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Just got 100% Scheduled a little about my journey Started in Aug 2018 Bilateral tinnitus 10% - Had a C & P exam-(8/13/2018)- Worked in a Generator Room and Engine room have ringing and roaring noise in both ears-Did on my own PTSD/MST 50%- Happened while on Active Duty- Had C & P exam-(12/10/2018)-Had Nexus letter from my doctor and help from a the local VA Sleep Apnea 50%- Secondary to PTSD/MST- Had C & P Exam-(08/16/2019)- Had Nexus letter from my doctor and a sleep study by the VA Diabetes Mellitus type 2-20%- No C & P Exam-(08/17/2020)-Secondary to PTSD/MST and Sleep Apnea- Had Nexus letter and researched and sent in some supporting Documents Frozen Shoulder -40%-Had a C & P Exam-(12/30/2020)- Secondary to Diabetes- Was being treated for it and researched and sent in some supporting Documents and sent in medical records Peripheral Neuropathy (left lower extremity affecting the femoral Nerve)-20% -No C & P Exam-(7/09/2021)- Secondary to Diabetes- Sent in Copy of my medical records and researched and sent in some supporting Documents Peripheral Neuropathy (left lower extremity affecting the sciatic Nerve)-20% -No C & P Exam-(7/09/2021)- Secondary to Diabetes- Sent in Copy of my medical records and researched and sent in some supporting Documents Peripheral Neuropathy (right lower extremity affecting the femoral Nerve)-20% -No C & P Exam-(7/09/2021)- Secondary to Diabetes- Sent in Copy of my medical records and researched and sent in some supporting Documents Peripheral Neuropathy (right lower extremity affecting the sciatic Nerve)-20% -No C & P Exam-(7/09/2021)- Secondary to Diabetes- Sent in Copy of my medical records and researched and sent in some supporting Documents The dates highlight are the approved dates. Some suggestions: Research what you are submitting, here at HADIT, Google. Submit as many backing documents as you can especially tying in secondary conditions Write a well personal statement ( Describing the issue) Have your spouse/or someone familiar with the issue write a statement Get a good Nexus letter from a Doctor you trust this is the format I used (https://militarydisabilitymadeeasy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/NEXUS-letter-sample.pdf) Get copies of all medical records and submit copies ( Don't be afraid to highlight parts of the records that my pertain to your issue) Do Not be afraid to ask for help may great veterans here at HADIT are willing to help you along your journey to get what you deserve. Also many local VA centers have support staff to ask questions and guide you along your journey Do Not Give up!! Many Successful stories here

Thanks for the feedback. Makes sense. My first claim for my PTSD 50% was approved 8/16/2019 and I received over 10 grand back pay on 8/30/1019. The latest one closed on Friday 4/10/2020 sleep apnea secondary to PTSD should be a little over 5 grand. I guess just have to wait and see.

Just wondering if anyone knows what the timeline is to receive back pay?

So today I found my claim was approved today for Sleep Apnea secondary for PTSD for 50%. As promised I have attached all the documents I sent in with my claim. This claim took less than a month from when I sent it into approval. I have also included a copy of the nexus my doctor wrote. With the proper research and a good nexus you can win this. I hope my research willhelp other win their claims. High Risk.pdf How PTSD relates to obstructive sleep apnea & cpap therapy.pdf My Statement.pdf Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.pdf PTSD and Sleep.pdf PTSD Severity Linked to Higher Risk of Sleep Apnea in Veterans.pdf PTSD symptoms go beyond psychological.pdf Sleeo Study.pdf Sleep and PTSD.pdf Sleep apnea found in 57%.pdf Sleep Disordered Breathing in patients with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder.pdf The National Veteren Sleep Disorder Study.pdf The PTSD and Sleep-Apnea Connection.pdf The PTSD-OSA Paradox.pdf VA sleep study Publication.pdf Nexus.docx

Found out today it was approved!!!50% puts me at 80%

Found out today they approved my claim for Sleep apnea secondary to PTST. Very excited. Will post the links to the studies that I submitted within a few days. Took less than a month for them to decide. Puts me at 80%

