Got first denial letter, onto recon.

[moriah]

My main severe impairments are Bipolar Disorder and asthma. I do have fibromyalgia and nerve damage in my wrists/hands along with arthritis or ligament damage in my thumbs. They never developed the record by sending me into specialists for my pain issues, and I can't afford to see them until January.

I was hospitalized three times in a year, twice for asthma and once for suicidal depression. I got out of the hospital on the 14th of this month, and got my denial letter dated the 18th.

It felt like a slap in the face, because everyone at the hospital said they thought I already had it approved or should be when I told them I wasn't. They said I did not equal any of the listings, but I believe the combination of impairments meets or exceeds the asthma listing -- it wants three hospitalizations in a 12 month period. In that 12 months, two were for asthma and one was for depression. In total I've been in inpatient 4 times in 18 months, two for physical and two for mental.

Am I wrong to feel like this is an incorrect denial? I would give up if I could, but I only made $85 so far for November.