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This is the rationale that the C&P examiner gave. I did not tell her that I had sneezing with my chronic rhinitis and she gives no rationale what so ever for my claim chronic sinusitis. I did present a paper giving the different causes of chronic rhinitis which listed nasal fractures and deviated septum as part of a list of issues that can be the cause, chronic sinusitis was also a problem arising from these two issues. I guess I will have to find another IMO with a good rationale to counter this, in my opinion, bogus rationale.
Rationale: Pathogenesis of nonallergic rhinitis--There is no single unifying theory of pathogenesis for chronic nonallergic rhinitis and it may represent a group of incompletely-defined disorders. However, nonallergic rhinitis can be broadly divided into noninflamatory and inflamatory forms; wit the inflamatory form being further divided into cases that are either eosinopnilic or non-eosinophilic processes. With all forms of chronic non-allergic rhinitis, there is also a variable component of autonomic dysregulation. In the non -inflamatory form, there is no evidence in the medical literature indicating that a deviated septum/nasal fracture causes non-allergic rhinitis.
Clinical features of non-allergic rhinitis which is constant with this veteran includes perenial sysmptoms with prominent nasal congestion and postnasal drainage in contrast with eye symtoms, sneezing and rhinorrhea that are more prominent with allergic rhinitis.
Rockhound Rider B) :( :)
Rockhound,I have been reading more of these. It looks like a good old fashioned nexus letter from a doctor would also be favorable.
They would probably schedule a C&P and try to find post service causes that outweigh the potential for post service development based on the original in service injury. After they put you through all those hoops there is a chance you would get SC'd. If you have a record of treatment from the military to present that would be really hard for them to overlook. You have the option of direct SC or secondary.
As of now I do not see any significant evidence against the claim.
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Rock, you'll get whats due someday. Don't recall if you had supporting documentation in your smr's or not. Ya seen the cat chinup poster that says, 'Hang in there, Fridays coming!'? (made me think of you and yer cat).
Best to ya,
Cg'up2009!
I thought I had all that was needed. I had my enlistment physical that said everything was normal and my medical history was blank for any sinisitis and rhynitis, and my re-enlistment physical was normal. All this was prior to my receiving the fractured nasal bone and deviated septom due to trauma, which a was found to be SC at 0% until just resently when it was found to be rated at 10%, which is the most you can get for a fractured nasal bone with deviated septom due to trauma like mine.
I was trying for the secondary problems as a result of the SC issue. I didn't have these problems before I was injured, but I did afterwards. Also I have problems where my glasses rest on my nose that become painfull and ulcerated 4 or more times a year which should be rated under painful scars at 10% for each side, but it looks like they may not rate this under the proper DC. Instead of painfull scars, it appears they are rating them under disfiguring scars and since they are not that large they could try and get away with maybe SC but at 0%. I'll just have to wait and see what the final decision is going to be.
If I have to get a IMO, it will have to include all the evidence the C&P examiner used and listed plus they will have to give a much more indepth rationale in their reason and basis than what the examiner did, in order to overcome the C&P reason and basis. I might have to save up enough money for such a report, because I don't think my medicare will cover such a report, and examination yes, but the opinion I am not so sure of.
I'll have one year to appeal it, but I was hoping for the added income from this claim to help me with my major one dealing with my major depression and cognitive problems with post traumatic organic personality disorder or personality disorder due to a general medical condition.
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I picked up my C&P exam results today and it wasn't good, they said I had all the secondary issues I claimed to have, but the they were less likely than due to my SC condition.
They said I had chronic sinisitis and Rhynitis, but that neither was due to my SC nasal fracture with deviated septum due to trauma, that their was no correlation between the nasal fracture and the deviated septom and that their is no definitive medical rationale to support the cause being the fractured nasal bone and the deviated septom.
I don't understand how they can say that when I gave them supporting medical literature that shows the rationale to be at least as likely as not.
I also applied for painful scars on my nose, but I am not clear as to whether or not they even plan to rate them, since I believe they may be rating the scars under the wrong diagnostic code, but I'll have to wait until the decision to find out.
