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Diffuse Thyrotoxic Goiter and Receiving Social Security Disability

Saturday, July 2nd, 2011
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Diffuse thyrotoxic goiter is the most common kind of hyperthyroidism (overactivity of your thyroid gland).  In fact, diffuse thyrotoxic goiter represents about 50 to 60% of the 500,000 people who are diagnosed with hyperthyroidism each year in the United States.

Diffuse thyrotoxic goiter is a disorder that may develop at any age to either women or men. However, diffuse thyrotoxic goiter is far more common in women than it is in men. This disorder usually starts after the age of 20.

Diffuse thyrotoxic goiter is a kind of autoimmune disorder that causes your thyroid gland to make too much of the hormone thyroxine. An autoimmune disorder is one where for some unknown reason your body’s immune system mistakenly attacks the cells and tissues of your own body. In the case of diffuse thyrotoxic goiter, your immune system makes antibodies that stimulate your thyroid to produce too much thyroxine.

As stated above, diffuse thyrotoxic goiter is believed to be an autoimmune disorder. However, researchers do not know what causes your immune system to attack your thyroid gland. They believe that several factors could be involved in causing your immune system to do this. Some of these factors include:

  • Age and stress
  • Sex
  • Sex hormones
  • Heredity.

In some cases, diffuse thyrotoxic goiter may not cause any signs or symptoms. However, there are many signs and symptoms that you may have with this disorder. The signs and symptoms that are caused by diffuse thyrotoxic goiter may develop slowly or occur suddenly. It is possible for these signs and symptoms to be confused with other medical conditions. Some of the possible signs and symptoms include:

  • Difficulty for a woman to get pregnant
  • Weakness and fatigue
  • Unintended weight loss
  • Changes in your vision or how your eyes look
  • Frequent bowel movements
  • Irritability
  • Lighter menstrual flow
  • Sensitivity to heat
  • Muscular weakness
  • Hand tremors
  • Rapid heartbeat
  • Trouble sleeping.

Diffuse thyrotoxic goiter is the only kind of hyperthyroidism that involves the tissue around your eyes swelling and bulging of your eyes. In rare instances, you may have a reddish lumpy thickening of the skin in front of your shins that is known as pretibial myxedema. This condition is usually painless.

You or a loved one may be suffering from diffuse thyrotoxic goiter. Diffuse thyrotoxic goiter and/or complications that have been brought about by it or other conditions that you have along with this disorder may have caused you or your loved one’s disability and be the reason why you cannot work.

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Cardiac Arrhythmia and Receiving Social Security Disability

Wednesday, November 24th, 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 an experienced disability attorney like the one you will find here 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 an established disability lawyer in their corner are approved more often than those people who are not represented by an attorney.

Do not hesitate. Do not wait. This may affect you or your loved one for the rest of your life. Contact the confident disability lawyer at Social Security Home, today.

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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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Tachycardia and Receiving Social Security Disability Benefits

Friday, September 11th, 2009

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 tachycardia? Were you or your loved one denied?

Tachycardia is a medical term that refers to a kind or type of cardiac arrhythmia. Cardiac arrhythmias are conditions where your heart rate is either too slow or too fast.  Bradycardia refers to a heart rate that is too slow. Tachycardia refers to a heart rate that is too fast.

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Usually, in an adult, tachycardia refers to a heart rate greater than 100 beats a minute.  However, tachycardia can be a normal physiological reaction to stress. Tachycardia can cause problems requiring medical treatment, and in some cases it can be life threatening.

There are three ways in which tachycardia can hurt you. First, tachycardia can change the balance of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the hemoglobin in your blood. Second, tachycardia can cause your heart to pump blood less efficiently. Third, tachycardia can cause you to feel out of breath or cause angina.

Your likelihood of getting tachycardia increases as you age. Most people with tachycardia have other heart problems that contribute to the development of this condition. Some of these are:

  • Pericarditis
  • Dysfunction of your heart’s natural pacemaker (sinus node)
  • Abnormalities of your heart valves
  • Long-term high blood pressure
  • Abnormalities of your heart’s pumping function.

Other people may develop tachycardia that have no underlying heart problems. In this case, possible causes for tachycardia are:

  • Abnormalities within individual heart cells
  • An overactive thyroid or other metabolic imbalance
  • Abnormal electrical properties of groups of heart cells
  • Exposure to heart stimulants like alcohol, tobacco or caffeine
  • Emphysema or other lung diseases.

You may not be affected by tachycardia. If you do have effects they may include:

  • Shortness of breath
  • Clamminess
  • Dizziness
  • Light-headedness
  • Chest pain
  • Palpitations
  • A fast pulse.

As mentioned above, you may not be affected by tachycardia. However, the effects caused by tachycardia can be severe and debilitating.

Tachycardia may be the reason that you or a loved one is unable to work. This condition may be the cause of you or your loved one’s disability.

If this is the case, do you or your loved one need help? Do you need financial help?

You or your loved one may be thinking about appealing the denial by the Social Security Administration. If you decide to do this, here is something that you need to think about.

You or your loved one will need a reputable disability lawyer like the one you will find at socialsecurityhome.com to represent you in the appeals process. This is true because people who are represented by a reliable disability attorney are approved more often than those people who are not represented by a lawyer.

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

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