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lumbosacral Head injury in service I just remembered, ironically....
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armyvet89
Hello all you wonderful folks!
I just found some of my service medical records the other day and in it was a LOD from where I suffered a head injury while training. I had (no pun intended) completely forgot about it. I dont feel that there was ever a diagnosis provided but it did knock me out and I was out for quite some time, so I'm told. I dont really remember much after that. I was told that the doc that was seeing me said that I was out for a while ordered bed rest WITHOUT sleep and to follow up the next morning. I did not go to the hospital but I guess she was asking me several questions to which I had inconsistent responses for like what is todays date? President Obama was my response. I still get jabbed about this from my buddies that were there. It took a good day or 2 before I came around to being close to normal. I was also involved in several explosions in iraq (rockets and mortars and a parachute grenade). The parachute grenade hit next to my truck and it knocked my gunner out. We were all pretty stunned. Since all of this I have had some serious issues with MH also headaches/migraines, balance and dizziness problems, tinnitus (SC'ed), blurred vision and a twitch in my left eye that is also documented on the LOD. One of the mortar blasts forced me off the top of the MRAP and I hurt my left knee. When I came back to the states I was put on pain meds most with tylenol in them and when I would complain about headaches it never made its way into my VA records because I was told that its likely do to the high blood pressure and the knee pain. So what I am getting at is that I think I may have covered up some of the headaches with the pain meds I was on and I think this is going to make it look like they arent bad at all when in fact they are. I am not taking the pain meds anymore and this migraine stuff is for the birds. In 2011 I was also diagnosed with PTSD and depression NOS by a VA doc and have continued treatment and medication ever since but last year I was denied PTSD from the RO because my c&p doc was a xxxxxx xxx. The exam doc works for another company on the side where they fight against people going for social security based on MH contentions. I feel like he is completely inadequate at his job and isnt deserving of the position he holds so I wrote the VA and told them about it.
So now I have recently submitted a claim for headaches, migraines, TBI, residuals of TBI and PTSD. I feel like if i can get them to SC me for the TBI that it would help with my PTSD claim. What are your thoughts? How should I approach this? What should I prepare for? Since there was never a diagnosis given for the head injury will the VA not provide a TBI diagnosis?
Not sure if it matters but I am currently connects for left knee 20%, Right knee 10%, Radiculopalthy right side 10%, lumbosacral strain 20% and tinnitus 10% totaling 60%.
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