armyvet89

If I had to throw out a WAG Id say 70% likely based on the "occupational & soc impairment with deficiencies in most areas". If you could redact and post your C&P that would help alot of folks out on here. I can tell you that the C&P is just a piece of evidence that the VA will use to decide your claim. You doctors notes and treatment records and everything will come in to play when they go to decide your claim. In my opinion, the C&P is one of the biggest pieces because I was diagnosed with PTSD in 2011 by a VA doc and have been on meds and going thru treatment ever since and when I applied they denied me because the doc that did the exam was a joke. On the other hand I had a buddy diagnosed with anxiety in service retired and applied for comp and the exam was not favorable at all and he still ended up with 30%. So it will depend on more than just the C&P.... Hope this helps!

I have been diagnosed with OSA with a civilian sleep doctor. I plain on claiming it secondary to PTSD that has been diagnosed. I did not have a diagnosis in service but I did have a orthopedic surgeon diagnose presumptive OSA based on my habits during a knee surgery and I have that documentation. While going thru my screening and treatment for ptsd (5 months after discharge) I had several complaints of sleep issues but no specific symptoms were mentioned. 
So now that I have the DX of OSA I asked the doc to fill out the DBQ and he did. I told him I would need a nexus between ptsd and my OSA and thanks to the new sleep apnea standards a letter describing why a CPAP is medically necessary. He was all about helping me. He wrote on the DBQ that "PTSD is very aggravated by untreated OSA and makes a significant upset in his day to day life". In the remarks section he said that "patient will experience excessive day sleepiness making it extremely dangerous to operate Henry machinery or motor vehicles putting patient at risk for serious injury or death". The doctor also gave me a news study showing a like between ptsd and osa as well as an article showing a connection between the two based off of the medicine I am on.
I also have a letter from my wife stating that I did not snore at all before service but saying I started after my deployment to Iraq. So my question is this, is what the doctor said enough to get service connection?

Johnny a stressor has to raise to a specific level to be a "stressor" for VA purposes.

Also the delayed after- affect of the stressor is what PTSD involves-

I assume the VA has diagnosed you with PTSD already. The National Center for PTSD also provides a good definition of stressor.

http://www.ncptsd.va.gov/ncmain/ncdocs/fac...amp;echorr=true

This was surely a traumatic event you told us of but it is the way the stressor affects a veteran -that the VA actually rates.

I have been affiliated with local Fire/EMT/Police- as a volunteer for fire auxilliary-for a decade-
our EMTs have been exposed to countless 'stressors' without any substantial after affects-then again-
one EMT I know seems to be having flashbacks of a recent accident that caused a child to die.
At scenes were there is signigicant loss of life (MVAs etc) there are often grief counselors who talk to the EMTs and firemen and women right after the event.

My point is the VA will want to know how this particular event caused you to have PTSD.They will consider your treatment records of course.As an EMT they will want to know how this incident raised to level of stressor.Did you know the man who died well?
Did it appear that without your help and expertise the veteran would have died also?
Were you physically in proximity to the explosion enough that it could have killed or injured you too? Was the explosion due to incoming or landmines- that also could have injured you?



I suggest that you check out :
http://www.ptsdmanual.com/

My deceased husband was combat Vietnam vet with 100% SC PTSD.

He told me of almost every trauma in Nam except the most horrible stuff which he would not even tell VA about.

In his PTSD questionnaire most of the stressors he had in Vietnam did not involve the direct combat at all.

Certainly PTSD is not dependent on combat and we have many vets here with non-combat PTSD.

A trauma is usually revealled many many times in the course of therapy.
VA looks for consistency in describing a traumatic event.
The buddy could prepare a statement that reflects the event as you described it to the VA -but in their own words as to what happened as an eye witness account to what you also experienced.