It appears I am going to have to get a IMO with evidence/research/treatese, that supports the ENT specialist results, I get.
I am not in a very good mood, to say the least. I got the impression from the C&P examiner that her findings would be favorable, boy was I dubt. I'd go an call her out if I didn't think it would get me in deep doodoo or a private room with padded walls.
Got to go, using computor at VA to write this. they have a time limit so others can use it too.
Rockhound Rider
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I see one of two things that this means. (1) The rater has been given a time limit in which to complete your claim so they can mark your claim as completed within some time limit they were given. (2) The C&P schedule is so backed up, if you decided to reschedule the C&P appointment, it would be some time before you could get in again and therefore it would delay the rating of your claim in perportion to how long you would have to wait for a new appointment.
If you can in no way make this appointment, I would urge you to find a way to make it. With the present climate for raters to clear claims quicker, It would be in your best interest to not reschedule for another date.
Rockhound Rider
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No, you are not the only one Testvet: My only claim to fame in helping other Vets are for my undeciferable post at times. My history in helping is by post, at times, an answer to someone elses question or reading a correction of something I posted being wrong, and of course, telling anyone I talk to, that I got my help with my claim from hadit and a fairly good and conscious VSO, although my VSO is more of a rallying point, since I do all the leg work and they do and file all the paperwork.
When it comes to reading books, I'm as avid as most readers, and I to have memory issues in that I can go back and read an previously read book and enjoy it as if I hadn't read it before, which in a lot of cases I find was what I did. the ADD that is spoken about, for me at least, is actually AOADD (adult onset attention deficit disorder) due to a medical conditon or for some it might be due to the regemine of medications they take.
My ability to concentrate on something is only slightly longer than my ability to remember someones name I just met and if it isn't in the forefront of my thinking process or in front of me, it is only as long as my mind does not become fatigued or my eye sight begins to strain from the effort of reading something that becomes jumbled in a cloud of, where was I at on the page I was reading, or I got to just lie down so my mind and body can catch up with me feeling.
If I want to do any research on my claim, I must do it first, before I even think of visiting any of the webb sites or forums I like to frequent or I have to put it off for later that day or even until the next day, although this site is at the top of my to do lists, so if I am not doing anything else that day, I come here, because I feel I am not alone and can see and tell that their are many others who have similiar issues or have similiar thoughts and similiar problems associated with the DVA.
NO!!! you are not alone. Take a break, sit back in a cumffy chair and read one of your many books that you have and don't remember reading before. LoL :D
Best wishes for a speedy recovery from your burn out. :P :D
B) Rockhound Rider B)
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I filed a claim January 22, 2008 and it was decided October 14, 2008. I filed for increase due to seconday issues of this claim in January which gave me a 10% rating. In March 2008 I filed for the increase for the secondary issues that were not rated,(whether or not the VARO should have considered these problems, I can't say, because I did't specifically apply for them) any way, the increase for the secondary issues, was done with in one year of the claim in January 2008, would that mean that if I should prevail on my claim for increase, that the EED would actually be in Jan, 2008 when the January claim was made and not the date of the claim for increase filed in March of that same year, since it was made within one year of the the claim in January 2008? (provided the evidence shows that the secondary issues were their in January 2008 as well)
Rockhound Rider B)
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Rock, I hear ya, sorry bout your thigh. Been relearning to 'warm up' prior to doing the minor chores that I can. Ain't nothing like thinking that I could haul something like it was yesterday. Ow, hot showers, hot towels and more gentle stretches next time. Physical therapists have taught me how to not bend over and such.
Take care,
Cg'up2009!
Thanks for the sympathy, When I went in to get my birthday present from the VARO, via the Tiger Tean in Cleveland Ohio, I made an appointment to see my PCP, who I had just seen the week before this happened. I have to wait three weeks since she is booked out that far. By the way, the birthday present I was speaking about, was my C&P exam for my Secondary Issues for my SC nasal fracture with deviated septum.
The C&P examiner was an actual Dr and not a Nurse Practitioner like last time. But I had more evidence and photographs of my problems and the exam was or rather the results were for once, inline with my current problems, I was applying for and she seemed to agree. Boy I was glad that, not only was she a Dr., but she was a female Dr. I feel more comfortable with female Dr's.
