Is diabetes a disability in Arizona?
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Diabetes is not a disability. It is a medical condition.\nEasily controlled for most with the proper diet, exercise and the use of oral or injectible medications.\nA diabietic disability would be for the type of diabetic that doesn't control your blood sugar levels, and say goes into kidney failure and needs diaylisis, or goes blind, or has some body part amputated THEN they would qualify for disability.
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I just found a page about this for someone else yesterday:\nPublication No.05-10019\nhttp://www.ssa.gov/pubs/10019.html\n\nhttp://library.findlaw.com/1997/May/1/129867.html\n\nhttp://www.thebody.com/apla/feb00/legal.html\n\nhttp://www.apla.org/\n\nThose should help.\n\nIf I were you I would get a case worker to start. These are available to you in your communtiy free of charge. Contact the AIDS services program in you r community. It is very overwhelming dealing with an illness like HIV. This person can help you alot. They can coordinate appointments, disseminate information to you, help you apply for benefits and keep track of all these things for you. Its alot to have on your plate. They have experience dealing with  these types of things everyday. They generally help you to fill out the paperwork required for the social security disability. If it comes down to it and they deny you hire an attorney to get benefits. I bet the case worker you get probably knows other sources of help available to you as well. Call the United Way (211?in austin anyway) if you cannot locate a case worker program. They should tell you where to find one.\n\nGood luck! And Keep your head up! Feel free to email me if you have a question...
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do you get disability?
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Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 prohibits private employers, state and local governments, employment agencies and labor unions from discriminating against qualified individuals with disabilities in job application procedures, hiring, firing, advancement, compensation, job training, and other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment. The ADA covers employers with 15 or more employees, including state and local governments. It also applies to employment agencies and to labor organizations. The ADA's nondiscrimination standards also apply to federal sector employees under section 501 of the Rehabilitation Act, as amended, and its implementing rules. \n\nAn individual with a disability is a person who:\n\nHas a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities; \nHas a record of such an impairment; or \nIs regarded as having such an impairment. \nA qualified employee or applicant with a disability is an individual who, with or without reasonable accommodation, can perform the essential functions of the job in question. Reasonable accommodation may include, but is not limited to:\n\nMaking existing facilities used by employees readily accessible to and usable by persons with disabilities. \nJob restructuring, modifying work schedules, reassignment to a vacant position; \nAcquiring or modifying equipment or devices, adjusting or modifying examinations, training materials, or policies, and providing qualified readers or interpreters. \nAn employer is required to make a reasonable accommodation to the known disability of a qualified applicant or employee if it would not impose an "undue hardship" on the operation of the employer's business. Undue hardship is defined as an action requiring significant difficulty or expense when considered in light of factors such as an employer's size, financial resources, and the nature and structure of its operation.\n\nAn employer is not required to lower quality or production standards to make an accommodation; nor is an employer obligated to provide personal use items such as glasses or hearing aids.\n\nTitle I of the ADA also covers:\n\nMedical Examinations and Inquiries\nEmployers may not ask job applicants about the existence, nature, or severity of a disability. Applicants may be asked about their ability to perform specific job functions. A job offer may be conditioned on the results of a medical examination, but only if the examination is required for all entering employees in similar jobs. Medical examinations of employees must be job related and consistent with the employer's business needs. \nDrug and Alcohol Abuse\nEmployees and applicants currently engaging in the illegal use of drugs are not covered by the ADA when an employer acts on the basis of such use. Tests for illegal drugs are not subject to the ADA's restrictions on medical examinations. Employers may hold illegal drug users and alcoholics to the same performance standards as other employees. \nIt is also unlawful to retaliate against an individual for opposing employment practices that discriminate based on disability or for filing a discrimination charge, testifying, or participating in any way in an investigation, proceeding, or litigation under the ADA.\n\nYou would report it to the EEOC, but has he talked to the company about this first?  Is there an H.R. person there? Why do they make him sleep at work?
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Check here.\nhttp://ag.ca.gov/consumers/pdf/disabled.pdf\n\nor with these people\nhttp://www.makoa.org/legal.htm
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No, there are no limitations due to a condition such as diabetes. In fact, prospective employers in the US are prohibited from asking you in advance about health issues like this (provided it does not prevent you from doing the actual job you are applying for), and you will be protected legally as far as any special considerations you need for the diabetes (like taking a break to have juice, test your blood, etc). You should state that you have diabetes when you fill out forms when you start your job (at the time the job has been offered and accepted) and tell your employer what your needs are as far as taking care of your health.\n\nGood luck and take care of yourself! The American diet can aggravate diabetes, so don't embrace the fast food, high-calorie lifestyle!
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Go to your doctor asap.\n\nIf your doctor says you are disabled from it you can go to the state and apply for disability income and state insurance to help take care of it and get you back on your feet.  \n\nThyroid disease and diabetes are nothing to play with and HCV can cause cancer and damage in women (not sure about men), but needs to be treated too, or can really hurt you untreated.\n\nThey have medicine for all three, to keep you healthy.  While waiting for your doctor appointment, really try to track everything you eat and do for exercise in a journal, that will help to see what changes you might need to make in your diet & exercise.\n\nIt's going to be a rough road ahead of you, but left untreated you will probably end up suffering a great deal, if not dying early!
