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i have been filing for exposure to dioxin (not agent orange) for about 9 nine years because i never set foot in a listed ares. i was exposed to dioxin during a ship board fire. pcdd dioxin is a break-down product of pcbs heated to 500 to 900 degrees and was always denied. under the Pact Act I am now covered for agent orange exposure because i was feet on the ground at both johnson atoll and Guam. Because i filed before as for exposure to PCDD dioxin as a shipboard fire by product can i now claim this as a Nehmer case now i can prove exposure to agent orange. Or because i claimed exposure to a differant type dioxin with a differant cause does this negate Nehmer.

yes, i was taking jardiance from the VA. luckly i am an retired EMT and knew i had a major problem and rushed to the VA ER. strangely, i also don't remember anything from getting to the VA parking lot till 2 days later. All i remember was getting to the parking lot and i could not get out of my car and flagging down someone in scrubs and reading on her badge that she was a MD. I got off better than you and only have a scar from my perineum up to my right hip area missing the important parts. I still notice that the adds for Jardiance still call this a skin infection of the perineum and makes no reference to fouriers gangrene.

i have been trying to get for Agent Orange for years. now under the pact act i may have a good chance. in 2020 i had Fournier's gangrene.i am getting ready to file a new claim under the pact act as the ship i was on stopped at both Guam and Johnson atoll twice. Do i file for the Fournier gangrene as secondary to diabetes mellitus,

I have had both Sarcoidosis and Castleman. I know i was exposed to polychlorinated dibenzo-para-dioxins (PCDDs) and PCBs during a ship board fire but not agent orange. my problem is finding a doctor that will back my claim as i have no money for the doctor. also on your list there is fibromyalgia. if you have a autoimmune disease its less likely you have fibromyalgia but you have small fiber polyneuropathy.(SFPN) same symptoms same medications that treat both. but new research is showing that small fiber polyneuropathy mimics fibro and the old list of lab test that excluded other disorders when DXing fibro did not included a test for SFPN. http://www.painresearchforum.org/news/33529-multiple-studies-one-conclusion-some-fibromyalgia-patients-show-peripheral-nerve http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4348533/

"Remember that Fibromyalgia is a diagnosis of exclusion. Lots of symptoms, but no exact cause. Diagnosis fibro." Research is showing that as many as 45% of people DXed with fibro really have small fiber polyneuropathy. You need to be tested for small fiber polyneuropathy. If you have small fiber polyneuropathy you will be treated better as its a disorder tht can be proved. Many doctors do not really believe in fibro even VA doctors. And none of the test done by the VA to DX fibro will show small fiber polyneuropathy. There are only two main test for SFPN. One is a skin punch test. And the other a simple eye test know as corneal confocal microscopy, http://www.technologythejournal.com/news/breaking-news-04.pdf

i see the problem as not being the IMO but proving that the burning of cables containing PCBs create dioxin/Polychlorinated dibenzodioxins and PCBs in the smoke. in fact a doctor would have no knowlage of fire by products. This is a well know fact in research into fire byproducts. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1568554/ Once i can prove that the fire caused the release of dioxin/Polychlorinated dibenzodioxins and PCBs and being on the boat during the fire exposed me to them. Then presumptive diseases associated would cover proving that my health problems were caused by the non agent orange dioxin exposure. The only place i was that had agent orange was two stops at Johnston Island in 1973 to fill our ships fresh water tanks and refuel.

On March 17, 1973, during Operation Endsweep Haiphong harbor North Vietnam the minesweep I was on(USS Enhance) suffered a major engine room fire. This was our main generator room and the fire burned most of the wireing in the engine room to a crisp. almost everyone on board took in some smoke from this fire. and i was a electrician and spent months working in the burned out engine room during the rebuilding process. Some of this wireing dated back to when the ship was built (October 1952)and would have had PCB containing in the insulation on the electrical cables. from the research i have done these cables would have released large ammounts of dioxin/Polychlorinated dibenzodioxins as they burned. Since 2002 in have had two rare autoimmune disorders Castleman's disease and Sarcoidosis.and plus a heart attack and diabetes from what i have found all could be linked to dioxin/Polychlorinated dibenzodioxins exposure years ago. Sarcoidosis is classed as a Occupational Disease among firefighters. And they would have been exposed to burning PCB containing wiring in older buildings. Now how do i file for service connection to dioxin/Polychlorinated dibenzodioxins exposure not linked to agent orange.

