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Re:Rising ill-health and economic inactivity from long-term ... by thumbuddy on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @06:08AM (#37060610)
Lemme put it this way. It highly resembles fibromyalgia. Most doctors in America won't recognize fibromyalgia because in a lot of cases there is no treatment and there is no way in hell industry is going to adapt to having sick people in it, nor is disability going to recognize it. Even if they did recognize it the US disability system is a lot closer to eugenics then it is a social service.

Stay safe out there. We have to work together to help each other out on this one and related matters.

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Re:Rising ill-health and economic inactivity from long-term ... by jstarfish on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @03:21PM (#37067283)
> nor is disability going to recognize it

You can still get it by taking any resultant symptom and exaggerating the hell out of it. Most of those qualify on their own right if bad enough.

I know someone who claims to have Crohn's and fibro and collects disability, but his credibility is extremely suspect.

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Re:Rising ill-health and economic inactivity from long-term ... by thumbuddy on Thursday August 10, 2023 @06:20AM (#37074183)
It's a pretty dumb life move to collect disability if you don't need it. I mean, you are condemning yourself to poverty and being one bad thing away from death.

Crohns is diagnosed via a biopsy iirc, it's not a diagnosis of exclusion like IBS is. Crohns is also horrific. so I wonder if you just view your friends poor health as a typical "no one wants to work anymore" way like most people do with disabled people. Fibromyalgia is somewhat a diagnosis of exclusion, but decent doctors can mostly figure it out these days. The hard thing is discerning whether it's ME CFS or not.

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