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100% Ptsd Unemployability

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MArinepoop

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Hi all,

I am A marine Vet who served in 2003 on the ground in Iraq as first invading force.

SO several months ago was awarded 100% PTSD employability with possible future exams to re-avaluate my condition. They tell you so little about what the guidelines are for everything, but am I unable to work at all based on this determination? DO odd jobs and part time count against me now?

Secondly, I was awarded for "PTSD" but I have so many problems including internal bleeding, diarrhea for years, eosinophilic esophagitis (swollen esophpogas) and just many other physical issues I think are related to Iraq.

I don't know if I should take the 100% rating regardless or if I should appeal the claim and try for Gulf war syndrome ratings. I feel lke this is going to end up being a trick where they take all my problems and lump it into a "mental" condition and act like I am imagining all these things and down the road when I am re-evaluated the only diagnosis they will talk about is the mental aspect.

I also got many anthrax shots and I get strange rashes all over. I have been to dermatologists and allergy specialists at the va as well as years of other visits with all these problems documented.

I have never had food allergies n my life before this and the only diagnosis I got was the Eosinophilic Esophogitis, but I know that all these issues are secondary to my tour in Iraq.

Has anyone gotten a rating for these kinds of conditions?

Isit worth me trying to fight for what is right by getting my other issues included in my rating?

If I don't, and you don't will that ultimately be doing us an injustice.. I mean we all have to fight them to document this right?

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Hey,

This is amazing advice but I want to clarify, I have the chance to "appeal" my 100% PTSD rating.. but do I want to appeal the 100% decision, or should I start a new claim for the Gulf War Illness symptoms separate from the appeal of the 100% rating for PTSD?


Also, What is SMC?

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One more question would be what do I expect from this being non permanent right now as far as my rating? How long will I receive benefits and do I handle this like I always need to be ready to go back to work? I could picture a scenario where I am out of work now for years and then all the sudden they take the rating and overnight I am left with no prospects for work or any means of immediate income. I have a family so just wanted to ask if there could be any insight given into how to handle the temp rating.

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Oh my God it feels so good to find this site, honestly. I have had rashes for years and years, they took biopsies on them and still they haven't diagnosed properly, I have constant diarrhea and hemorrhoids that I have had since about 23 years old and I am now 30. I have Eosinophilic Esophagitis, which is a swollen esophagus and for years it was painful when I talked and I had tons of acid reflux. I was a singer and I haven't been able to sing in years.. it feels like there's a lump in my throat all the time..... and holy shit... the anger and abuse on my self and on the people around me... oh my God, I don't know how I have anyone left.

It wasn't until recently when I did some acupuncture consistently am I even able to realize how much pain I have actually been in all these years.. It's like I was so in the pain I didn't know what normal felt like. I was always an artistic kind of non-violent kid, but I joined the marines after 911 because I wanted to be apart of the best and I wanted to come face to face with the "enemy". I was a 17 year old kid and I just wanted to do the best I possibly could and give as much to the world as I could, but in the end you feel like you were lied to sometimes. Sometimes I think honorable intentions can be taken advantage of. Regardless, thank God for you people here spreading the truth.

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You were denied Chapter 35 benefits by being considered non-permanent for PTSD. You could appeal that and gather evidence from your private doctor to show your PTSD is permanent. This is what I did when I was granted TDIU but denied Chapter 35. I appealed the denial and it took a year for the appeal to be done. The VA just looked at my medical records for the last year and concluded I was static. I did have an IMO but the VA really just considered my VA psychiatric records and went with that for a grant of Chapter 35 (P&T). Did you file for all the other conditions you mentioned and were denied., or would these things be new claims for new conditions?

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