Attempting to figure how ratings work when it comes to back pay. Chatted with a few vets and go 2 different answers. Example: Say at the moment I am 60% SC (a 10% and 50% rounded to 60%,) I submitted a claim that has been going on about 16 months and then they approve me another 50% which when rounded brings me to 80%. One vet says I receive the 50% back for the 16 months Example using todays married rates: 50% which is $1795.80 x 15 months which is $26,712 give or take a little The other vet says I get the difference between the 2 example. Total new 80%- old 20" which would be roughly $4,500.32 Nobody can give me a real answer

After a lot of research on the 18th I submitted my claim for Sleep Apnea secondary to PTSD. I waited a while due to the fact I wanted another sleep study done by the VA. Had that completed and placed on a Cpap machine. After doing many months of research I found that many Sleep Apnea secondary to PTSD claims were won by having a nexus letter written by a doctor stating that their PTSD at least likely as not aggravated there Sleep Apnea and that their Sleep Apnea as least likely at not aggravated their PTSD. This is the way my Doctor and my counselor wrote them. I also found 18 studies on PTSD and Sleep apnea . I will keep you all updated and hope to be able to post positive results and then will share with everyone all my links and documents I found as soon as I get a moment to organize them.

Good evening, When submitting a claim how many of you write a personal statement and submit it with the claim?

Just wondering if anyone has granted Sleep Apnea Seconday to PTSD? If so any tips? This is what I have so far. 50% PTSD/MST Had a home sleep study done and was diagnosed with moderate Sleep Apnea with recommendation for cpap. Am in the process of scheduling an on campus Sleep study thru the VA per my PCP's recommendation Have been on meds that cause weight gain xanax for anxiety and atenenol for hypertension Have a letter from my wife stating she notice my snoring and breathing issues when we first moved into gather, this is before I gained weight. Have a letter from a college roommate who live in the same dorm room with me a year after getting out of the service stating I snored badly then. Was in the reserves then so had to keep weight down. Have reoccurring nightmares that interrupt my sleep patterns, Is documented. Have eight documented studies showing that PTSD and sleep apnea are related. Both my PCP and my Therapist both are willing to right nexus letter on my behalf. What else should I get to help my claim? Should I go for hypertension secondary to PTSD first?

Time Frame 1987: When I was in boot camp while running are first PT a fellow recruit tripped in front of me causing me to twist and land hard on my left hip. I remember when attempting to get up being in extreme pain and vomiting due to the pain. There was a Corpsman who was there in the building and he quickly examined me and a decision was made to send me back to the barracks and ice over night and to see how it will be in the morning. I could not walk at that moment and was driven back to the barracks. I remember getting helped undressed and placed in my bottom rack. It was a rough night any movement caused very severe pain and have a bunk mate and his moving around caused even more pain. About 2 in the morning my Company Commander who happened to be on duty moved my bunk mate to an empty rack and slipped my some Tylenol. First think the next morning I was sent in and was seen by a Doctor, his diagnoses was a severe pulled muscle was given a light duty chit and required to rest and pain meds note he was a general medical doctor and not a specialist. No X-ray was taken. After daily trips back in forth to the Hospital and not really making any improvement about 4 weeks I was sent to a specialist. I met this female orthopedic doctor, who was very concerned. After some test she concluded that severally tore my muscle, but what was more interesting was she found that my left leg is shorter than my right by over an inch. I was given decision I either could stay behind to recover and move with a new recruit company, Get medically discharged or attempt to run the last PT test. I chose to run the PT test although did very heavily medicated. This is all well documented in my records. I also have a few accounts of left ankle and hip pain during my Reserve time that is documented. Fast Forward to 2013: While working as a Paramedic was involved in accident that caused very severe left hip and groin pain. Was sent to physical therapy who noticed the hip/groin was very tight and asked if I had any past injuries, after explaining he suggested to the doctor that he thought I had a labral tear and refused to do many of the exercises assigned because of my pain level and the groin kept locking up. After being screw around by work place health and being sent back to work I was walking into a patients home in Dec 2014 and my hip gave out. Again got screwed around with workplace health and finally told them to pound sand and had my personal doctor set me up with an Orthopedic surgeon. In May 2015 The Orthopedic surgeon sent me in for an MRI with contrast and I was found to have a very severe labral tear. I was sent to another surgeon for surgery to repair the tear, which failed. In November 2015 I had a complete left hip replacement. I still have limited range of motion, and continued pain on the left side due to muscle issue. My pelvis has been tilted and I feel the fall started it all. Do you think I have a case?

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I had a DBQ done on June 11th and was just wondering if anyone could give me a rough timeline when it should show as submitted in MyVA. Its still listed as requested.

