Is any one else getting extra questioning, extra diagnosing from Dr.'s not your own regular Dr., additional proof needed of your disability after the regular Disability Review Process is supposedly finished? I did my normal review this last winter/spring. Now out of the blue, they are saying there isn't enough "proof" of disability in their records/my file to determine disability. My Dr. even asked why are they sending you to someone else?, when I am your Dr.? I haven't had any M.R.I.'s since fall/winter of 2009. So I am going to ask my P.M. Doc to order a new one from top to end of my spine. I know it's getting worse. The facts of what disease is in my spine is that it will slowly get worse never really better. Degenerative disc disease, stenosis, laceration of disc with nerve protruding out where it is irritated by the slightest swelling or wrong movements, disc is bone on bone where the nerve is exposed, discs above & below that one are going slowly, arthritis, and that's just the lower lumbar. My neck is beginning to do things like my lower back now. I am happy it took it 20 extra years to actually become bothersome, however it is now causing numb finger tips and I pulled it way out of alignment this spring which caused actual pain & inability to move it in certain ways I am supposing all the financial troubles in Washington are the cause for the need to spend more $ proving I am as disabled as I am. I wonder if they are really this ignorant or if it is just more red-tape process. I know of no gainful employment where an employer would be able to pay me for being this ill. The pain, pain-meds, and inability to do much physical anything is enough to laugh me away from any job. My quality of life is dictated daily by my pain level and I haven't even gone into detail about how the rest of my body reacts daily to if I can eat enough nutrition, whether I can have regular bowel movements, or if I am stuck on the toilet for most of the day and night because of the damage done to my stomach & intestines from NSAIDS when they didn't want to medicate me properly years ago. I am just venting because I know there is no reason for them to deny me as the proof is everywhere. I just went into the past , remembering how the last job I worked before I just couldn't do it anymore was insane. I worked part time just to pay for the state insurance which covered nothing and the $ to pay for my medications. I was making only enough to do that,. When I was attempting to train for manager position & went to full-time plus hours I lasted 2 weeks before the pain was out of control and beyond the medications ability to diminish it enough to even stand or sit. I guess I am just tired enough dealing with what is dictated to me daily by the medical issues and when ever anything else is added to my plate it sends me over the edge. I just finished going through a month-plus detoxing, in out of control pain, alone at home with nothing to take the edge of the physical nightmare because the timed-release medication stopped digesting in my messed up stomach months ago. I am almost back to what I call normal which is still a crap-shute with meds, constipation, pain, sleep etc..... I cannot even keep my home clean, or go to the grocery store, or anything normal healthy people do after their work day is done!!

Sorry for the downer... I am usually looking for the best in the worst, but sometimes this stuff really irks me.