I related the incident when the VA ENT specialist, a male Dr, reported that I had Sleep Apnea, before I even had a sleep study, which ended up showing I only had very minor Sleep Apnea symptoms, that my problem was due to Nocturnal Hypoxia a different type of sleep disorder and not due to any obstructive problem like would occur with some or most Sleep Apnea sufferer's.
The ENT specialist even said the only thing he could recommend was for me to have a tracheotamy until I lost some weight. I've lost near 80 lbs. since then and still get no relief from my breathing problems through my nose. Even this new C&P Dr. thought that was not only an extreme measure, I cirtanly didn't meet, but that I did have a problem breathing thru my nose.
I'll have to waite until next week for my C&P results and I hope what I read is on line with what and how I felt the exam went. Hopefully it will be a good and probative exam and the rest of my claim process goes along quickly.
Well enough ragging and such. Just felt like saying how things went with my C&P exam. The only one that I came away with a good feeling, but I'll have to wait to find out if it actually did.
Rockhound Rider B)
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I hope your CUE was for the mistaken diagnostic code. Then again, I would look at your old diagnostic code and see if their was a DC that more likely fit your condition 10 yrs ago. The standards for DC's have change in some areas and some did not exsist back then and it is the DC and evidenc, Rules, Regulations, and Laws that were in effect ten years ago and not anything you find now, ten years later.
Was there a DC that fit your condition to a " T " back then? That would be what you need to show CUE for the DC error and that because of this error it would have manifestly change the outcome of your claim. You can"t use todays evidence on a CUE issue that happened ten years ago, except maybe just to show how you found the error in the first place.
Would like to post more in this discussion but I have to get ready for a C&P exam and my Meds have me moving in slow motion today, for some wiered reason I suppose.
Rockhound Rider B)
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In overdoing it, the first day I spent outdoors, doing things around my place, I must have inadvertently hurt my spine is some form or another. I have had a numb feeling now for three days of my left frontal area of my thigh, from just below my waiste down to my knee with out any relief or abatement of the symptoms.
I've been told from a couple of sources that say that I have possibly caused a pintching of my sciatica nerve or any number of disks in my spine. It doesn't hurt anyplace but that doesn't make me feel all the better for it. Walking isn't a problem either, except for the noticable feeling like my thigh is being sprayed with a mist of cold water and trying to sleep with your thigh feeling like something is crawling up your leg is a bit disturbing at times.
I have a C&P exam for unrelated secondary issues of a SC condition and I am hoping I will be able to be seen either by my PCP or their NP, so I can get any tests, CT, Xrays, MRI, or a nerve conduction test, to determine if I did injure my spine is some shape or form.
I was so looking forward to a summer of no new problems, but I guess my body is just to messed up or banged up for anything like that to grace my life with.
Time to lay my weary head down and hope for sleep to overtake me before my body can react to its quiet slumber. LoL
Rockhound Rider
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I take gabapentin, can't say it helps all that much, but my RLS problem at bed time seems much better. If I could hold the hammer without it causing my to hurt more as I grip it, I might be tempted to try hitting alternate big toes to take my mind off my hands. LoL
At least the next few days will keep me indoors due to thunder showers, so I will have some time to give my body time to recouperate before the weather allows me to go outside again to try and do a little more work on my motorcycle and hopefully time to clean my lawnmowers carburator so I can cut down the weed crop in my yard before the weeds dry out and become a fire hazzared. LoL
Rockhound Rider :D
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Was everthing denied in your claim? What was their reason and basis for their denial? If I were you, I would be looking for and IMO on each of your claimed items and don't forget that the IMO Drs must have access and review of all the material the Rater had in their decision.
I'm really interested in their rationale for denying your claim, with what your C&P showed, you should have been awarded for at least one of the conditions and/or both. Not sure about the GAD decision, not enough information to comment on it.
Don't get discurraged, keep looking for evidence to support your claim and keep up to date on all the filing and closing dates.
