I have been getting SSDI since mid-2003 and I think I was diagnosed with Aids about 1999. The thing it is get very hard to get it now because of how much longer can live with this handicap. But you have remember that no matter what they won't start paying you till have not been able to work at all for the past 6 months. I got a blood clot in my leg and my doctor after 3 months would not give a wild guess on when he would let me go back work, so just for the hell it applied for it figuring I would get turned down.
I had many friends try to get it and waited 3 months to be turn down and have to get layers to fight for it. They all after 9 months to a year did get it with back pay and I was 100% sure I wouldn't get it (I sorta didn't want it any how I was grossing around $1000 a week and SSDI was going to pay me almost half that) Well 45 days after I gave them my paper work i got a call saying that I was approved and I could not believe all my a friends had to fight for theirs and didn't. They all could not believe i had no problems plus to make things worse was once they knew how much I was going to get a month I'm lucky they didn't kill me. I got twice the amount they did.
