***G* Thank you, I thought I had seen 2 different ones referred to here in
the past. /

** No.  I'm in the wrong country.  The original poster, this thread, was in
U.S.
 Canada's are part of Canada Pension (Disability Pensions). Our's are
different than SSD.  I was only answering with as much as I 'picked up' from
others posting on the group over the years, until one of you came along to
give them correct information wrt U.S.
  In 1981 when it was approved, I got a check back to date the Doctors had
put as Date of Onset, or previous 12 months toward Encephalitis onset
(Organic Brain Syndrome).  That was a long time ago-- my Memory doesn't go
that far, and Recall was Worse than now by factor 100...    G. /

Thanks for the link.  The first post I saw was speaking against
phenobarbital.  One guy said he " would lay down and die b4 i would let
this drug come into my house."

What a stupid way of looking at things.  Yes, I have problems with words,
but at least I can function.  My neurologist (who happened to be the head
of the local Epilepsy Center) tried me on two of the newer medications and
they made me so sick, I felt like I had a very poor quality of life for
about a year.  I had so many side effects it was ridiculous.  Finally,
after a trip to the emergency room to stop my nausea from one of the new
meds, he said he wanted to put me back on phenobarbital, because it worked
for me, and he got it to a therapeutic level.

Yes, it is an old drug, but for some people that is what works for them.  I
don't see any point in posting this to the Yahoo group, I can see they
would just argue, so there you go.

We have your back, Owlvee.

Hope you get your SSI soon. ;-)

Take care,
Julie