Rockhound Rider :D
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There is only one big problem I see here. Any time you reopen your claim for what ever reason, it opens the door for the VA to take a look at all your issues, including your 100% PTSD award. I'm not saying not to open new claims, just be aware that it opens the door to all your claimed issues.
I myself have a claim in for secondary issues to a SC one. They have scheduled me for a C&P for these so they can have current information on them and their severity, but they can also at that time evaluate my current SC issue to see if it had remained the same, increased, even though I cannot get a higher percentage per the 38 CFR schedule, and they can also check it for a decrease in sevarity.
I imagine if they wanted to, they could schedule you for a seperate C&P exam for your PTSD to evaluate it's current severity, but if they try to reduce it, don't accept their decision, since one exam can not be used for mental disorders to reduce because they are known to have periods of reduced syptoms, but then return to their previous severity. The VA has to follow a specific guideline when they try to reduce someones percentage award. make sure they follow it to the letter and even if they do, fight it tooth and nail.
Rockhound Rider :D
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Fletch: The VA Rep that called you, was probably the one gathering all the documents an evidence you either provided or told them who and where they could get it from. This is the develpment stage of your claim. once they have everything, at least what they think is everything, then it is handed over to or moved to the Rating stage. Rating stage being a bit of a misnomer, in that they can do any number of things with your claim, they can request a C&P exam or a number of C&P exams, depending on your claim and number of issues you are claiming, they can send your medical evidence with any diagnosises out to get a medical opinion for clairfication, and I'm sure there are a number of other things the Rater can do that has nothing to do with rating your claim, and if they want to and just to slow your claim up a bit, they can ask you for any more evidence you might have in your possesion or hasn't been sent in yet, and like in your VCAA letter ask you if you want more time or to wave any time, making you think if you wave the time it will speed things up. Oh Yea! All this happens after it has sat in a stack of other claims waiting to be rated as well and before any rating is actually done.
You don't say how long your claim has been processing since you submitted it. I had a simple claim worth only 10% and it took nine months to get a decision. I'm told repeatedly by those at the VA that claims run on average of 6 months to a year, which as we all know is not at all how long it takes for the most part, whcih is much longer. This claim I'm working now is already at the nine month mark and I have a C&P exam scheduled for the 19th and for no other reason than my VARO is swamped with claims, my claim was forwarded to the Tiger Team in Cleveland OH and I live near Reno, Nevada.
I guess that means that their getting a lot of new claims from Irac and Afganistan coming through my local VARO and they need the extra help on claims that have been sitting for to long with nothing being done on them.
By the way, best of luck on your claim and I hope it gets done in a timely manner also.
Rockhound Rider :D
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Like most of those here who have had to learn how to do things differently, I am no exception. I am not completely with the use of my legs and manage to get around my single wide mobile adequately enough and hobble around my yard with the aid of a canadian crutch, just so I don't fall flat on my face, which I have managed to do a time or two.
Anyway, the day was nice and I felt good, so I did a bit of work on my motorcycle and then decided to try and tackle starting my lawnmower, an hour or so later and several false starts and breaks to rest and catch my wind, I had to give up. Like me the lawnmower had been sitting around doing nothing for to long and could no longer stay running. Like my lungs, the carburator on the lawnmower needs a good overhaul, but unlike the carburator, my lungs need a whole lot more work and help getting them back, at least, in near good running condition.
When I said we must find a different way to do things, I forgot and tried of course, doing all this as if it were like always and now I am suffering for it. Not only do I find it hard sitting here typeing this, even the movement of my fingers hurt, dispite an added dose of pain meds, which I am aloud at times like this. I've gone an irritated every joint in my body, not to mention the connective tissue to my muscles, if not my muscles as well.
I bring this to all your attention so that as the good weather of spring and summer is upon us, don't find yourself overdoing it like I did, try to work up to more physical things you can do, take your time, rest more often then you think you should and keep yourself hydrated while you keep your Vitamin C and potassium levels up.
I even think my Cat Tom thinks I should take it easy for awhile, he's not pestering me to get up at 06:00 a.m. to fix his can food, settleing for his dry food in his self feeder until I get up later on.