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http://www.diabetes.org
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Yes.\n\nDepends on type of diabetic, if it was trigger by over eating sugar and other stuff. \n\nIn that case if the person is lucky, that person has still enough insulin production and the organ is not damaged, due to over work, then just watching the diet, weight and exercising, with other healthy living habits, the person can recover completely. the person must take insulin and monitor blood sugar, then depending on the sugar level under doctors super vision can reduce the insulin slowly, it is possible for that person to go off of insulin. \n\nHowever the person must keep monitoring the sugar level, and keep the insulin supply handy. The person may have to monitor the level, may be not that often but both the instrument and the insulin must be kept on hand.\n\nPS\n\nThis is true of type "A" (Childhood) diabetic.
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My son has it also and I have never heard of such a thing.  Maybe if it is severe and she has to stay home and care for him it could be considered a disability enough for her to get a check like that.  I have been switching meds left and right to find the right ones.  Good luck.\n\nRight now we are on aderall.
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You'll experience some or all of these symptoms if you have type 2 diabetes:\n-frequent infections and cuts and bruises that heal slowly\n-blurred vision\n-tingling or numbness in hands and feet\n-vaginal yeast infections\n-skin, gum, or bladder infections that recur\nSymptoms are often not present in early stages of the disease and you may have the illness for many years before being diagnosed. \n\nDiabetic complications that may occur at the time of diagnosis:\n-numbness, tingling, burning pain or swelling in the feet and hands\n-feeling dizzy or weak when sitting or standing suddenly\n-blurred or distorted vision or seeing flashes of light; seeing large, floating red or black spots; or seeing large areas that look like floating hair, cotton fibers, or spiderwebs\n\nHope that helps!
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Contact your local chapter of JDRF.org\n\nI work with the chapter here in NE florida.  I have been a diabetic for 20 years and started as a child.  You can email me any questions you have.  You can get my email address by clicking on my screename.
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I do not live in Texas, but I think I can give you some general information that will help you and your friend out. \n\nA starting point for securing services at lower charges or for referral to participating organizations is the doctor's office. Talk to your primary care doctor about your situation. He / she can more than likely give you some help on the spot or at least steer you in the right direction of someone who can help you. Ask for free samples of medication. Doctor's offices have these on hand and they are there for the taking if you will just ask. My doctor does this for me and it helps me out by around $300 a month. He / she may not be able to give you all your medications all the time, but every little bit helps. \n\nThe second place to check would be your local health department. Medical services at most state-operated health departments are offered at little or no cost to the patient, based on income. There is probably also a pharmacy assistance program there that can help out with meds. And, as an added bonus, you and your friend could get lots of great (free) information on diabetes. There are health educators and nurses there who specialize in diabetes and their services are usually free, so check it out. \n\nAnother place would be to check with your local social services office. Here you can learn about medical assistance based on your income. They can probably refer you to several other valuable diabetes resources in your area. \n\nI wish you the best of luck with all this and I think it's great that you are asking questions to help your friend. Diabetes can be hard to live with sometimes, so think about checking out a support group if you get a chance. Most hospitals will offer these (usually free) and they are a great resource to utilize. \n\nGood luck and best wishes...
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Even if her blood-sugar is reasonably well controlled, she can still die from complications or be left permanently blind or otherwise disabled. One of my friends lost his sister to a diabetic pregnancy, and she was a very good diabetic.
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Hawaii has a great Disability Studies program at one of the main universities.  Contact them as they would be the most up to date and non biased in their study of the needs of the residents with disabilities in Hawaii.  Potential for a great partnership!!!!!!!!!
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ok..in english diabetes is the inability of cells to use sugar in the blood due to either a lack of insulin (produced by the pancreas) or the inability for a cell to transport sugar across the cell. because your cells cannot use the sugar it stays in limbo between the cells (high blood sugar)until it is filtered out through the kidneys (this causes alot of pressure and can destroy them). the high blood sugar also puts alot of pressure on the eyes that can cause blindness. another effect if left untreated is pariphial neuropathy..a big word for loss of circulation and feeling in the lower extremities (legs) this can lead to sores that cannot heal (because the cells cannot use the sugar for energy) these are things that do not happen all at once but over time. If you do not keep your sugar under control these things WILL happen...PLEASE take this disease seriously...many times the treatment is diet and exercise depending on how much insulin your pancreas does produce..if this does not work you will need to take medicine every day for the rest of your life (which is much better than the consiquences of not treating it ....amputation, blindness, kidney failure, stroke, heart attack, ect...this list continues to grow.
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Have you thought about filing for Social Security Disability?  And then I would also contact you county health and social services department.  They may be able to get you on your state medicaid program.\n\nI have Lupus and APS....it isn't fun.  So far I haven't been in the hospital this year.  First time in a long time.