My symptoms started 2-3 weeks before getting the vax. I’ve said the upthread a couple of times.
HEALTH I may be getting close to “semi-invalid” status
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cyberiot
Rimtas žmogus
The six people who experienced clots were all women between 18 and 48. I won't be surprised if oral contraceptives or other hormonal therapies wind up being contraindications. Back in the day, women who smoked were warned off The Pill because of the risk of stroke.
Meemur
Voice on the Prairie / FJB!
I was also wondering about that, Cyberiot. Also, one of the vaccines was causing lymph nodes to swell, so women were warned not to get mammograms for several weeks. I don't remember which one it was.
There wasn't time to do a study of the impact of the vaccine on women's hormones or hormonal therapies.
I imagine men could be impacted, as well, but in different ways.
There wasn't time to do a study of the impact of the vaccine on women's hormones or hormonal therapies.
I imagine men could be impacted, as well, but in different ways.
SurvivalRing
Rich Fleetwood - Founder - author/coder/podcaster
Dennis, I qualified for SSD and SSI in September 2019 at age 59. All due to that damn wreck while working on the mapping job.
All I own is a twenty year old Honda Accord, and a bunch of books and years old computer hardware. Between mental health needs to deal with the aftermath, and three interrelated physical back/neck issues that started after the collision AND after neck/spinal surgery ( diagnosed with degenerative disk disease, facet joint arthritis, and spondylitis, NONE of which I had before the wreck ), I qualified.
But, I literally had no income for 18 months, and sold off quite a bit of what I had while living in the St. Louis area, THEN we got flooded out of our home in a tiny place called Foley, MO, when the Mississippi three miles east of us flooded in June 2019, and our town went underwater when several levees north and south of us broke loose. The flood was the second highest in Missouri history...
Just one damn thing after another during this time frame. The only real saving grace was that in my 45 year working history, I had many years in manufacturing, 10 years as a federal employee and 9 years in state employment in Wyoming, and my monthly stipend is more than anyone I’ve talked to who’s also on SSD. The SSI payout covered our move back to Wyoming.
Apply for SSD/SSI, and use a lawyer that works solely on SSD...this ups your success and results quite a bit. I could recommend a group that helped me. I’m not a veteran, but your vet status may improve your qualifying even better than I did. After you get SSD, you’ll qualify for Medicare a year later. Six months into medicare, I’m seeing positive results with help from it.
Be glad to help here if you need it.
All I own is a twenty year old Honda Accord, and a bunch of books and years old computer hardware. Between mental health needs to deal with the aftermath, and three interrelated physical back/neck issues that started after the collision AND after neck/spinal surgery ( diagnosed with degenerative disk disease, facet joint arthritis, and spondylitis, NONE of which I had before the wreck ), I qualified.
But, I literally had no income for 18 months, and sold off quite a bit of what I had while living in the St. Louis area, THEN we got flooded out of our home in a tiny place called Foley, MO, when the Mississippi three miles east of us flooded in June 2019, and our town went underwater when several levees north and south of us broke loose. The flood was the second highest in Missouri history...
Just one damn thing after another during this time frame. The only real saving grace was that in my 45 year working history, I had many years in manufacturing, 10 years as a federal employee and 9 years in state employment in Wyoming, and my monthly stipend is more than anyone I’ve talked to who’s also on SSD. The SSI payout covered our move back to Wyoming.
Apply for SSD/SSI, and use a lawyer that works solely on SSD...this ups your success and results quite a bit. I could recommend a group that helped me. I’m not a veteran, but your vet status may improve your qualifying even better than I did. After you get SSD, you’ll qualify for Medicare a year later. Six months into medicare, I’m seeing positive results with help from it.
Be glad to help here if you need it.
Displaced hillbilly
Veteran Member
I will be showing this to hubby once we are home. Thank you for sharing it!
Displaced hillbilly
Veteran Member
My husband needs to apply for disability. Advanced congestive heart failure. He is still working, but getting harder to do so. He is terrified that we will lose everything we’ve worked hard for. Really hoping to be able to keep our home. The whole process seems overwhelming.
SurvivalRing
Rich Fleetwood - Founder - author/coder/podcaster
That’s what I felt before I started the process... utterly hopeless and quite depressed about my immediate future.
However, I started by doing a Google search for social security disability help applying. This is who I went with to apply...
Joshua Ellis is the person I worked with in the application process.
How it works...
1) call them
2) explain that you want to apply for SSD/SSI
3) answer several questions to get your background and estimate of success
4) they’ll send you a packet of forms to fill out.
5) fill out the forms and return to Myler
Once they’ve got the forms, they’ll contact you for any clarification needed before they send to Social Security.
COST: Myler only gets paid if you’re successful in qualifying...
I qualified for both SSD and SSI. The Social Security Administration (SSA) sent a couple more forms directly to me, including one about MYLER and approving them as my proxy, as well as how much they would receive of my initial payout...their fee for my case.
I had no idea that SSI only paid out for the time since the initial incident disabling me, in this case, the date of my accident. This included back pay for the months between the accident, and the date I qualified.
