it's been a while since i posted last...think it is time that i need to go out on STD...

i have not posted in a while, i was just trying to deal with all my medical issues including crohn's.  as far as crohn's, i was referred to a hematologist who said that while i was not the worst iron deficient anemia patient she had seen I was close. I am on blood thinners for arrythemia and left ventricular hypertrophy, but she sai the blood thinners were not contrinuting to by iron issue.  she said i had an aborbsion issue. so i had an iron infusion last week, and started monthly b-12 shots. she teste my iron levels in 3  ore weeks and will decide next steps. i still feel  extremely fatigued. had had some blood back in the stool-next remicade treatment is in 2 weeks.  the GI wants to start methotrexate weekly shots to help the remicade.  So while all of this is going on, I have fixed a spread sheet of my health issues.  in 2011 alone, i have been to a dr or had a separate lab visit or a treatment/test/procedure 56 times!!!

I am so run down, i do not think i can do my job without making a mistake,  Plus I know i am not as sharp as i was 12 months ago.  BTW, i found out  a month a go that i have a small benign brain tomur that they will look at a gian in 5 months.  if it is growing, they will remove it.

So, last year i went out of work for 8 weeks to get my strenght back.  I feel like I need to do it again, but I might need longer. 

Have any of you been in and out of work on STD?  how many are on long term? was it hard to go out on long term? 

If you cannot perform the duties of your job, you'll qualify as that's the very definition. Currently I'm out on long, Lon term disability..not phase one longterm but the other one. Are you having bathroom problems? Focus on the urgency, pain, frequency, and other symptoms like joint pain.

Ps they love real info like test results better than doc saying youre screwed.. Submit any test results that chronicle disease. Good luck!