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Dropsy and Receiving Social Security Disability Benefits

Monday, November 14th, 2011

Dropsy is swelling that takes place as a result of fluid becoming trapped in the tissues of your body. Dropsy refers to large amounts of fluid that are retained in your circulatory system or the spaces between the cells of your body.

In most cases, dropsy takes place in your feet, legs and ankles. However, dropsy may also develop in other areas of your body, such as your face and hands.

It is important to understand that dropsy is not a disease or a disorder. Dropsy is a sign or symptom of an underlying problem that is causing it. In fact, dropsy may be the primary sign or symptom of the underlying difficulty that is responsible for it. If dropsy is chronic (long-term, ongoing) and widespread, it may be a sign of a serious underlying medical problem.

Dropsy is an older term that is used for swelling in your soft tissues. This condition is also known by other names. It is referred to as fluid retention, edema, swollen legs, hydropsy and swelling.

Dropsy is a condition that can take place in anyone at any time. However, dropsy occurs most of the time in women who are pregnant and older adults.

Dropsy is a result of tiny blood vessels (capillaries) in your body leaking fluid. This fluid leakage may be caused by damage to or increased pressure in your capillaries. This leakage may also be the result of lowered levels of serum albumin. Serum albumin is one of the proteins in your blood. The fluid that leaks from your capillaries gets into your surrounding tissue. When this happens, the tissue begins to swell.

As mentioned earlier, dropsy is a sign or symptom of an underlying problem that causes your capillaries to start leaking. There are several things that can do this. Some of these include:

  • Congestive heart failure
  • Medications, such as corticosteroids, calcium channel blockers and NSAIDs
  • Brain tumors or head trauma
  • Pregnancy
  • Nephrotic syndrome
  • Cirrhosis of the liver
  • Allergic reactions
  • Critical illness, such as life-threatening infections or burns
  • Obstruction of the flow of liquid from a body part

Even though dropsy is a sign or symptom of an underlying problem, there are also signs and symptoms that may be an indication of dropsy. Some of these are:

  • Stretched or shiny skin
  • Swelling or puffiness of the tissue that is located under your skin (subcutaneous tissue)
  • An increase in the size of your abdomen
  • Your skin continuing to keep a dimple even after it has been pressed for several seconds.
  • Indications of dropsy in your lungs include:
  • Shortness of breath
  • Chest pain
  • Having trouble breathing

If you are experiencing dropsy, the underlying difficulty that is responsible for it may make you eligible to receive social security disability benefits like SSDI or SSI. A good decision would be to turn to one of the social security disability lawyers at disabilitycasereview.com. The social security attorneys at disabilitycasereview.com will help you explore your options in regard to disability benefits.

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Primary Biliary Cirrhosis and Receiving Social Security Disability

Monday, September 27th, 2010
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Your liver is the largest glandular organ in your body. It is located on the right side of your abdominal cavity beneath your diaphragm.

Your liver does many things. It produces urea (the main substance of urine), makes certain amino acids (building blocks of protein), filters harmful substances from your blood, breaks down fats, converts glucose to glycogen, stores minerals and vitamins and maintains the right level of glucose in your blood.

Your bile ducts are tubes inside of your liver that are used to transport bile. Bile is a substance that is produced in your liver. It is essential to the proper digestion of fats. Bile also helps your body to eliminate worn-out red blood cells, toxins and cholesterol.

Primary biliary cirrhosis is a chronic (ongoing, continuing) disease that causes your bile ducts inside of your liver to become damaged, irritated and inflamed (swollen). This blocks the flow of bile and damages cells in your liver. The bile ducts in your liver are slowly destroyed. The result is that harmful substances can build up inside of your liver and result in cirrhosis (irreversible scarring of your liver).

Primary biliary cirrhosis is much more common in women than men. In fact, more than 90% of the people with this disease are women. It is most prevalent in middle-aged people between the ages of 35 and 60, although children and older adults can get primary biliary cirrhosis.

