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Hi everyone,
This is my first time posting on this forum, but I have been reading for over a year and I am very grateful for all your help. I am a 40-year old woman and I got sick a year and a half ago and was diagnosed last summer after I had to leave a career that I thought would be forever. I thought I would get better enough to find a less stressful job, but I have steadily gotten worse and now, mostly bedbound, I finally started the application for SSDI. I was by far the main bread-winner in our family, so I'm worried we will lose everything if I can't work again. I got as far as the section where I list my conditions and I have no idea what the best course of action is.
I have ME/CFS ~ do I stick with only this condition? Or would it be beneficial to list the anxiety and depression that have emerged in the last year because of this disease (both I think could be clinically diagnosed based on what my therapist says). I also have "post-infectious IBS" (my first Dx when this all started) and OI/POTS (but this hasn't been Dxed offically, but the fainting and dizziness and heart rate problems leave no doubt) ~ should I list those? Finally, right before coming down with ME/CFS, I was Dxed with autoimmune urticaria/angioedema and a few years before that had toxic multinodular goiters on my thyroid which have supposedly been taken care of with radiation and hormone replacement. Should I list those conditions?
I'm sorry for the long message. I tried to bold the important parts. Thank you in advance for any help. I appreciate you all!!
This is my first time posting on this forum, but I have been reading for over a year and I am very grateful for all your help. I am a 40-year old woman and I got sick a year and a half ago and was diagnosed last summer after I had to leave a career that I thought would be forever. I thought I would get better enough to find a less stressful job, but I have steadily gotten worse and now, mostly bedbound, I finally started the application for SSDI. I was by far the main bread-winner in our family, so I'm worried we will lose everything if I can't work again. I got as far as the section where I list my conditions and I have no idea what the best course of action is.
I have ME/CFS ~ do I stick with only this condition? Or would it be beneficial to list the anxiety and depression that have emerged in the last year because of this disease (both I think could be clinically diagnosed based on what my therapist says). I also have "post-infectious IBS" (my first Dx when this all started) and OI/POTS (but this hasn't been Dxed offically, but the fainting and dizziness and heart rate problems leave no doubt) ~ should I list those? Finally, right before coming down with ME/CFS, I was Dxed with autoimmune urticaria/angioedema and a few years before that had toxic multinodular goiters on my thyroid which have supposedly been taken care of with radiation and hormone replacement. Should I list those conditions?
I'm sorry for the long message. I tried to bold the important parts. Thank you in advance for any help. I appreciate you all!!