I know some one that is getting a VA pension plus 10% SC and treatment from the VA.(100% disabled) Because he is under 65 and he was looking at the ACA(calif obamacare program.) he wonders what effect it would have if he signed up for MediCal (calif.)also.

if you own guns be careful about using pot and/or telling anyone from the VA that you own guns. states may allow medical pot use but the feds will use it against you if they can. i know of at least one case where someone was tested for drugs without being told or ask if he was taking pain meds. he failed as he was taking vicodin from a non VA dentist. Without asking the vicodin and if it was prescribed the VA put on his medical records that he was a drug abuser. it took him years to get the drug abuser label removed. Other doctors have seen pain meds on veterans records and without any reason have stopped the meds and labeled the veterans drug users and left the veterans in a lot of pain for no reason. some doctors have even labeled smokers as having a addictive disorder and they have had a lot of problems later getting pain meds they needed. I have fibromyalgia, small fiber neuropathy, and neurosarcoidosis, Before i got these disorders DXed some VA doctor listed on my medical records that i was a drug seeker just because i wanted to find out what was causing all the pain i was having and i still have problems getting pain meds even though i never ask for narcodics for these disorders. and i am a ex EMT and know when to use pain med and when not to.

Thank you, been busy the job of a executor of a estate is not for the faint hearted

I am the son of a WW2 veteran and we had a problem with my fathers payments to the bank starting in January 2011 due to some changes in his accounts at the bank we had to make due to him being under the Power of Attorney because he had Alzheimer The bank started to to send his direct deposit checks back to the VA for his disability(100% SC) without telling us first. We tried to get the payment restored and get the money going back to his account and the VA was dragging there feet. In Nov my father passed from the Alzheimer and now as Executor of an estate i am trying to get the money for the estate. Our local county VA rep told my sister in law that we may never be able to get it for the estate. i know they take back the last payment but that still leaves about $26.730 that he earned and was owed. we need part to pay his final bills and the rest is part of his estate. i don't want to have to take this to my congressman or senator but as the Executor its part of my duties to get this solved

What i would inherit would not put me anywhere near $80,000 so i guess i would not be in to bad a shape. And the home would be motor home and my truck for a car. So i would be alright there.

I am a 60 year old veteran on a 90% VA disability pension and 10% SC and my father is in late stage Alzheimer. When he passes how will any money or money from the sale of his property affect my disability pension When he passes i as the his executor will have to sell his houses and property and divide the money 5 ways. Plus i will have to find a place to live as i am care taking one of his homes and watching the other property right now. I plan to buy a motor home to live in as i can not take cold weather or hot weather any more. and plan to fallow the weather. I don't want to rent a place to live as i have had many problems with landlords and don't want to deal with them anymore. living in a motor home if i don't like where i am living its simple to move just load up and drive away. Plus i have a number of friends that will give me a place to park in exchange for watching there property as a caretaker. As far as i can tell my part of the inheritance will be about $20.000 to $30.000 due the the housing market. Will this stop my pension till i use up the inheritance or how does that work i never have got a stright story on it. I also plan to take some collage courses in gunsmithing and the motor home will allow me to travel to that part of the state to the collage.

There are a few people out there that are busybodies that find out someone is on disability but don't look sick will turn the person in just to cause trouble. I have heard from other veterans that one person claims that they see me riding around on a bicycle and i don't look disabled. true i do ride on a bicycle around town when the weather is right. as per doctors orders This person also claims to have turned me in to social security for disability fraud and wonders why i keep getting away with the fraud. The person does not seem to understand that i am not on SSI/SSD but i am on veteran disability pension 90% and 10% service connected. So likely SS just throws the complaint in the round file. Yes many people on disability do not look disabled but are. I have fibromyalgia, cronic insomnia sleep apnea, neuropathy, stage 4 sleep disorders, Sarcoidosis, Have had a heart attack with 5x bypass. and scarring of the right ventricle. I don't give in to my health problems.I don't give up. That may be why some people don't believe i am disabled.

I was on the USS Enhance during Endsweep. I would guess you were on a West Coast Sweep and docked for refueling and to take on fresh water at Johnston island(aka Johnston Atoll). http://home.earthlink.net/~markinthepacific/id6.html http://veteransinfo.tripod.com/ao%20johnston%20atoll/johnston_island.pdf http://www.nal.usda.gov/speccoll/findaids/agentorange/intro.htm I have had a heart attack with 5 way bypass, ischemic heart disease, and neuropathy of both my feet and hands.I also have autoimmune sarcoidosis. I never docked in south vietnam as my sweep caught fire in Hai Phong Harbor after a 1 1/2 months and had to be towed back to subic bay for repairs. I have filed and was denied as they don't recognise Johnston island unless you were stationed there. There are also questions about agent orange being used at the naval station Guam in the ammo storage area(Fena Lake) that was also the fresh water supply for the main navy base. http://cybersarges.tripod.com/aoguam.html http://guamagentorange.info/sanderson_research

I am a blue water vet with no boots on the ground in Vietnam. I just got one of the Nehmer review notices and I wonder if i should add a statement that i have boots on the ground in Guam and Johnston island in 1973 and how i would have been exposed just in case they ever admit that agent orange was used or leaked in both places.(We all know that did happen. Especially Johnston island) The mine sweep i was on pulled into johnston island twice and we stayed over night to do repairs and take on stores, fuel, and fresh water from the islands distillation/reverse Osmosis plant(understand they had both types in 1973).