I feel bad about not getting up to feed him when he meows for his morning meal, I miss how he insists on getting me up, it reasures me that all is right and I've made it through another night, not to mention that I know he has made it home after a night out catten around and picking fights with all the other tom cats in the neighborhood. LoL
So all, take it easy on yourselves unlike me and remember, even the slow tortus won in the end.
Rockhound Rider. :D
p.s. any sage home remedies for just the hands, I'd like for those not to hurt as much as the rest of me. LoL
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I had it done once, the AMVET rep that advised me to put in a claim for a NSC pension was fired. I went back looking for him to help me file my claim for increase, but he was gone, fired just because he had to take extra time off, because his wife was quite ill with cancer. I thougt this was a heartless thing to do, but i found his replacement to be as pro Veteran as he had seemed to be.
It's a shame that the good ones are the first to go, but the ones that screw things up with your claim, are praised because the have a high rate of claims closed out.
Rockhound Rider B)
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carlie: Thank you for your suggestion, but I have been there and done that, at great expense at the time. I've been given may options, but each and every one came with side effects that I did not wish to risk happening. It's not that I prefer the alternative for which I deal with now. It is thus far the lesser of side effects for what I have to deal with.
Rockhound Rider B)
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I know this is confusing and my mental capability to explain it goes to part of my problem I guess.
I went to see a neurologist who was a specialist for TBI screening, but at the time this type of screening was limited to those injured in combat from Irac and Afganistan, but he did defer to the psychologist PHD who did my neuropsychological tests with her findings, although I wished he had elaberated more in his progress notes. He did however associate my head aches as Post Traumatic Head aches for which I will be filling a clain under Mirgraines.
It's just that if I win my claim for Post Traumatic Organic Personality disorder, claim as mental disorder as a result of a medical condition (to include personality change due to a medical condition) Then the process of doing so will Rebut the prior diagnosis of a perseonality disorder, inadequate type.
Having Rebutted this prior PD diagnosis, then the Diagnosis was made in error and the diagnosis for which it replaced, shouldn't it be re-instated for rating purposes?
If I use the CUE card using todays evidence, then I will loos all of my EED benefits from 1973/74
I want to do this right, so I can CUE them using 1973/74 evidence and such so as to save my EED. The messed me over back then and now I have the prood, but it can't be used as evidence if I want to keep my EED of 1973/74.
It has taken me 35 plus years now to rebut the PD diagnosis and on principle alone I want them to pay for that error, I don't care so much for the money or how much it might be, I want the VA to recognise the mistake and put it in writing.
Rockhound Rider B)
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In an upcoming claim I am presenting, the major diagnosis for which I am using to claim a current disability, will most certainly rebut a prior diagnosis that was used as an alternative diagnosis in which the VA used to deny my original claim. It's as if I have come full circle on this matter. I will try to spell it out.
1) Original diagnosis while in-service was for an Acute Schizophrenic episode, in remission, noting at the time he had moderate impairment of future social and industrial adaptability/
2) While an impatient hospitalized for the psych problem, I fell, resulting in a Nasal Bone Fracture and minor concussion with EEG findings confirming this fact. more later
3) Submitted first claim to VA in 1973 upon medical and honorable discharge from the service. C&P examiner noted in 1974 that in his opinion I had a personality disorder. This was then used to mean the original diagnosis of a Psychotoc episode was in error and the personality disorder was a correct of it. The VA then denied my claim for a psychiatric problem, claiming it was instead a personality disorder and not subject to compensation.
4) Back to the broken nose and concussion. the broken nose was rated at 0%, and the concussion that resulted from it was denied, saying nothing was seen on last exam, not even commenting on the continued EEG findings while in-service and they didn't even give me another EEG test to confirm or deny the continued abnormal findings.
5) First reopen claim in 1979 with a mental health summery report from a county mental health facility that stated in that they found the personality diagnosis as questionalble. Of course this claim to reinstate the original diagnosis was summerialy denied, no C&P given, even though I had made a request.
