metabolic disorders that involve the enzymes regulating glycogen metabolism. They affect the processing of glycogen synthesis or breakdown within muscles, liver and other cell types.

There are more than 10 types of glycogen storage diseases. The most common forms are Types I, II, III, and IV. These are thought to account for more than 90% of all cases.

The types of glycogen storage diseases include:

  • Type Ia, or von Gierke’s disease may affect you with an enlarged fatty liver, elevated levels of lactate, lipids and uric acid in your blood, low blood sugar, impairment in growth, delaying of puberty and bones weakened by osteoporosis. Gout, liver cancer, liver tumors and chronic renal disease may develop.
  • Type Ib is similar to Type Ia. In addition, your immune system is weakened and there is the danger of bacterial infections like gum and mouth infections, pneumonia and inflammatory bowel disease.
  • Type II, or Pompe’s disease or acid maltase deficiency, is classified according to the age of onset.
  • Type III, or Cori’s disease has effects that are similar to Type 1a. It also causes an enlarged heart, muscles prone to wasting and high levels of lipids in your blood.
  • Type IV, or Andersen’s disease is usually fatal to infants.
  • Type V, or McArdle’s disease may affect you with muscle weakness and cramping caused by exercise and burgundy-colored urine after exercise.
  • Type VI, or Hers’ disease may affect you by causing low blood sugar, mildly retarded growth and an enlarged liver.
  • Type VII, or Tarui’s disease has effects that are similar to type V, but also include increased levels of uric acid and anemia.
  • Types VIII and XI have symptoms similar to Type VI.
  • ·Type IX has effects that are similar to Type VI.
  • Type X has effects that are like Type VI and IX.

You or a loved one may have a glycogen storage disease. It may be the reason you or your loved one is disabled and unable to work.

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

You or your loved one may have applied for that help from the Social Security Administration by applying for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits because of the disability caused by a glycogen storage disease. Were you or your loved one denied?

If you or your loved one is going to appeal the denial by the Social Security Administration, here is something that you need to consider. People who are represented and aided by a disability attorney like the one you will find here are approved more often than those people who do not have a lawyer.

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Dermatomyositis and Receiving Social Security Disability Benefits

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

Dermatomyositis is a type of connective tissue disease. It is related to polymyositis. Dermatomyositis is an uncommon disease characterized by muscle weakness and a distinctive skin rash.

It is a type of inflammatory muscle disease. Dermatomyositis is one of a group of conditions called inflammatory myopathies. Myopathies are abnormal conditions or diseases of your muscles.

“Derma” means skin. “Myo” means “muscles” in Greek. “Itis” means “inflamed.” When you put this together you see that dermatomyositis is muscle inflammation that is accompanied by skin-related problems.

Dermatomyositis can develop at any age. Usually, it affects children between 5 and 15 years of age or adults in their late 40s to early 60s. Women are more likely to have dermatomyositis than men. Dermatomyositis is a disease that usually develops over a period of weeks or months.

Dermatomyositis may affect you by causing:

  • Progressive muscle weakness – This happens usually in your thighs, hips, upper arms, shoulders and neck. These are the muscles closest to your torso or trunk. This muscle weakness is symmetrical. It affects both the right and left sides of your body.
  • A dusky red or violet-colored rash – This is usually on your knees, around your nails, knuckles, elbows, back, chest, face and eyelids. These areas are usually more sensitive to exposure to the sun.

There are other ways that dermatomyositis may affect you. These include:

  • Fever, weight loss and fatigue
  • Gastrointestinal infections and ulcers (more in children)
  • Hardened calcium deposits under your skin (also more common in children)
  • Dysphagia (difficulty in swallowing)
  • Muscle tenderness or pain
  • Lung problems

The muscle weakness and skin rash usually develop at the same time. Sometimes, however, the skin rash may begin a few weeks before the muscle weakness. Your skin may become hard and thick like scleroderma in some children with dermatomyositis.

The condition is called sclerodermatomyositis when this occurs. The weakness in your muscles can cause you to have problems climbing stairs, in getting out of chairs, working with your arms over your head, holding your head up or brushing your hair.

Dermatomyositis and/or complications resulting from or along with it may be the reason why you or a loved one is unable to work. It may be the cause of your disability.

You or your loved one may need assistance. You may need 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 dermatomyositis and/or complications resulting from or along with this disease? Were you or your loved one denied?

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

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Distal Muscular Dystrophy and Receiving Social Security Disability

Monday, December 28th, 2009

Muscular dystrophy is also known as (MD). Muscular dystrophy is used for a group of hereditary, genetic, muscle diseases that are characterized by progressive muscle weakness in the muscles that help your body move.

Incorrect or missing information in your genes is what causes muscular dystrophy. In order to have healthy muscles, certain proteins are needed. Muscular dystrophy prevents these from being made. Muscular dystrophy is not contagious. You cannot catch it from someone who has the disease.

Your muscles are weakened over time by muscular dystrophy. The ability to do things that most people take for granted like walking or sitting up is lost by children, teens and adults who have this disease. These problems caused by muscular dystrophy can begin at birth or shortly after. Sometimes, they can also start later on in childhood, adolescence or adulthood.

There are several different kinds of muscular dystrophy that affect different muscle groups in different ways. Distal muscular dystrophy is one of the types of this disease.

Distal muscular dystrophy was first described in 1902. It usually begins in middle age or even later. However, it can begin in childhood.

Distal muscular dystrophy is really a group of diseases rather than a single disease. Just as there are several forms of muscular dystrophy, there are also different types of distal muscular dystrophy.

This disease affects your distal muscles. These are the muscles that are farthest away from your shoulders and hips. These are the muscles in your hands, lower arms, feet and lower legs.

The primary signs and symptoms of distal muscular dystrophy are wasting and weakness in the muscles of your hands, forearms and lower legs. In time, however, other muscle groups may be affected.

The signs and symptoms of this disease usually progress slowly. Other possible signs and symptoms that you may experience include:

  • Difficulty walking
  • Frequent falls
  • A waddling gait
  • Joint contractures
  • Heart problems

Your intellect is not affected by distal muscular dystrophy.

You or your child with disability may have been diagnosed with distal muscular dystrophy. This disease may be why you or your child with disability is disabled. This disorder may be why you need financial assistance.

Have you applied for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits from the Social Security Administration for you or your child with disability because of the disability caused by distal muscular dystrophy? Were you or your child with disability denied?

If you decide to appeal the denial by the Social Security Administration, please pay close attention to this. People who are represented in the appeals process by a disability lawyer like the one you will find at socialsecurityhome.com are approved more often than those people who are not represented by an attorney.

Please do not put this off. This is something that may affect you or your child with disability for the rest of their life. Contact the dependable disability lawyer at socialsecurityhome.com, today.

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