Hi Guys!! I receive SSD. I had not been diagnosed with FMF at the time. My diagnoses were: I was diagnosed by blood tests with rheumatoid arthritis. I had x-rays that showed osteo-arthritis. I suffered with chronic recurrent chemical depression, sleep apnea, sleep disorder with myoclonus, and Restless Leg Syndrome, colitis, spastic colon, gallbladder inflammation, appendicitis, possible kidney stones with their concurrent problems of vomiting and diarrhea, and so many other things that I can't even remember them. I had chronic respiratory problems, chest pains, sinus infections, allergies and asthma. I had even looked into Chronic Fatigue Syndrome as a possible cause of my problems. All of these things didn't happen at once. As a child, I was pretty normal between attacks. Then I received the fibromyalgia diagnoses and lived with that for years. As you can image with all these things, I could quite easily say that I was "not able to reassure my employer that I would be at work everyday and from beginning to end." The last three years I worked I missed abt 30 days each year because of illness. This is really what disability is about. If you can prove that you cannot be at work all day, everyday that you are supposed to be there, then you are disabled. And again, it is my personal opinion that there is no such thing as fibromyalgia. I do not know what causes it, but I suspect that FMF is certainly one of those causes. Because my FMF went un-treated for so long, I may never be totally well again. But I am certainly much improved with colchicine treatment. If only ONE person learns about FMF from what I say and is saved from the torture that I went through, then everything I write about this illness will have been worth it. Nancy S ==== Melungeon Mailing List ==== The Web Spinning Granny has moved; The Melungeon Homepage: http://www.melungeons.org Battles in Red, Black and White Virginia Racial Integrity Law 1924 http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/POCA/POC_law.html