6) Here is the kicker, current findings along with all the previous evidence helping to suppor this, found that instead of a personality disorder, I suffered instead, a Post Traumatic Organic Personality Disorder in the form of a Mental disorder due to a medical condition, ( to include a personality change due to a medical condition)
This final findings in (6) rebuts the personality disorder when the neuropsychological tests supported by my past exams and tests was found in error and state in the current finding that if I did have a personality disorder, it was more likely that I had an Post Traumatic Organic Personality Disoder due to the in-service head injury with a concussion showing frontal lobe brain injuey. It is further shown that at no time was this person diagnosed or otherwise shown to have had a personality disorder, documented by personal and in-service personel records, and/or medical records, prior to the head injury he suffered while in the service and after his psychotic episode.
Rebutting a prior diagnosis is big time for me, but in doing so, the question is how to use it with out right calling it CUE. It is very much implied with the rebutted diagnosis, but I'm sure the the CUE issue is going to come up and they may stall my whole claim up for that reasoning alone. The VARO does not like to mess with CUE claims or anything that smacks of it and they will probably denie my claim and make me take it to the BVA, further delaying my claim, which I feel is amply support and should be approved on its merits alone.
Am I crying over spilt mile before it spills or am I looking at a can of worms that was left open for all of them to excape?
Rockhound Rider B)
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Iwould say yes, to revisiting other SC conditions, but unless they bring it up, don't say anything, except if they are the result of your condition they are examining. Then the same applies, your worst day senario.
Best of luck
RR B)
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gdsnide: Don't forget the thank the nice person (Eric_M) Just funning with you, but their seems to be a lack of appreciation being high lighted when peoples questions and such are answered with correct and/or worth while information.
Manners seem to be one of the civilized traits we all should have, when dealing with an intiaty such as the VA and their Bee Hive mentality. I use Bees as and acknowledgy, because the VA employee treats a Veterans claim as if it is honey and protected from us getting any of the honey even when we have a right to some of it We are intitled to our share of the honey whe you think of us as expendable bees int the whole skeem of a bee hive. We once as Veterans gave something and some gave all, in the protection of the Hive, the USA. so yes, we are in titled to a percentage as compensation for our efforts that caised our illnesses and/or injuries.
Rocklhound Rider B)
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Eric M: This is pretty much SOP for the VA. If your last C&P or your medical information is out dated, the VA being the one to say what is and what isn't outdated, they will schedule a C&P exam. They can order one, just of principle, when you apply for an increase, to evaluate for themselves if an increase is in order.
Besides all this, it is one of the legal ways in which they can delay your claim, hoping you will be a no show for the exam, so they then can deny the claim, but the one thing you have to be careful with, is that they can also use the information is such a way to low ball, making a currection in the severity from what it is now, to as much as classify it even at 0%, if they thought they couldget away with it. In your case, that may a bit difficult but not an impossibility with the way the VA messes things up.
In my case, I'm glad that I got some much needed help from my sympathetic PCP documenting my condition in my favor, showing it to be chronic. Now the VA will have to have more than a one exam to show that my condition is not chronic. It could be that my condition was at a low point and not showing it as severe as it usually is.
Don't fret over it too much, if need be, have someone look up your condition in the C&P exam work sheeta, to let you know what you may expect during the exam.
ABOVE ALL ELSE WHEN THE ASK YOU HOW YOU ARE OR HOW YOU FEEL, "DON'T" AND i CAN'T EXPRESS THIS TO MUCH. DON'T SAY THINGS OR YOU ARE OK, FINE, DOING WELL, ETC. ETC. ETC.
tHE EXAMINER WILL USE THAT IN MORE WAYS THAN YOU CAN THINK OF TO MAKE HIS REPORT IN WAYS THAT ARE NOT HELPFULL TO YOUR CLAIM ACTION. SORRY! for yelling electronically.
Good luck and let us know how things go and don't forget to pick up a copy of the exam report, I'm told it takes a few days to show up on the computors so the records office can access it. If you find anything in the report that is blatantly untrue or they miss quoted what you said, make sure you document it and in some way get it into the claims record so hopefully the VA will have to review your C&P in its true light or have it done over clarifying what you descented against. I have never seen it done at the VARO level, but I have at the BVA level.
Good luck and hoping the best on your C&P exam.
