In 2007, I went to the VA because I was having back pain.
A thoracic MRI was ordered.
Two different VA doctors said they reviewed my MRI and that it was normal.
Kept working in construction and kept complaining to the VA about back pain.
They sent me to another VA doctor that said I had a small fatty cell lipoma in my right scapular area.of my back.
I asked him if this was causing the pain and he said that they are usually painless.
I was hurting all of the time and called them(VA) and said I'm tired of the back pain and I want the thing cut out.
I was getting nowhere with them so I started taking OTC meds for chronic pain,
Three years roll by and I'm still valiantly trying to keep up doing my construction job in agony.
Stepped in a pot hole on a job site, twisted my kneed badly, and ripped my right meniscus on my knee and had a MCL sprain.
Knee never healed back right so I was unable to return to my former job involving heavy manual labor..
I decided I needed to file for SSDI.
Gathered my VA records and records from private docs for SSDI.
Got a copy of my MRI from 2007 on my back and the radiologist reported multiple herniated discs abutting my spinal cord in my thoracic spine.
All of my suffering and chronic pain complaints and not one VA doctor read my radiology report.
This is a clear case of medical negligence.
My spine is a total wreck now, Got a consult in two weeks with an ortho spine surgeon.
I currently think I have about nine herniated discs, and some are causing marked spinal cord compression, and many neurological abnormalities, scoliosis, loss of cervical lordosis from all the muscle spasms, numbness in my extremities, and more.
Thanks to VA doctors I kept doing heavy lifting at work. believing their diagnosis until it was too late for my spine.
This line of work accelerated the progression of my IVDS.
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63Charlie
In 2007, I went to the VA because I was having back pain.
A thoracic MRI was ordered.
Two different VA doctors said they reviewed my MRI and that it was normal.
Kept working in construction and kept complaining to the VA about back pain.
They sent me to another VA doctor that said I had a small fatty cell lipoma in my right scapular area.of my back.
I asked him if this was causing the pain and he said that they are usually painless.
I was hurting all of the time and called them(VA) and said I'm tired of the back pain and I want the thing cut out.
I was getting nowhere with them so I started taking OTC meds for chronic pain,
Three years roll by and I'm still valiantly trying to keep up doing my construction job in agony.
Stepped in a pot hole on a job site, twisted my kneed badly, and ripped my right meniscus on my knee and had a MCL sprain.
Knee never healed back right so I was unable to return to my former job involving heavy manual labor..
I decided I needed to file for SSDI.
Gathered my VA records and records from private docs for SSDI.
Got a copy of my MRI from 2007 on my back and the radiologist reported multiple herniated discs abutting my spinal cord in my thoracic spine.
All of my suffering and chronic pain complaints and not one VA doctor read my radiology report.
This is a clear case of medical negligence.
My spine is a total wreck now, Got a consult in two weeks with an ortho spine surgeon.
I currently think I have about nine herniated discs, and some are causing marked spinal cord compression, and many neurological abnormalities, scoliosis, loss of cervical lordosis from all the muscle spasms, numbness in my extremities, and more.
Thanks to VA doctors I kept doing heavy lifting at work. believing their diagnosis until it was too late for my spine.
This line of work accelerated the progression of my IVDS.
It's too late.
I'm screwed for the rest of my pain-ridden life.
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Would this surgeon be willing to prepare an IMO/IME for you, following the IMO criteria here at hadit? If not you could consider contacting Dr. Craig Bash Bethesda, whose contact number (and many
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They count on us to become too disabled and too frustrated to deal with them. The very system you men and women created due to your service , insuring them nice pay checks , has become a National
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63Charlie, I feel your pain, literally. I fell down a flight of stairs during boot camp, 23.5 years ago. The VA's own radiology lab found degenerative disc disease at several locations in 1997.
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