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Odd that I'd never heard of gout until my doctor finally saw the pattern (and my swollen hot foot) and realized it wasn't just foot pain from being overweight or standing on my feet a lot at work or bad shoes.
In, for example, the last 3 months I've had three attacks. For one the work was primarily indoors sitting down and I was able to go because I wore slippers and used a cane. For one it was so bad I basically spent 5 days on my back in and out of a Vicodin stupor (and even at that the pain existed but it was lessened. The third one caused me to cancel all my appts and meetings and stay on my back. What I would have given for a bedpan so I didn't have to hop or crawl to the bathroom.
Does Social Security generally accept gout with it's very sporatic, unpredictable and painful outbreaks a reason to grant disability? Will I have to fight tooth and nail to explain to them? I'd like to know what anyone else knows or has experienced.
What I would have given for a bedpan so I didn't have to hop or crawl to the bathroom.
My technique was to crawl on all fours with the bad foot raised being very careful not to bump the foor on the hall…fortunately the bathroom abuts the bedroom so the hall part was ony a couple feet. It was hard on the knees after 9 days and my first bottle of colchicine.
(I'll bet I screwed up the quote function again.) editL YAAAAY I DID IT RIGHT!
SS will NOT accept gout as qualifying for disability unless you can prove that your joints are damaged to the point of preventing all useful work.
They will, of course, ask “How are you treating it?” Are you taking allopurinol or probenecid?
Gout CAN be crippling…it NEED NOT be and SS knows that.
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