Disability

Hi Oliv5823! Thank you for starting this forum. While we wait for other community members to join the conversation and share their experiences, I am going to share a couple of links that you may find helpful regarding disability benefits. Hoping this helps!

https://neuromyelitis-optica.net/living/family-medical-leave-act

https://neuromyelitis-optica.net/living/social-security-disability

Best, Alexis (team member)

They rejected me and I appealed. Now they only gave me it for 12 months and said i’d be fine after that so I don’t need it.

Hello!


It took me about 3 months. I did not need a lawyer. They did send me to a special doctor of their choice which was a pain. They originally wanted me to go someone were far out. Funny part is they knew I had signed up due to my vision. But they found a better one and they were very nice and then a few weeks after that I was approved. But it isn’t always that easy. I think with how bad my eyes are, it made it pretty cut and dry. I have yet to get a request for a follow y which they aay does happen.

I was fortunate to have no trouble claiming disability, I think my background as a CNS helped me when writing and articulating myself on paper.

Please let me know how you get on, happy to help if I can