Thursday, April 4, 2024

Long Covid & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

A new study on myalgic encephalitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) from the National Institutes of Health also looked at Long Covid whose conditions are considered “closely related,” the Washington Post reported recently. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/11/long-covid-treatment-research-hope/

The Post said that the research was “the most in-depth and multidisciplinary study of ME/CFS to date, involving more than 75 investigators across 15 NIH institutes and taking nearly eight years to complete.” The manuscript was published in Nature Communications. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45107-3#Sec17

In summarizing the results, the newspaper noted: “[t]he research provided clear evidence of physiological abnormalities in ME/CFS patients. . . . [r]esearchers found functional and not structural abnormalities. . . . [and] investigators discovered significant differences between men and women. . . . in immune cell populations and markers of inflammation.”

The Post said the study “support[s] the hypothesis that ME/CFS is due to persistent immune activation [or] ‘post-infectious syndromes’ . . . .” The same characterization may apply to Long Covid and other conditions.

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RE: Social Security and SSI Disability, see SSR 14-1p: Titles II and XVI: Evaluating Cases Involving Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)

https://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/rulings/di/01/SSR2014-01-di-01.html

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How To Get Social Security Disability & SSI Disability
by Patricia A. Petow was written to help applicants succeed in their claims for disability benefits under Social Security and under SSI.

How To Get Social Security Disability & SSI Disability
focuses on winning strategies. The book provides line-by-line guidance for applicants and their representatives for the major disability application forms. The book also includes templates for applicants to organize their medical and prescription records.

Petow notes that many disabled people have difficulty articulating how their disabilities impact their lives. She recommends that disabled claimants enlist the support of a “personal advocate” as well as an attorney or non-attorney representative.

Petow argues that properly completed Social Security forms can serve as a low cost “day in the life video.”

The paperback edition sells for $5.99, and the Kindle edition sells for $2.99.

Money & Insurance Claims for Injuries & Illnesses: Medical RecordKeeping

My book, Money & Insurance Claims for Injuries & Illnesses: Medical RecordKeeping, is now available at Amazon.com

Money & Insurance Claims for Injuries & Illnesses: Medical RecordKeeping provides a guide for creating a Medical Appointments Book, a Prescription Journal, and a Medical Status Journal. It seeks to respond to three needs of people impaired now, or who may be in the future:

One, it helps to find the words, to describe or explain their symptoms, including pain.

Two, it advocates that people must properly complete “medical” forms and retain copies of completed forms and their own records of their care and treatment.

Three, it recommends that people create medical status diaries to describe their baseline health and/or to record symptoms that may be associated with future illnesses such as Long Covid or fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue syndrome.

This book is a guide to creating a Medical Appointments Book, a Prescription Journal, and a Medical Status Journal.