u/CapitalDog715

For anyone who wants an update of possible FERS timelines. I day possible because things change regularly in the government.

I submitted my request for disbursement in November 2025. Apparently they didn't like that my signatures were not "WET". I had to get my ex husband's signature and he was in another state so he sent me the document scanned by email. They didn't like this but I didn't find out until February 2026 after I called 20 times to get an update. I actually also got a letter a week after I got my updated request answered over the phone. I re-submitted that same week in February. Just got it on 04/21/2026.. Here is the summary.

Submitted November 2025

Reviewed and corrections requested February 2026

Corrections made and resent February 2026

Disbursement completed 04/21/2026

Hope this helps anyone requesting theirs.

The more I read About my symptoms the more I think they are long COVID. It just baffles me that I had COVID twice , 2019 and 2020, and that last year 2025 was when these symptoms started.

I have had symptoms for almost a year now.

I initially thought it was allergies because it coincided with my move. I moved from the NorthEast to Texas, and I had mild allergies before. Once I started logging my symptoms., nothing.made sense. No pattern, no immediate triggers. I was living in the ER and urgent care for th first 5 months of these until I found the SFN forum and I started doing stuff at home. I haven't seen a specialist because as I am new here I had to establish care , and I have had the biggest challenges with that. So here I am 10 months into this waiting to see a neurologist at the end of the month and a rheumatologist maybe in 3 months. So in the meantime I need all holistic advice I can get.

My primary did prescribe Gabapentin which is not doing much. I am on 900 daily.

Feels like:

“Pins and needles”

“Burning under the skin”

“Stabbing/electric sensations”

The symptoms are patchy and migratory. They may start in my neck , it gets better and moves to my arm etc. it has been mostly only from my knees up.. nothing below knees.

Definitely the desperation of the pain without relief makes me extremely anxious which makes it worst so any medication that knocks me out, helps. But I work, luckily from home or I would have been fired already, I can't be sleeping all day and the catching up with work at night. Last night I had a flare in my arm and neck and the pain made me cry. It is like of someone had a lighter on my arm. Some days I just feel like I want to peel my skin off. It's happening more often than before and I don't know what to do in the meantime that helps me during intense flare without being knocked out or completely disable from doing anything.