Medusa wrote:
> Ilena;
>
>> Bravo Lourdes.
>> May you and all those in these groups be protected by the Quackwatch
>> Propaganda Team who spreads disinfo about mulitiple chemical
>> sensitivity.
>>
>> Stephen Barrett, never even board certified himself, ridicules it by
>> calling it a 'fad diagnosis.'
>
> He is a well-known jerk and ****ll for the chemical industry.
>
>> The patients get blamed, as well as everything but the chemicals.
>>
>> Many women from our international breast implant sup****t group suffer
>> from MCS, and I am thrilled when voices of reason like Ms Salvador's
>> drown out the chemical industry noise and denials.
>>
>> http://breastimplantawareness.blogspot.comhttp://ilenarose.blogspot.com
>> Health Lover
>>
>>
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=3...
>> Lourdes Salvador
>> September 3, 2007
>
> <snip excellent article>
>
> I have been told by someone who works with Social Security that MCS is
> now recognized as a disability, but good luck getting SS Disability
> payments for it. :(((
You are correct. Their criteria are:
12.07 Somatoform disorders: Physical symptoms for which there are no
demonstrable organic findings or known physiological mechanisms.
The required level of severity for these disorders is met when the
requirements in both A and B are satisfied.
A. Medically do***ented by evidence of one of the following:
1. A history of multiple physical symptoms of several years duration,
beginning before age 30, that have caused the individual to take
medicine frequently, see a physician often and alter life patterns
significantly; or
2. Persistent nonorganic disturbance of one of the following:
a. Vision, or
b. Speech; or
c. Hearing; or
d. Use of a limb; or
e. Movement and its control (e.g., coordination disturbance, psychogenic
seizures, akinesia, dyskinesia; or
f. Sensation (e.g., diminished or heightened).
3. Unrealistic interpretation of physical signs or sensations associated
with the preoccupation or belief that one has a serious disease or injury;
AND
B. Resulting in at least two of the following:
1. Marked restriction of activities of daily living; or
2. Marked difficulties in maintaining social functioning; or
3. Marked difficulties in maintaining concentration, persistence, or
pace; or
4. Repeated episodes of decompensation, each of extended duration.
Note that this is under Somatoform disorders under the psychiatric
criteria.
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