Some people do not experience any signs and symptoms for years after they have been diagnosed with primary biliary cirrhosis. Other people have signs and symptoms near the beginning of this chronic disease. Some of the signs and symptoms that you may experience are:

  • Sicca syndrome (dry mouth and eyes)
  • Blotchy, darker skin (hyperpigmentation)
  • Itching
  • Edema (swollen feet)
  • Jaundice (yellowing of your skin and the whites of your eyes)
  • Fatigue
  • Xanthomas (cholesterol deposits)
  • Ascites (swollen abdomen)
  • Digestive problems like steatorrhea (foul-smelling, greasy stools) and diarrhea
  • Fatty deposits under your skin
  • Abdominal pain
  • An enlarged liver.

You or your loved one may be suffering from primary biliary cirrhosis. This disease and/or complications resulting from it may be why you are disabled and cannot work. It may be why you need help.

Do you or your loved one plan on applying for financial assistance from the Social Security Administration by applying for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits because of the disability caused by primary biliary cirrhosis and/or complications resulting from this disease? Have you or your loved one already tried this and been denied?

If you or your loved one is thinking about appealing the denial by the Social Security Administration, think about this. People who are represented by a disability attorney like the one you will find at Social Security Home are approved more often than people who do not have a disability lawyer.

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Cirrhosis and Receiving Social Security Disability Benefits

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Cirrhosis is a consequence of chronic liver disease. It is characterized by replacement of liver tissue with regenerative nodules, as well as fibrotic scar tissue. This leads to progressive loss of your liver function.

This scarring damage to your liver is irreversible.  Blood flow is affected as scar tissue replaces normal tissue making it more and more difficult for your liver to carry out its essential functions, such as purifying your blood, detoxifying harmful substances and manufacturing vital nutrients.

Cirrhosis in its early stages may not cause any effects. You may begin to experience signs and symptoms as the disease progresses. Some of the signs and symptoms that you might experience are:

  • Weakness
  • Fatigue
  • Loss of appetite
  • Weight loss
  • Fluid in your abdominal cavity
  • Loss of interest in sex
  • Nausea
  • Small, red spider veins under your skin or easy bruising
  • Yellowing of your skin and eyes, and dark, cola-colored urine
  • Itching on your feet and hands, and eventually your entire body
  • Swelling of your feet and legs from retained fluid
  • Bleeding from engorged veins in your esophagus or intestines
  • Mental confusion.

Many people think cirrhosis is the result of drinking too much alcohol. While it is true that alcohol is the leading cause of cirrhosis in America, there are several other causes also. Some of the other causes of cirrhosis are:

  • Inherited diseases disease (nonalcoholic steatohepatitis)
  • Prolonged exposure to toxic materials.
  • Autoimmune hepatitis
  • Chronic hepatitis B and C
  • Blocked or inflamed bile ducts
  • Nonalcoholic fatty liver.

You or a loved one may be incapacitated because of cirrhosis and/or complications caused by this disease. It may be the reason you are disabled

If this is true, you may need help. You may need financial assistance.

Have you or your loved one thought about applying for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits from the Social Security Administration because of the disability caused by cirrhosis and/or complications resulting from it? Have you or your loved one already done this and been denied?

You may be wondering what to do next? What options do you have? Do you have any recourse?

One step that you or your loved one can take is to appeal the denial by the Social Security Administration. If you decide to do this, here is something for you to think about.

You or your loved one is going to need the assistance of a disability lawyer like the one you will find at disabilitycasereview.com to represent you in what can be a long and arduous process. The reason this is true is because people who have a disability attorney representing them are approved more often than those people who do not have a lawyer representing them.

Do not hesitate. This may affect you or your loved one for the rest of your life. Contact the disability attorney at disabilitycasereview.com, today.

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Cystic Fibrosis and Receiving Social Security Disability

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
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Did you know that cystic fibrosis (CF) is sometimes called “65 roses”? This life threatening disease got its nickname from a little boy who overheard his mother talking on the phone about this condition. Every time he heard his mother say, “cystic fibrosis,” he thought she was talking about 65 roses.

Cystic fibrosis is an inherited disease of the mucous and sweat glands. It affects mainly your lungs, pancreas, intestines, liver, sex organs and sinuses. Cystic fibrosis affects the cells that make mucous, sweat, saliva and digestive juices.