Sorry, I've taken so long to respond have a lot going on. Doc25 I was looking at the DBQ form for hypertension and attempting to figure out how they rate it. If my Doctor writes a nexus letter and fills out the DBQ without having me stop my medications to do the 3-5 day multi readings they would like: and covers the following #1. Current service connected disability. (You have that.) #2. Current diagnosis of condition claimed. (You have that.) #3. Obtain a nexus of opinion that states the minimum threshold as follows: The veteran's claimed condition is "at least as likely as not" (equal to or greater than 50% probability) due to or the result of the veteran's service-connected PTSD. And also states he feels that my diastolic pressure would average above 130 if take off my meds. We have documented proof that on at least five separate occasions when on a very high dose of hypertension meds my diastolic reading has been 110 which we will put in the Nexus letter. What sort of rating could I expect? Thanks for everyone's help

My personal Doctor feels I should file a hypertension claim secondary to my PTSD/MST claim. Looking through my Military medical records it shows that my BP started elevating after the events started both systolic and diastolic numbers. About 3 months after my discharge one of my doctors placed me on bp medications and I have continued taking them. Even while on them my diastolic is always around 82-85. My question is that I am aware that the VA wants a 2-5 day consecutive reading to diagnose hypertension. I have been on hypertension medication now for over 25 years. My personal doctor does not feel comfortable taking me off these medications to get these readings. Unless it is in a very controlled environment where I could be monitored. Strokes run in the family and he does not feel safe taking me off these meds. Will a nexus letter from him explaining the visitation be significant to cover this. He feels that without the medication my diastolic BP would be above 130.

Looking for some guidance. I served on active duty in the Navy from 87-90 overseas on a ship. My original plans when I enrolled was to do 20 years, Back in Dec of 2018 I met with and amazing Veterans Service Officer about a tinnitus claim which was approved. While there she had handed me a bunch papers about claims and one was on PTSD and MST. She was copying and I was reading the PTSD-MST document and it triggered a bunch of emotions where I started shacking and tearing up. The VSO walked in and noticed my state and asked me if I was ok. I tried to answer her but, couldn't she went and got a male VSO and a male nurse to come in. Once the nurse helped calmed me down the male VSO noticed the document I was reading and we talked for awhile about it and I briefly explained a little. He recommend that I file a DBA for PTSD-MST and recommended the following. I document everything I can remember about the events is causing my stressors: I wrote an eight page document in details about the events. Talk to my wife about what happened and have her write a document on what she sees and how it effects our relationship: After having an very hard emotional talk with her, she wrote a two page document. My 20 year old son also wrote a two page document on things he as seen, even though he only knows a little about what happened. Talk to my doctor about what happened: Made an appointment and discussed detail what happened and he diagnosed me with severe PTSD and anxiety placed on Xanax as needed. He wrote a Nexus letter and has sent it into the VA for me Now I explain a little about what when on when arriving on ship I was assigned to a steam generator room and assigned watch with two other sailors one was a 2nd Class Petty officer and the other a 3rd class. At the time we were doing 12 hour watches 12 on 12 off. The first few watches went well. We were getting ready to pull into Subic Bay Philippines for a few days before heading back to Japan. They both stated " We want you to come out and drink with us and then we can tag team a few girls". Now a little history alcoholism runs in my family and I don'y shy away from drinking I just know my limits. When we arrived in port I hung out with a few of my buddies instead. When we headed back to sea things went down hill. On my first watch back with them they yelled to me to come to the watch booth which was big enough for 2 chairs and a small table/chair between them the whole booth was maybe 4 feet by 6 feet with a center door and windows. When I went in I noticed they both had towels over their laps which wasn't unusual do to it being over 100 degrees in there. I was told to sit down and did then one of them stated we figured out why you didn't go out with use you must be gay and not like girls. I didn't get a chance to answer when they ripped the towels off and exposed themselves to me. I tried to leave but they held the door laughing. I was finally let out and was very shaken up. This happened many time the next few day the both continually exposed themselves to me. I would ask them to stop and would be ignored. I went to my Chief Petty officer and told him what was going and and got this remark back " Why you trying to get them in trouble they are just playing with you". I went to back to my watch and was cornered by them and verbally threatened to keep my mouth shut. With out going in two many details things escalated to the point where I wold come done to watch and they would be masturbating in the open I'd try to move away and they would chase me around. One time I was working in the bilge( bottom area of ship lots of stinky water and valves) under the floor of our work space crawling around attempting to fix a valve when I felt what I thought was water coming down on me upon looking up realized they were urinating on me. A lot more worse things happened. I was very depressed and felt helpless. I tho ought about suicide many time and even cut my wrist once when things were at its worst. Got scared and told everyone I fell and sliced it still have the scar. Other than my failed attempt to tell my Chief about it I never told a soul about it. I ask myself why didn't I fight back? Lets put it this way at the time I weighed about 125 lbs soaking wet and about 5'7". They both were about 170-180 and were both over 6 feet. I was working in a space alone with them at anytime they could injury me say I got hurt working it was my word against the 2 of them. Why has it taking so long for me to open up about this? I always thought that Sexual trauma only happened to woman. I was scared and embarrassed to admit he happened to me. How has this affected me. I have nightmares weekly. I have flashbacks. Something will trigger memories and I'll have panic attacks. I have intimacy issues. I have ED issues that started at an early age. I have issues in places where there may be Male Public Nudity ( Locker rooms, even public restrooms I'll use a stall ) Just because it triggers flashback of them and what they did. I have issues with Male authority figures. I have the tendency to back down from and conflicts even though and right. Fear retaliation And the big one still fear retaliation from them. Still fear after almost 30 years that exposing them and what happened they will find away to get me. Thank you to everyone who reads this. Now my questions: Is there anything else I should include to help my case? I'm aware that after my meeting with the VSO they will set me up with a DBA with someone from the VA. What can I expect from that meeting and how should I prepare for it? What about secondary PTSD symptoms what applies? After meeting with my personal doctor he actually interned at the VA center I going to. He suggested apply for ratings secondary to the PTSD rating for the following. Erectile dysfunction, hypertension. Do you feel that these are ok? Are there others that I should consider or be aware of?

