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Still waiting for someone to point to the future and not the past... Thanks for trying. The tinnitus was denied a long, long time ago, many times. Always appealed, always denied. When I got death threats and had to hide for awhile, all my VA stuff went bye bye for a while, deadlines came and went. As I said before, in July 2016 I restarted my claim for PTSD and was immediately approved (I guess the VA didn't want to pay 20 years of backpay) with the tinnitus being REOPENED. I have a great group working on all of it and they give me great answers when I ask. And they know my case. But they're exceptionally busy. My case is so convoluted (isn't everybody's?) that to start fresh with you all, I'd need to write a book. But I won't. Even though that's the only way to get answers that are pertinent to my questions. Regarding talking to the doctors about my tinnitus, as I said, I talk to them about it every time. Whether it's my PC doctor or a nurse or a C&P examiner... They all know that it is constant, that it drives me batty. That's why the VA prescribed me a mouthguard to stop me grinding my teeth in my sleep because of the tinnitus (and PTSD). In my records. I may just stick to my group about this because the answers I'm getting are daily experiences with me, or 20 years of experience, or common knowledge. But I won't say anything bad about the info, because there might be someone who is just starting on their tinnitus claim, unlike me, who doesn't know where to begin. Your answers above, though useless to me, might benefit a newbie.

Yeah... I told every single VA medical staff along the way *for the past 20 years* as well as the C & P examiner last August that I have recurrent tinnitus, and it's splattered through my notes and records like a bad case of projectile diarrhea... And they still ignore it. At least in my approval envelope for PTSD it is classed as "reopened." All I'm asking for is where to go from here. Now that it's been reopened. I'm new here at hadit, but I'm absolutely not new to the demonic tactics the VA uses against us. I'm just looking for new information to use for direction on what to do next. If someone can really help me. After looking on this site for several years, I've seen some really good information and there are some knowledgeable people. So I'm not giving up hope that one or two of them will step forward and tell me something that actually applies to my future not my past. I'm hopeful...

I was really only wanting to know about the tinnitus.

In late July, 2016, I reapplied for PTSD and hearing loss/tinnitus. I was approved for 50% PTSD in late September, 2016 after a grueling 20 year fight with the VA. Why is the VA so many faceted toward us veterans? Not going to go into that here... But I was turned down AGAIN for hearing loss even though the VA gave me hearing aids in 2010, and falsified results of a new hearing test in 2013 (by doing just the "point my finger in the air" when I heard a tone, with my back turned and simple headphones on my head) when attempting to replace my hearing aids which were stolen with almost $13,000 of my personal property that was in my truck in 2012. They threw out the tinnitus claim several times, and only recently when the VA miraculously approved my PTSD but still expectedly denied my hearing loss AGAIN, the VA REOPENED MY TINNITUS CASE. It is at a level that it interferes with daily life and causes added stress that causes the VA to prescribe me a mouthguard in 2010 to stop me from grinding my teeth in my sleep. What would be my next steps. The notifications and decisions all came in September 2017. I will post other questions that are separate. "All things are possible to him that believes." Mark 9:23