These secretions are usually slippery and thin. If you have cystic fibrosis, however, these secretions become sticky and thick. The secretions stop up ducts, passageways and tubes, especially in your pancreas and lungs. The most dangerous result of cystic fibrosis is respiratory failure.

It is estimated that about 30,000 people have cystic fibrosis in America, and about 70,000 worldwide. About 1,000 new cases of cystic fibrosis are diagnosed every year.

More than 70% of the patients are diagnosed by age 2. More than 40% of the people with cystic fibrosis are 18 or older. The median age of survival for people with cystic fibrosis in 2006 was 37.

There are a variety of ways that cystic fibrosis may affect you. These signs and symptoms may be different depending on your age.

With infants the first sign of cystic fibrosis may be a blockage of their intestines. Other indications in newborns are:

  • Frequent lung infections
  • Extremely salty-tasting skin
  • Wheezing or shortness of breath
  • Persistent coughing, at times with phlegm
  • Frequent bulky, greasy stools or difficulty with bowel movements
  • Poor weight/growth gain in spite of good appetite
  • Abdominal swelling
  • Vomiting
  • Dehydration.

In children and young adults some of the signs and symptoms are:

  • Foul-smelling, greasy stools
  • Blockage in the bowels
  • A salty taste to the skin
  • Thick sputum
  • Delayed growth
  • Frequent sinus and chest infections with recurring bronchitis or pneumonia
  • Rounding or enlargement of the toes and fingertips
  • Protrusion of part of the rectum through the anus.

Cystic fibrosis can also involve cirrhosis of the liver, displacement of one part of your intestine into another part of the intestine and growths in your nasal passages.

Is cystic fibrosis preventing you from working? Is this disorder the cause of your disability?

Have you applied for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits from the Social Security Administration because of the disability caused by cystic fibrosis? Were you denied?

If you are thinking about appealing the denial by the Social Security Administration, you will need a disability lawyer like the one at disabilitycasereview.com to assist you in this process. This is true because people who are represented by a disability attorney are approved more often than those people who do not have a lawyer.

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Chronic Liver Disease and Receiving Social Security Disability

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Chronic liver disease is an umbrella term that can refer to any one of a number of liver diseases. These liver diseases are slow progressing. They usually continue for a long period of time.

The result of chronic liver disease is a progressive destruction of your liver. There is also a regeneration of your liver parenchyma that leads to fibrosis and cirrhosis. This destruction of your liver will probably take place over a period of several years.

There is an extensive list of liver diseases that fall under the heading of chronic liver disease. Some of these include:

  • Cirrhosis
  • Alcoholic liver disease
  • Hepatitis B and C
  • Liver cancer
  • Epstein Barr Virus
  • Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
  • Primary sclerosing cholangitis
  • Wilson’s disease

The signs and symptoms of chronic liver disease do not usually appear until the disease has progressed for a while. Then you may begin to be affected by several signs and symptoms. Some of these are:

  • Loss of appetite
  • Fatigue
  • Nausea
  • Dry mouth
  • Jaundice
  • Mental confusion
  • Excessive thirst
  • Abdominal pain and tenderness.

The effects of chronic liver disease can reach a stage where they are debilitating. In fact, you or a loved one may be at a point, right now, where you cannot work. Chronic liver disease and/or complications caused by or associated with it may be the reason for you or your loved one’s disability.

If this is true, you or your loved one may need help. You may need financial assistance.

Who will you turn to for the financial help that you need? Where will it come from? Who can and will help you?

Have you or your loved one thought about applying for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits from the Social Security Administration because of the disability caused by chronic liver disease and/or complications caused by or associated with this condition? Have you or your loved one already done this and been denied by the Social Security Administration?

You or your loved one may be wondering what to do next? Do you have any recourse? What options are open to you?

One option that you or your loved one have open to you is to appeal the denial by the Social Security Administration. If you decide to do this, here is something important for you to think about.

You or your loved one is going to need a qualified disability lawyer like the one you will find at disabilitycasereview.com to represent and advise you in what can prove to be a long and exasperating process. The reason for this being true is because people who have a proven disability attorney on their side are approved more often than those people who do not have a lawyer.

Do not delay. This could affect you or your loved one for the rest of your life. Contact the reliable disability attorney at disabilitycasereview.com, today.

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