I AM NOT OCD

So... in filling out all the lovely paperwork for Social Security Disability I had to list EVERYTHING the doctors have diagnosed me with. In order to do this properly I of course contacted all 5 doctors and requested a list of "issues" because at this point in life my "top five" has grown to ten. I can't remember them all much less EVERYTHING. It became very interesting reading because I didn't even recognize some of the stuff on there. See... if you ignore it, it WILL go away!!

I sent in 13 pages from those sweet doctors (I'm sure it was a nurse or admin that did the paperwork but hey I have my doctors pretty well trained at this point). The most interesting thing is that in all those pages OCD was not mentioned once! There it is official!! Of course I didn't get anything from my therapist but then she isn't a doctor and I've not seen her in 7 years or more so why confuse the issue.

Filling out all this paperwork has been an education. My favorite part is the section in the pain file where they gave me 3 lines to list my pain meds. I laughed so hard I pulled a muscle and had to take a flexeril! 3 lines - seriously?? If that was all I needed I would NOT be applying for disability now would I?! Since I am NOT OCD I decided the best way to deal with this was to call my case worker. That was a fun conversation.

First let me tell y'all I owe the earth a couple trees for this whole thing... So in my world it seems that 18 months of prescriptions from 4 pharmacies requires - drum roll please - 40ish pages of print outs, most both sided. Add to that the 30 plus sheets SSI sent me that were printed on both sides and you begin to picture why I owe the earth a tree or twenty. Thankfully everything is filled out and has been sent in... now its their problem. Oh, and just so y'all know they will be contacting my doctors both down here and in NOVA and requesting transcripts of all my records. Perhaps I should just start planting a new forest somewhere...

How many medications do you take a day for pain Ms. Saenz?
Well... do anti-inflammatories and muscle relaxers count as well as straight pain meds?
Yes ma'am they do.
Do you want just the main meds or the break through meds too?
All of them would be best.
(Me wondering if there is enough paper for this) Well, the thing is we change the mix every 6 months so I don't build a tolerance to either pain med since I am allergic to most of them.
Perhaps you could just send in a list of your prescriptions for the last year.
All of them? For everything??
Yes ma'am.
OK... thank you.

Back to the point of this post. After a careful review of all these pages of paper and medical information OCD was no where to be found. I am very pleased with that. Its the small things in life that make me happy.
Oh and in case you were wondering. My day starts with Naproxen, Baclifin and Darvocet. This coctail is repeated midday and at bedtime (traiding the Naproxen for Meloxicam). For break through pain I can take tramadon, motrin and flexiril. Yup peeps... thats just the pain meds. And y'all wonder why I am the way I am!! LOL

Lets review shall we? SSI needs to be careful what they ask for, I am NOT OCD and I owe y'all a forest. Just another day in my life          8-D