When you do file for SSD include EVERYTHING that ails you, no matter how insignificant it might be....as long as you have had the condition for a year, or it is expected to last at least a year.
That's right. When my back let go I was working as a forklift mechanic. No possible way I could do that again cause there was a lot of heavy lifting and bending over. I had disability insurance through work that I had no problem getting ok'd but they required me to sing up on SS disability and SS denied me twice until I got a lawyer and he noticed on my doctors report it said how I was having 4-5 migraines per month and at the hearing he had me tell them about the migraines. I never thought about mentioning it cause I figured they were just headaches so it wouldn't matter. I was wrong. Even though I had 5 discs trashed in my back and couldn't lift over 30 lbs. or bend over much anymore I would have probably still been denied but telling them about the migraines made it go right through.