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the 2018 hearing was going to be a re evaluation

hey, thanks a lot for the input.. very cool... gastone... i like you brother. anyway, I got 100% with a hearing coming in 2018. I thought I couldnt work for the past couple years lol, but i been getting 3k a month tax free. I was a lot more unmanaged back then.. even tho my symptoms are still bad with all my issues, now i have been dealing with them a many years and I am at least functioning dysfunctional. I went to the hearing, the DRO was awesome. So was DAV. They are both helping me. The DRO is re_evauluating my PTSD now instead of 2018 and looking to make it P&T for me now instead of making me wait. He also ordered a new gulf war syndrome exam and he is pushing it into my favor to get the docs right for me. He believes my case and what I'm saying but hes helping me do it the right way he also took GERD and created it as an independent claim right there. I got a little emotional in the meeting bc these issues have really affected my life on the daily basis. I had my kid and wife there and they got to comment. The DRO also told me, I can pretty much work what I want. I thought I couldn't, but actually I can. So this is just amazing Things were looking sort of down there for a while.. It's been looking up, but I always come here first to ask questions. Thank you Berta, You've helped me before. I plan on getting a job with the DAV after I volunteer a few times. I talked to them today about it, and I paid their membership to join.

its a DRO officer

Hi, my goal is 100% with this additional claim making me eligable to work. right now im unemployable. I copied this part out of the link you sent me "Examples include irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), functional dyspepsia, and functional abdominal pain syndrome" ist that what you mean about how to claim it so I dont make that mistake you were talking about? I will look for my denial. What sorts of things should I bring to the hearing?

HI, I have Gulf War Syndrome. I filed a claim with lots of medical evidence for many years of my GI issues since Iraq. I have Eosinophilic Esophogitis, Acid reflux, swelling in my throat and lower digestive track, hemroids, stomach pain... just all the issues. I need to convince them tomorrow that I have these issues and that these are connected to Iraq. What are some of the things I can do that have worked for other people in the past? This is something I believe without a doubt is a direct cause of being infantry in Iraq. I have to get this on my claim, please help I am represented by the DAV, I should have a rep from them lawyering for me, but i still need to do something to prepare.. any help is apprecciated

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.

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.

I have like 10 new food allergies I never had before as well. I never had food allergies before and I was tested as a child. Is that something I should put down? Or should I just put down EVERYTHING?

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?

This would be new claim

I Am a USMC radio operator. I have 100% rating IU which is temporary obviously. They gave me 100% on PTSD. I have been struggling with not only the PTSD but really bad swollen esophagus and IBS issues for years. I also developed 15 new food allergies I never had before. I never put the IBS together with the PTSD in my claim and it wasn't until I came here that I realized that all my GI issues were from Iraq. I just got my 100% up from 50% within 6 months-8 months. Should I appeal my claim and add in the IBS issues now? Being that I never claimed them before and I have years of medical documentation It seems like I am deserving of the 30% rating for that. Is it worth rocking the boat to try and get a better defined rating including all my issues? If I don't claim them now and wait to claim my ibs in the case that they try to reduce my rating would that work out for me? Should I apply for Permanent and total disability now? I also heard that it is better to let sleeping dogs lie, bc they can decide to lower my claim if they don't want to give P&T. I am 30 years old, some said my age would work against me for P&T. What should I do?

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?

If I am 100% temp for PTSD and I also have several gulf war syndrome related problems how can I get my rating to reflect all those things? Or is it jus best to leave it at PTSD for now? it says I have a year to appeal my decision I don't want to rock the boat on the 100% I am now getting, but I also want my disabilities to be correctly recorded for now and future when maybe they say they want to take it back bc it was all just PTSD.