Have a few questions about a possible claim. I was in the Navy back in the 87-90. During boot camp while running our first PT another recruit slipped and fell in front of me causing me to trip over him. I twisted my left hip causing excruciating pain. I remember being helped back to the barracks and originally told to sleep it off. I remember being on the bottom bunk and anytime the bunk moved being in extreme pain. The company commander that was doing the night watch actually came in and had a few of the recruits split the bed apart in the middle of the night do to all the pain I was in. The pain was in the left groin area and radiated to my left hip. I was then sent to the on base hospital, I saw a doctor who says it was just a groin pull and gave me some pain medication and was placed on light duty. Moving ahead about 2 weeks after a few followups, and never getting an x-ray I was sent to a Orthopedic Doctor on base. At first she treated it the same way as just a stubborn muscle pull. After a few weeks of seeing no improvement she decided to run a few test, having me walk straight lines. She noticed I favor my right side. She did some measuring and found that my left leg is almost 1/2 inch longer than my right leg. I was given a lift for my shoe and was given an option of going home or pushing thru the pain and attempting to pass the last PT test .NO X-RAY was ever completed. I stayed in passed the test highly medicated but I passed. During my years in the military I struggled to finish PT runs due to pain in the left hip/groin. I never had issues before I ran many road races and played baseball and soccer during high school years with no issues have documentation to prove that. Have had issues with the left hip through the years. Moving on a few years Oct 2013 I worked as a paramedic and was involved in a significant ambulance accident. While being treated for lower back pain I started developing left hip pain. The doctor and physical therapist stated they felt my left hip was very tight, mentioned my military incident and they felt it could be scar tissue from the pull. Filed a claim in 2014 with the VA and was denied with no rating exam completed. Moving on to May 2015 things were getting worse was sent to s specialist and was found to have a very serious labral tear in my hip. Went in and had a scope surgery done and the Surgeon noted I had three tears one small one on top of the hip and 2 very severe tears at the bottom of the hip near the groin. He stated he wasn't sure if the surgery would last do to the damage and felt that the tears most likely were there from a past injury and the crash just aggravated them. Unfortunately the surgery failed and on Nov 2015 I had my left hip replaced. My question is with the new information from the surgeons should I file a new claim? And if so what should I claim? On going hip issues: Still walk with a limp. Get very tired with walking Still have muscular issues with the left hip Still have pain and discomfort at times with the left hip Any help or comments would be greatly appreciated. Thank you all for your service.