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Thanks for all the help!!

Hi, Right now I'm 30% for generalized anxiety disorder. My question is...I plan on trying to get off my medication soon, I slowly keep getting it reduced. If I go off my anxiety medication but still see the Therapist will I have to report this to the va so they don't overpay me. This should effect my rating right? I will still be going to the therapist just won't be on meds, so will I go from 30% to 10% for not being on meds anymore. I've been 30% since 2006 and on meds. Please let me know little confused how this works, thanks

When I had my first GAF scale it was January of 2007, and I wasn't on meds at the time, trying to control it without meds, anyways my GAF was 50 in january 2007, since then I coudn't control it too good and had to go on meds, paxil and wellbutrin, but they made me worse so now I'm with effexor and on levitra for ed problems and I also have my ED claim C/P exam this tuesday. I'm really not loking for tdiu at the moment or anytime soon, i would just like a little higher rating. I would really like to go to college and get a decent job someday. I'm also sorry Will, and thanks for your service as well.

Hi rentalguy, it says under the diagnosis of my first GAF when i had my initial C/P exam Diagnosis: Axis I- 300.02 Generalized Anxiety Disorder 300.4 Dysthymic Disorder R/O Major Depression Axis II- No Diagnosis Axis III- Asthma, HTN? Axis IV- unemployed, financial pressures, social isolation. Axis V-GAF- 50 I am also 10% for hypertension. Thanks everyone for all the help, My lawyer just sent me a copy of my notice of disagreement and is pushing for a 70% rating at least, We'll see if i get another C/P, do you think I will?

I haven't worked since september 0f 2006, my relatioships suffer with family and friends. I just thought a 50 GAF score was serious symptoms and I get a 10% rating. thanks for your help

Hi I for some reason, I never knew my GAF score, and didn't know much about it, and I just found it in my record. I was given a GAF score of 50 with a 10% disability rating for anxiety/depression, where as my lawyer wrote up in my disagreement letter that a score of 50 should be at least 70%, is this true and did the VA, low ball my disability, this is all new to me with the GAF score. Like I said my appealing the original rating, within the year.

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Hi I have a ED c/p exam for the 29th, and I was wondering what does it entail, and what should I bring to the exam, like medication for ed, med records etc..? thanks

I also have my ED c/p exam next week, does anyone know what that entails?

thanks betty, for all the advice, keep you posted

Hi everyone, I talked to the VA patient advocate and he emailed my VA mental health provider and this is what she wrote to him and me. Hi—Listen, I just got done clarifying some things with your agent—a Mr. someone from Boston ??? Anyway, he shared your email to him with me, and I feel like crap that I may have misstated anything you told me… I hope you’ll call/come in Wed., so I can apologize, AND correct whatever I had written that wasn’t accurate—same goes for a brief note of Donna Scavones’ that I think was put into my note, or the other way around—and then was sort of up to be taken out of context… I meant for nothing to be said in your notes other than I gether this from your words, other stuff from your presentatiojn/dialogue with me, etc. I think the old medical adage—where my girl friend’s chest x-rays s were interpreted as “not impressive” by a surgeon DIDN’T mean she didn’t have an awesome chest—she just didn’t need anything—like a tumor—surgically removed!!! Soplease forgive me if I mistyped anything—I know I mixed a female relative up with your grandmother—anyway—I think things were very poorl y interpreted//or communicated BY ME, and I wrote the man back and told him so. Please let me correct whatever is OFF… I’ll wait to hear from you—This is clearly MY ERROR—but I don’t think I fouled you up, if my corrections to him make sense to him. Thanks, Mary ellen So I think the patient Advocate seemed to work, thanks for the help, will keep you posted, I got my ED c/p exam next week, does anyone know what that entails?

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thanks josephine :)

Hi does anyone know where I can find info on the GAF scale for mental disibilites?

thanks, I contacted the patient advocte for the boston area and wrote it in an email because it was long and detailed. He's supposed call back, I asked if I can change doctors because I can't trust her, we'll see what happens next.

Thanks Josephine!

Sorry Josaphine this wasn't a C and P exam, this is my VA primary care shrink. I will make a appointment with a patients advocate tomorrow to try and change this. I have my C and P exam next week for my ED claim, we'll see how that goes. Does anyone know how much a IMO would cost me, without insurance. My laywer said it would be a good idea to get a IMO also, because its outside the VA. I didn't look into it yet, but if anyone knows the price roughly please let me know, without insurance paying cash? thanks everyone for all the help and support and all the best to each of you! <_<

I'll keep you guys posted, I called today but it was closed, I'll try again tomorrow to talk to a patient advocate.

Does every VA out patient medical center have a patient advocate? Also how can I put in a notice of disagreement with something in my medical record, please let me know?

thanks everyone

thanks let me know jazona

thanks, i already sent the va my medical records when i first opende the claim 1/1/2 years ago, I was never seen for any mental problems before the service and they should have that in my c-file

hi, I think the va shrink is trying to screw up my claim. I'm 10% for anxiety and, I recently got a copy of my medical recored, and she says that I always had this since childhood and that I was a fussy and fitful child. which is all totally wrong, I wrote her an email telling to change this because I never said that, I said when I was young, I was sometime a little on the she side, but never had anxeity when I was young, Do the VA shrink try to do this to screw up claims or what. This is BS! What can I do, My VA primary care told me to file for an increase, which I already did, but when they find this i'm going to lose the 10% i already had because of some dumb shrink. please help what can I do to get rid of this or change this.

Hey MRlogan13, You can try and do what I did, I went to my old docotrs office where I was seen before entering the military. I requested a copy of my medical records, I believe they hold them for around 20 years or so, anyways get a copy of that if you can and it will show the VA, that you weren't seen in the past for those problems. Thats what I did at least and it seemed to work so far as getting 20%. Its worth a shot anyways.

Hi when I was in bootcamp we used to use Neverdull to polish brass and shine belt buckles, and I was seen in bootcamp for peeling hands, since bootcamp I have had peeling palms and fingertips around twice a year, that gets really bad and sore, down to the newest skin, doesn't bleed though. I was later diagnosed with DYshidrosis in 2003 in the military. I was just wondering, I believe its from the use of neverdull. I never had this before bootcamp. Does anyone know of neverdull causing this skin condition on the hands, like I said its recurrent twice a year. please let me know if anyone else has this problem. I am thinking about putting in a claim for dyshidrosis.