Where i am we do not get travel to the lancaster calif Outpatient Clinics i have to drive 120 miles round trip and no travel. I tried once. Only when i go to the Sepulveda Ambulatory Care Center(260 miles) or west LA VA hospital (290 miles)do i get travel.

The VA West LA Calif went to a check system for paying travel claims over $50 dollars. at my last (and the first claim since this new policy went into affect)visit to the west LA hospital I went to travel and put in for my travel money and and the cashier. They said i would get my check in week and a half that was Aug 26 its now Sep 18 and still no check. Anyone else having to wait for them to send your travel money and how long does it take. I am 10% service connected and 90% pension disabled. Anyone know who i complain to if the check does not show up by my next appointment on oct 30

I take gabapentin for fibromyalgia and neuropathy.300mg x3 I actually lost weight on GABA. but that was weight i had gained when they had me on amitriptyline for the fibro and neuropathy.(by the way anti depressants did nothing for the pain of fibro or neuropathy. just plugged up my prostate till it took 15+ min to pee. and left me in a brain fog.) I am a ex EMT and had to trick the PCP/PA that i go to into giving me GABA by telling her that i needed Gabapentin or vicodin or i was going higher up for something for pain. I knew she would not give me the vicodin that left her with giving me the GABA that I wanted in the first place. After 4 years i am still on the dose i started on but i don't take 300mg x3 a day. i take as needed most of the time i just take one a day but on really bad days i take 4 a day. so far a have not built up tolerance to GABA and had to increase the dosage full time. 0

I wonder if it would apply. The minesweep i was on stopped and refueled twice in 1973 on the way to and coming back from haiphong sweep operation we also filled our fresh water tanks a more then a couple times while we were there because everyone wanted a long showers as our evap system seldom keep up and underway we were on rationing. I know from a ex employee that worked on Johnson that there distillation system took water from the lagoon and agent orange leaked tight through the coral material and into the water There is a site on the Internet (Alvin L. Young collection i believe)that shows that the storage area for agent orange had numerous spilled BEFORE the time i was there

rockhound if you are still out there how long between this hospitalization and the first symptoms of the sarcoidosis. and have you ever heard of neurosarcoidosis. http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/neurosa...sarcoidosis.htm Psychosis arising from "organic" (non-psychological) conditions is sometimes known as secondary psychosis. It can be associated with the following pathologies: * neurological disorders, including: o brain tumour[19] o dementia with Lewy bodies[20] o multiple sclerosis[21] o sarcoidosis[22] o Lyme Disease[23][24][25] o syphilis [26][27] o Alzheimer's Disease[28] o Parkinson's Disease[29] your symptoms sound like they possibly were a early attack of the sarc on your brain. some people have sarc that comes and goes. and can attack ANY organ of the body and remission only to reappear somewhere else years later. acute inflammation in the brain caused by sarcoidosis could present as a acute psychotic episode. http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/155/8/1106

Does any one on this forum know how or if a disabled veteran receiving a VA pension can use/have a "supplemental needs trust" set up by the family trust To receive the inheritance of a father at his death. It is my understanding that this will let the veteran get the use of the inheritance money for dental, eye care, car repairs, insurance, getting a replacement car,gas money, schooling or other special needs etc, without the loss of his VA disability pension. And no the father can not set this up at this time as he has alzheimer's. And the veteran's disability is physical not mental so he does not need a guardian to administer it.

that is the coolest looking quack device i have seen in years. i note that the maker claims no medical cures. other people may. this keeps the FDA from coming down on the maker and dragging him into court.

Good luck proving to the VA that trichloroethylene caused health problem. I just got my denial letter from the VA for service connected and i believe that my castleman's disease was caused by TCE and i was exposed to levels 10000 times higher then the camp lejeune personal. The navy used TCE as a cleaning solvent for equipment and we used the pure stuff. cleaned oil and grease of our bodies with it all the time being told it was harmless. The DOD's and VA's position is to denie all health problems due to TCE even though they have banned TCE due to health problems. A lawsuit against the manufacturers may be the only way to break this with the VA.

I am a old hand at dealing with gov employees and I know that any thing that they tell you has no legal standing. But a FOIA request has to be the truth or they will have to ansure to someone higher up like a congressman or a senator and they don't want that. I have a very very rare autoimmune disorder that the main medical center that treats the disorder says there are only about 500 cases in the US. But i have found 20 vets with this disorder and that's just doing Internet research and from talking to a DAV worker at there main office in LA Calif. How many more vets have been DXed with this disorder. I also have found about 15 research papers on this disorder that have been done by VA doctors. Strange that VA doctors would be doing so much research on a very very rare disorder unless the VA was seeing a number of cases. It would be hard to do research without a number of people with the disorder. If they deny my service connection for this disorder I plan to find out how many vets the VA is treating or knows about. if it above normal there is something going on as the VA will not know of all cases due to a percentage of vets that have good insurance and/or have never connected the VA. If I find high numbers. The VA has been keeping quiet about or has not keep track of the number of vets I will be sure to let my senators know something is going on. At the same time i file a appeal citing the high numbers.