Rockhound Rider B)
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I wish they would work in my situation, my scars although small, are being constantly being irritated you might say, because of my glasses, needing to ware them for the simplest tasks. I have severe stigmatiziom and without them I can't function very well.
When I fractured my nasal bone, it left irregular ridges under the tissue that the bridge of my glasses ride, which is, like I said, a constant irritation that has ulceration the skin at times, creating these painful scars I speak of.
Short some fancy plastic surgery to smooth out the boney ridges, I feel there is not much that can be done and I'm not to keen on this type of surgery, I could end up having a nose like Michael Jackson. I've tried several devices to cushion the area from the effect of my glasses, but with only very limited success with pads that won/t stay on or end place making them a constant irritation of a different sort.
Thanks for the tip on the tape, I'll ask my PCP about it, to see if it would do me any good, anything is worth a shot, cause once these scar become inflamed and ulcerate, the pain triggers a headache and the headaache triggers a migraine and that in and of itself, puts me in a rotten mood cause even with my migraine meds, I end up lying in paid wishing, hoping, and praying the migraine will go away.
At least I don't have to worry then about my glasses causing any problems, I don't ware them to bed. LoL if I could but the laughter hurts to much at that time.
Rockhound Rider B)
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While putting together the Evidence and Letter in Support of Claim, I tried to begin with, was to put each page in a protective transparent insertable plastic cover, putting each page back to back when possible to help keep the number of covers to a minimum.
I did start by putting these protected pages in a plastic folder, but it soon became apparent that the folder would not have the copacity to hold all the pages with the plastic covers and I went to a hard bound binder, which appears to be large enough so far, if need I could go to a larger binder, but a hard bound binder with plastic page inserts seems like something the VA would not like to receive and would probably trash the binder or use it for something else after removing the pages and the protective page covers.
How have those of you who have had a claim with many pages to it, that ends up being to thick to staple, present your claim when you file it with the VARO?
Rockhound Rider B) ? ? ?
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IMHO, which isn't worth a P**s in the grand scheme of things, but here goes.
I don't mind have a teared system, if that system has to provide limited services, using limited funds.
1) SC war time, In combat zone.
2) SC war time, outside combat zone
3) NSC war time
4) NSC not during war time.
5) All others.
It should not matter the when the war took place or where, but a Veteran in combat, to me deserves a bit of preference, and so on down the list.
But, and here is the big BUT. Like Purple stated, " A VET, IS A VET, IS A VET, IS A VET."
The VA should be fully funded, fully staffed, and fully trained and Veterans being treated at any VA medical facility should be respected and treated by a fully credentialed DR. and not some 90 day wonder Nurse Practitioner. A Nurse Practitioner is OK for screening purposes, but not for Diagnosing illness and/or injuries or for doing such examinations as C&P's when the Veterans benefits are at stake.
I'm also tired of being a ping pong ball, bouncing from one Intern to another without actually ever seeing the Dr who is over seeing their work. Also having to explain my whole medical history over and over and over again, because the interns do not take or have the time to read and/or research your whole history, espeically like some of us who have histories that go back 35 years and even more for those left from WWII and Korea.
Why is their mention of a tear anyway, you get an appointment when their is an opening, whcih if your lucky, is three to six months from now. Getting one sooner is a crap shoot, but sometimes it's well worth the role of the dice, unless you want to take your chances with any of the under staffed, under trained, under equipt Emergency Rooms at a VA Hospital.
Sorry guys this is a sour pill for me, It angers me to no end how the VA likes to pit one era of Vets against another, when like us sailors like to say, we're all in the same boat and we all have to deal in our own way with the pitfalls of the VA system, no matter how old or new a Veteran we are.
I'm too tired to sleep and my meds are taking their time kicking in. Why I should feel this way confounds me, since I get pretty good treatment, for the most part, at my VA hospital, it's those S*B's at the VARO that my anger is directed at.
I guess I have vented enough and probably made even less sense, so I'll stop and let the next person do a little venting on this subject.
Rockhound Rider
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C&p Exam Results Not Good
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Re-read it and it didn't change any, less likey than (less than 50/50 related to SC nasal fracture and deviated septum)
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