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Bowelgina and Receiving Social Security Disability Benefits

Tuesday, March 8th, 2011

The word, “angina” probably causes you to think of a problem that is associated with your heart. However, angina can also be used in reference to abdominal pain.

Bowelgina is postprandial abdominal pain that develops when you do not have enough blood flow to meet your mesenteric visceral demands. Bowelgina is intermittent abdominal pain that frequently occurs at a fixed time after eating.

Fortunately, bowelgina is extremely rare. Women are three times more likely to have bowelgina than men. It develops most often in people over 60 years of age.

Bowelgina is not a disease. It is a sign or symptom of an underlying condition that is causing this condition.

The most common underlying cause of bowelgina is your intestines and stomach being temporarily deprived of sufficient amounts of blood that are required for these organs to do their job properly. This poor circulation of blood is almost always the result of hardening of the arteries. This is a condition that is referred to as arteriosclerosis. In rare cases there can be other things that cause bowelgina. These include:

§  Antiphospholipid syndrome

§  Carcinoid tumor

§  Aortic coarctation.

There is one primary risk factor for bowelgina. It is smoking. Somewhere between 75 and 80% of the people who suffer with bowelgina are smokers.

Just as bowelgina may be the main sign or symptom of the underlying condition that is causing it, the main sign or symptom of bowelgina is disabling central abdominal pain that usually starts 10-15 minutes after eating. This pain usually increases in intensity until it reaches a plateau. Then, it slowly subsides several hours after eating.

At the beginning, this pattern of pain usually only develops after eating a large meal. However, with the passage of time, the pain develops even after small meals. You start to associate eating a meal with pain.

Another sign or symptom of bowelgina is significant weight loss. This is weight loss that is unintentional.

You or a loved one may have bowelgina. Bowelgina may be the main sign or symptom that you are experiencing with an underlying condition that is the reason for you or your loved one’s disability and not being able to work.

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

You or your loved one may be intending 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 your disability that has been caused by the underlying condition that you have whose main sign or symptom is bowelgina. You may have already applied and been denied by the Social Security Administration.

If you or your loved one is planning on reapplying or appealing the denial, here is an important fact that you really ought to think about. The simple truth is that people who have a disability attorney 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 lawyer.

Please do not wait. This is a matter of great importance to you or your loved one. Contact us today so we can connect you with someone who can help you with your disability appeal.

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Stevens-Johnson Syndrome and Receiving Social Security Disability

Friday, February 25th, 2011
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Stevens-Johnson syndrome is a serious disorder that is rare. It is marked by your mucous membranes and skin reacting severely to an underlying cause like infection, illness or medication. With Stevens-Johnson syndrome, cell death causes your epidermis to separate from your dermis.

Your skin is the outer covering of your body. Your skin is part of your integumentary system. It is the largest organ of your body and the organ system that protects your body from damage.

Your skin is made up of three layers. Each layer is important. The outer layer of your skin is your epidermis. It is the layer on the surface of your skin. New skin cells are made at the bottom of your epidermis. The next layer of your skin is the dermis. It contains tiny blood vessels that keep your skin healthy by removing waste and bringing them the oxygen and nutrients that they need. The third layer of your skin is subcutaneous fat. It helps your body stay warm and absorbs shocks.

Stevens-Johnson syndrome occurs most often in adolescents and young adults, although it can happen to anyone at any time. Men have this disorder twice as often as women.

Stevens-Johnson syndrome is named after Albert Mason Stevens and Frank Chambliss Johnson. They are the American pediatricians who described this disorder in 1922.

The specific cause of Stevens-Johnson syndrome is not always known. As mentioned earlier, it is usually an allergic reaction to an illness, medication or infection.

There are several signs and symptoms that may occur with Stevens-Johnson syndrome. Some of these are:

§  Skin pain

§  Sloughing (shedding) of your skin

§  Swelling of your face

§  Blisters on your mucous membranes and skin, especially in your nose, eyes and mouth

§  Swelling of your tongue

§  Hives

§  A purple or red rash that spreads within hours to days.

If you have this disorder, several days before you see the rash, you may have:

  • A cough
  • Burning eyes
  • Fever
  • Sore throat.

You or a loved one may have had Stevens-Johnson syndrome. Complications that have resulted from or the underlying condition that has caused this disorder may be the cause of you or your loved one’s disability.

You may need assistance if this is your situation. 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 complications that have resulted from Stevens-Johnson syndrome and/or the underlying condition that has caused this disorder. You or your loved one may have already taken this step and been denied by the Social Security Administration.

If you or your loved one is planning on reapplying or appealing the denial, think about this important fact. The simple truth is that 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 fighting for them.

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Osteomyelitis and Receiving Social Security Disability Benefits

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Osteomyelitis is the medical term that is used to refer to infection in a bone. Infections can start in one of your bones if some kind of trauma exposes your bone to germs. Infections can also reach one of your bones by spreading from a tissue that is close by or going through your blood stream.

Osteomyelitis usually affects the long bones in your body. These are your upper arm bone or your leg bones. Osteomyelitis can also affect your pelvis and spine.

Osteomyelitis can either be an acute or chronic condition in adults. In children it is usually an acute condition. Osteomyelitis affects around 2 out of every 10,000 people in the United States.

Osteomyelitis can be caused by a variety of bacteria and fungi. The most common is staphylococcus aureus. Other causes include:

  • Bacteria in your bloodstream that gets in a localized area of your bone
  • A minor trauma that can result in a blood clot around your bone and then a secondary infection
  • A soft tissue infection or a chronic open wound
  • Any kind of open injury to a bone where it pierces your skin
  • An infection from another place in your body that spreads to your bone through your blood stream.

