[jstarfish]

> nor is disability going to recognize it

You can still get it by taking any resultant symptom and exaggerating the hell out of it. Most of those qualify on their own right if bad enough.

I know someone who claims to have Crohn's and fibro and collects disability, but his credibility is extremely suspect.

[thumbuddy]

It's a pretty dumb life move to collect disability if you don't need it. I mean, you are condemning yourself to poverty and being one bad thing away from death.

Crohns is diagnosed via a biopsy iirc, it's not a diagnosis of exclusion like IBS is. Crohns is also horrific. so I wonder if you just view your friends poor health as a typical "no one wants to work anymore" way like most people do with disabled people. Fibromyalgia is somewhat a diagnosis of exclusion, but decent doctors can mostly figure it out these days. The hard thing is discerning whether it's ME CFS or not.