This lump sum was enough to cover everything required for moving back to Wyoming, from Nashville (where everything we had was in storage for two years), and from St. Louis, (where we’d put everything we could in storage when the river rose to flood us out), rental truck, fuel, three nights in a hotel heading across country, deposit and payments for mini storage once there, apartment rent and deposit, and groceries once we got our own apartment (stayed with daughter for 8 days), and then the manager expedited our application and had us in our own apartment in 4-5 days.
Myler received their payment directly from SSA...in my particular case, around $2300, which seemed fair to me, as they did all the heavy lifting in the entire application process. Before applying, I had nothing, living in a loaned trailer, offered by son-in-law’s father, who had several vacant trailers in a park right off of interstate 70, and helped us due to the flooding.
In qualifying for SSD, and being recognized as totally permanently disabled (TPD), a couple months later I received a form from my student loan provider. A flurry of activity later, my student loan from my return to college in 2003-2008 was forgiven, in a program that I had no idea existed. Only catch is that for three years, I have to send a statement that shows my income each year, which is really simple.
Bottom line, you just start...in this case with a phone call. Then it’s just problem solving with each new form, filling it out, returning it, and clarifying any issues with your SSD lawyer.
The process was streamlined by Myler, and everything happened much faster than I expected...which helped me through one of the roughest times in my life.
I’d be glad to answer any questions anyone has about applying...it really is this simple.
night driver
ESFP adrift in INTJ sea
Now that yer getting SOME handle on things (and For the record I waited 4 days)
I gotta axe: How long has it been since you were VALID??
Ba--dump--ish. Rimshot!
<G-D-R>
I gotta axe: How long has it been since you were VALID??
Ba--dump--ish. Rimshot!
<G-D-R>
German Democratic Republic?
LOL.
I was going to ask if being semi-invalid was anything like the date stamp they print on the mayo jar.
Tennessee gal
Veteran Member
Praying for you and your dear husband.
Just Plain Mom
Alien Lizard Person
I have taken Metformin for over 20 years, also prescribed prophylactically. I was never given a special diet, nor was one discussed; I have had hormonal problems most of my life, and the doctor who prescribed it said she wanted me to avoid diabetes, which was probably going to happen eventually. I don't think she would have prescribed it "just because." But there is an off-label use for some bodies (and I have one that really sucksProphylactically? To prevent diabetes? (Some drugs are given for off-label use.) And your doctors over the past 20 years kept prescribing it prophylactically?
Ive never heard of this! Can any other nurses or other healthcare professionals chime in here and help me understand this? It seems downright dangerous to me.
). I have never had diabetes, although my fasting INSULIN (not blood glucose) is higher than it should be. I've had so many doctors and nurses argue with me that I have diabetes, and one reported it to my insurance company, who gave me a health coach. My meals are perfect: 1/2 plate salad or other vegetable, 1/4 plate lean protein, 1/4 plate whole grain. She did tell me to eat a snack with protein before bedtime. So, says my PCP, let's taper off the Metformin (thus far, I only take one per day at night, and it hasn't had an effect) and no, you don't have diabetes. *looks back at records* never have. But Husband did until he stopped eating "what I want."
Just Plain Mom
Alien Lizard Person
Dennis, in case you don't get the answers you're seeking at the VA, please look into Ambetter through the Marketplace.
I never thought I'd do that, but when Husband retired quickly last year, I had to. I can't go without insurance. We went to an insurance agent, who put me in a $0 deductible plan with $2850 out of pocket maximum - which I met last year and then some, and will meet this year fairly soon. This includes regular office visits (which are very low) and prescriptions as well.
You tell them how much you estimate you'll make this year, and they determine how much your payment will be per month. We own our house and vehicles and have no debt; there are no other qualifications to meet. My monthly premium is very affordable.
I really like Ambetter. They're the folks who set me up with a health coach and I have only had one issue with finding a doctor (UTSW, where my specialist is, doesn't accept it, so I pay cash). But all of my other doctors do, and I think most of the doctors in your area do, too.
I never thought I'd do that, but when Husband retired quickly last year, I had to. I can't go without insurance. We went to an insurance agent, who put me in a $0 deductible plan with $2850 out of pocket maximum - which I met last year and then some, and will meet this year fairly soon. This includes regular office visits (which are very low) and prescriptions as well.
You tell them how much you estimate you'll make this year, and they determine how much your payment will be per month. We own our house and vehicles and have no debt; there are no other qualifications to meet. My monthly premium is very affordable.
I really like Ambetter. They're the folks who set me up with a health coach and I have only had one issue with finding a doctor (UTSW, where my specialist is, doesn't accept it, so I pay cash). But all of my other doctors do, and I think most of the doctors in your area do, too.
The issue I have with Obamacare is that it’s based on your annual income. My 2020 income was too high, and if I go back to work quickly enough, my 2021 income will also be too high. I don’t want that kind of trouble,
Just Plain Mom
Alien Lizard Person
If you go now, it will be based on your 2021 income, what you expect it to be.
The way it normally works, if you make more, you are charged the difference on your income tax at the end of the year. ]
HOWEVER, for 2020 and 2021, this has been waived. You will receive a 1095-A and have to put it with your taxes, but you won't end up owing a penalty for 2021.
By the end of this year, I hope you would have figured out what is going on, and then you could make an informed decision regarding next year.
Just saying.
