Disability and Social Security Claims
By Linda on Mar 1, 2010 in Interesting Stories | comments(0)
Linda’s comment: I suggest you copy and paste this and/or print out and take to your doctors or any healthcare practitioners and make sure they are recording things properly in your charts. When you know your symptoms are attributed to Lyme disease, make sure this is noted.
As you find protocols that work best for you using alternatives medicine and modalities, make sure that is also noted in your files.
Excerpt:
In general, social security does not make decisions on a diagnosis, but on the restrictions and functional limitations a person has that results on their inability to work based on any training, education and experience the person had in the past.
Because Lyme disease is not listed in the “blue book”, it is even more important for those with Lyme disease to do the following.
Make sure all treating physicians understand the importance of documenting actual functional limitations in the actual patient notes.
Many physicians actually write “non-descriptive” patient notes which later are determined to be useless for SSDI purposes.
If a Lyme patient is suffering from neurological deficits that result in loss of balance and coordination, this should be clearly indicated in the patient record as attributable to Lyme disease.
