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Ladybug

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  • Birthday 01/09/1968

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    Indiana

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  • Service Connected Disability
    100%
  • Branch of Service
    Navy

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  1. Thanks guys!! Just looking forward to having the north wall of my house put back together because I don't like looking at siding from the inside of my bedroom and its easier to stand on the floor when there is one. Been friggen waiting on the income so they can move my bed out of the dining room. Hardship claim for IU in 9 months, 4 of which I had raw sewage coming in every day. Whew...I made it through another war....
  2. 100% IU with no furth exams! Thanks for all of your support. Peace!
  3. I concur, in most cases the generic can be significantly different and I can tell immediately. I just look up the pill on the pill identifier site I listed and it will say whether it is generic or not, who the manufacturer is and country. Records checker at the VARO...hehehehe
  4. I'm just glad after years of being a guinea pig to the VA's experiments that I'm down to one. I suffer less if I suffer more, is how its worked for me. The side effects were worse for me than just dealing with the pain, etc. I am fortunate that I have anxiety relating to pain and not other types of psychological issues, but I do have to keep my environment mellow and now that I don't have to force my body to go to work I can stay in when i'm freaking out and the world doesn't push my buttons. My dog helps me by signalling me to lay down~go to bed if I'm getting stressed. My pains are incurable and untreatable so the pain meds haven't worked for me and usually gave me migraines anyway. I feel like I will make it longer in life without all of the chemicals, but thats just what works for me. I hope they don't experiment with you too much and hopefully you will be able to convince them that isn't the best route. I've gone in with clinical trial research and they have gone along with that~One in particular worked great but unfortunately the pill was uncoated and my stomach couldn't handle it for long. (Parkinsons medication for fibromyalgia) To stay in the tone of this thread ... I have had name brand pills that weren't generic from the VA, but mostly uncoated generic pills were prescribed. The "allowed" medication varies from VAMC to VAMC so what one hospital prescribes another may not. I do believe that they change where they get stuff from because one year I get one drug and a few years later that one you can only get after you go through a few similar ones without success first. That's just allergy meds. I have so many more examples, being a guinea pig for a while.
  5. I'm surprised that the drug interaction checker in the VA software didn't pop a drug interaction. There have been many times at that a doctor went to put a drug order in for me and the computer spit back out that they couldn't because of potential interaction....maybe they just used the override option. Interesting article from the American Journal about the VAMC overrides of drug interraction checker: http://www.ajmc.com/Article.cfm?ID=4380
  6. I have found http://www.onlinedrugtest.info/reference/ as a good reference site on the manufacturer of any meds I'm taking. Using my link below from www.drugs.com will confirm the shape and markings for the pill as well as list the manufacturer and country then you can go to the above site and get more information. You can go to the FDA site and see any current updates on these meds as well. Hope this helps
  7. I have looked them up on RXLIST.com and www.drugs.com/pill_identification.html for more information.
  8. As soon as the new income kicks in I will be investing in my own Hadit apparel...I'm going to have to get something for snow weather...I saw my first flurries today.
  9. As far as MRI's and films, sometimes they can give you a DVD (only works on PC not MAC without a virtual or rosetta). Release of Information (at VAMC's) may mail you your copies depending on how much printing is involved. I have scanned my hard copies in as PDF's so that I can search through easier and then I can organize the information as needed for other doctors and to help my cognitive crippled-ness look better. If you're really bored you can make Excell spreadsheets too and link the PDF's so they can be sorted by doctor, date, type of boo-boo, vaccinations, etc.... There is also software available that allows you to journal every day of your medical woes so all of the above mentioned thinking doesn't have to be done and the new doctors don't get overwhelmed with TMI. I have had hundreds of pages printed by the Release of Information department at VAMC's and none of it should ever be charged.
  10. Not sure where to post this question. I filled out my VARO ratings for the regional offices I have worked with. I think it's a great idea to have these surveys. I would like to see a survey for the VAMC's. I've dealt with many VSO's as well but the VSO survey only allows for one per person. Will we be able to critic all of the people we deal with during these processes? As a side note...I would love to put Hadit material in the waiting rooms at VAMCs..heehee
  11. I was going to file a tort claim against a physician at St. Pete Bay Pines myself, but was too busy trying to keep my SS and SC claims above water. I'm not surprised to hear about this.
  12. Foggy brain today...So it could go either way I guess. I will be sure to post what happens...any day now they say. Thank you for your input!
  13. Congrats and good luck with the future! Every day is a blessing.
  14. This might be a simple question. I was granted 70% SC in March 2008. My original claim went back to 2002. My POA suggested that I file for IU in March 2008 when my SC claim completed, I did, and apparently it has been approved (she said it looked PT as well) and I'm just waiting for the button to get pushed that sends me the letter and the paycheck changes. My first award with the VA was back in 2003 when I was given 100% IU pension and I stayed on that pension until my SC income was changed this year (When SC began exceeding the amount of pension). I'm being told that my IU claim will only back pay me to March of 2008 of this year (the date I asked for IU). Why isn't it going back to 2002 like everything else did? I asked for IU because i have been IU since 2003...all of my records, VA and medical prove this beyond a shadow of a doubt.
  15. You can put Mare Island California on the list. BRAC 1993. lead, pcb's from 150 year old nuclear sub base. http://' target="_blank"> A–124 Size: 5,252 acres Mission: Maintained and repaired ships and provided logistical support for assigned ship and service craft HRS Score: NA IAG Status: Federal Facility Agreement signed in September 1992 Contaminants: Heavy metals, VOCs, PCBs, pesticides, petroleum hydrocarbons, lead oxides, and unexploded ordnance Media Affected: Groundwater, surface water, sediment, and soil Funding to Date: $51.2 million Estimated Cost to Completion (Completion Year): $84.5 million (FY2007)
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