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

  • Fever that is abrupt
  • Chills
  • Nausea that is a result of being sick with an infection
  • Sweating excessively
  • Tenderness and/or pain in the affected bone
  • Swelling of your legs, feet or ankles
  • Malaise (general feeling of sickness, discomfort or uneasiness)
  • Changes in your gait (the way you walk)
  • Warmth, redness and swelling in the affected bone
  • Lower back pain if your spine is affected
  • The drainage of pus through your skin
  • Lethargy or irritability in young children
  • Chronic fatigue.

You or a loved one may have been diagnosed with osteomyelitis. This condition and/or complications resulting from or other conditions along with it may be why you are not able to work. It may be causing you or your loved one’s disability.

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

You or your loved one may have applied for the financial assistance that you need by applying for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits from the Social Security Administration because of the disability caused by osteomyelitis and/or complications resulting from or other conditions along with it. Were you or your loved one denied by the Social Security Administration?

If you or your loved one is considering appealing the denial by the Social Security Administration, always remember this. 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.

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Adrenocortical Carcinoma and Receiving Social Security Disability

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Adrenocortical carcinoma is a cancer that begins in your adrenal cortex. This is the outside layer of your adrenal gland.

Adrenocortical carcinoma is also referred to by other names. It is also called adrenal cancer, cancer of the adrenal cortex, adrenocortical cancer and adrenal carcinoma.

Fortunately, adrenocortical carcinoma is rare. It affects one or two people per one million in population.

It usually develops in adults who are in their 30s and 40s. There is also a childhood form of the disease that usually occurs in children under 5.

Adrenocortical carcinoma may not cause any signs or symptoms in its early stage. As it progresses, there are many different signs and symptoms that this disease may produce depending on whether you are a boy or girl, man or woman and which hormone this cancer is producing too much of. Adrenocortical carcinoma can cause too much testosterone, cortisol, aldosterone or estrogen.

If there is too much testosterone in women:

  • Balding
  • No menstrual periods
  • Fine hair growth on your arms, upper back or face
  • Deepening voice
  • Acne
  • Men making too much testosterone usually have no symptoms.

If there is too much cortisol:

  • A lump of fat on the back of your neck
  • High blood pressure
  • Fine hair growth on your arms, upper back or face
  • Round, red, full face
  • High blood sugar
  • Weight gain in your neck, face and the trunk of your body with thin legs and arms
  • Muscle weakness
  • Deepening of your voice and swelling of your breasts or sex organs in both women and men.

If there is too much aldosterone:

  • Frequent urination
  • High blood pressure
  • A feeling of thirst
  • Muscle cramps or weakness.

If there is too much estrogen in women:

  • Menstrual bleeding in those who have passed through menopause
  • Irregular menstrual periods in younger women.

If there is too much estrogen in men:

  • Impotence
  • Growth of breast tissue
  • Lower sex drive.

You or your child with disability may have adrenocortical carcinoma. It may be why you are disabled and unable to work.

Do you need help because of this disability? Do you need financial assistance?

Have you applied for that financial help from the Social Security Administration for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits for you or your child with disability because of the disability caused by adrenocortical carcinoma? Were you or your child with disability turned down?

If you are planning on appealing the denial by the Social Security Administration, here is something that you always need to remember. People who are represented by a disability attorney like the one you will find at socialsecurityhome.com are approved more often than people without a lawyer.

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Allergic Vasculitis and Receiving Social Security Disability

Friday, January 15th, 2010

Vasculitis is a wide, sweeping term that refers to a group of uncommon diseases that are evidenced by inflammation of your blood vessels. Your vascular system refers to the blood vessels of your body. Your blood vessels are composed of arteries that carry oxygen-rich blood to your body’s tissues, and veins that return oxygen-depleted blood from your tissues to your lungs for oxygen. Vasculitis is marked by inflammation in and damage to the walls of various blood vessels in your body.

Each one of this group of diseases is characterized by distribution of blood vessel involvement, certain patterns of particular organ involvement and laboratory test abnormalities. As a group, these diseases are referred to as vasculitides.

Allergic Vasculitis is one of the many types of vasculitis. It is hypersensitivity to a foreign substance or drug. This results in damage and inflammation to the blood vessels of your skin.

Fortunately, allergic vasculitis is a rare disease. It affects about 6 in every 100,000 people in the United States. Most of the people with this disease are over the age of 15.

Allergic vasculitis is also referred to by other names. It is also called hypersensitivity vasculitis, leukocytoclastic vasculitis and cutaneous vasculitis.

As mentioned earlier, allergic vasculitis is caused by an allergic reaction or hypersensitivity to a drug or another foreign substance. However, even with a complete medical history, no one knows what causes this hypersensitivity or allergic reaction to take place.

There are several signs and symptoms that you may have with allergic vasculitis. Some of these are:

  • Open sores with dead tissue (necrotic ulcers)
  • Skin lesions that are usually found on your buttocks, trunk or legs
  • Hives (urticaria) that may remain for more than a day
  • Blisters on your skin
  • The appearance of red or purple discolorations on your skin.

You or a loved one may be suffering with allergic vasculitis. This disease and/or complications resulting from or other conditions along with it may be the reason for you or your loved one’s disability. It may be why you need financial help.

Where will the financial assistance that you need come from? Who can and will help you?

Have you or your loved one thought 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 allergic vasculitis and/or complications resulting from or other conditions along with this disease? Have you or your loved one already taken this step and been denied by the Social Security Administration?

If you or your loved one has decided to appeal the denial by the Social Security Administration, you need to remember this. 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.

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