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  1. Thanks for the encouragement last year...Got my 100 T&P a couple weeks ago.....could not get on here to post it... They said my app for unemployability was mute since i was 100 T&P...guess that is better than unemployability anyway, right? backdated to dec 04..not bad. thanks all...t
  2. Looking for a software prog to keep a daily diary of my disabilities and how each does each day and when episodes/multiple episodes happen...mainly a medical diary..I suppose a regular e diary would do, but was wondering if anyone had any medical specific daily diary software recommendations? thanks..t
  3. i see a private doctor for most things, but I have fibro, but have had headaches and migraines in the service, but due to many falls over the last 15 years, because of the knees giving or locking and many of those times hitting my head on the floor or whatever(hit a rock last year and knocked me out), the tension headaches are just about everyday and the migraines 3-8 a mo. so would assume the increas in migraines is due to hitting the head on the floor and stuff on falls. I just started topomax. so don't know how it will work. is the torodol all you use when you get one? is it only in shot form? thanks..t
  4. thanks, no have not tried it...have osteoarthritis and stuff in knees ankles and joints, migraines et. tried percoset and it did not work well tried morphine sul(whatever the sul is) did not work too well, now on oxycontin and oxycodone...but va wants to put me on morphine or methadone. My dosage of oxycodone is not high enough now and after the fight to get them to give it to me,(my private doc has me on it for 2 yrs now) they agreed finally recently, I am afraid to ask for increase and wondered if either of the other 2 were as strong or worked as well....I still will have to buy oxycontin outside tho. On the migraines zomig did not work for me, I currently buy the Relpax outside that works good..but va does not have it. So does Va have anything stronger than zomig that will work.... I have a high tolerance to medication..always have....they gave me a chunk of valium for an mri last year..pretty big one and it never had any affect on me whatsoever...t
  5. last winter, dec had xray on hips at local va hosp..radiology report said moderate djd in both. 2 mos. ago, same thing, same place, now it is mild/minimial djd 3 days ago for my p&d I go to a civilian hospital here and have both xrayed and guess what? I AM HEALED!!!hahahh.....no radiography in one hip and none to minimial djd in the other... So now djd heals? I know there is a small diff in the way one person interperates xrays, as opposed to another, but this much difference???? I have probs with the hips.. Any thoughts on how an RO will approach such a thing? I have limited ROM in both hips. Do the RO's REALLY pull up your local va hosp records and read them? If so will he try to use the civilian hospital's to turn mmy claim down? ANy advice? There is a radiology lab here and that is all they do..not a part of a hospital, should I get them to xray them?..thanks..t
  6. hey thanks for the link..just registered and it has all mine..only downside is it is by number..does not tell me the name...but thanks for the link..quick way to refill..t
  7. Thanks Pete...My insurance BCBS pays most of the cost, you would think VA would fee base the copay. Another question..if my local va does not have something is it possible another would or does va have a central prescription mail thing like some insurance companies? thanks..t
  8. One of the meds I take for CFS is Provigil..it is expensive and hard for insurance to approve. VA does not carry Provigil. Is there another replacement drug that VA does have that works as well as Provigil? Same with Celebrex...What is VA's version of Celebrex? Anyone out there take Relpax for migraines? Works pretty decent for me...VA again does not have it so tried Zomig, did not work too well. Does VA have a stronger Migraine medicine than Zomig or should I just ask for higher dose? I had to retire from USPS, so I need to get all of my meds I can from VA, until VA upgrades me or IU..thanks..t
  9. oxycodone, morphine, or methadone? I take oxycodone, 15 mg 4 x day as needed with 20 mg oxycontin 4 x a day. the 15 mg for 1.5 yr now, and is not working as well...dosage needs to be upped.. onlly prob is I just went thru hell to get the oxycodone to be issued by va last month..they wanted me to use methadone. I use a private doctor outside VA and see her once a month...and she does my meds and I take them to the va doc to fill. If they are all three about the same then I may talk my private doc into methadone and make va happy....they already provide 8 of my meds. I have also tried morphine sul...what is the diff between it and just morphine? thanks..t
  10. i am on zoloft and wellbutrin....work ok...zoloft tho makes vision blurry at first..t
  11. my c and p was done all the times by a local doctor..internal medicine, thru qtc. Most of you seem to be going to your VA district medical center and having a va doc do it. Should I be requesting to have a va doc do it? Because as noted the doc i go to here locally just goes quickly thru a checklist for ROM and obvious stuff...in the joints never asking or checking for weakness or ease of fatigue and so on.....is a va more thorough and/or better? thanks..t
  12. sort of off topic and on..Berta please jump in with advice if any or help. First, Elmer, is DVA=DAV? My claims are thru DAV too if that is what dva is. I was not aware that DAV rewrote paperwork...all mine that I submitted to VA thru dav, was given to va that way, in fact they just took my papers and gave them to va as they got them. Am i missing something? Was DAV supposed to redo my writeup and submit it initially? I know what you mean on your neck elmer. Right now my SC is the knees and ankles..and the cervical is one of the things I am trying to get as residual from the numerous falls over the years from knees giving or locking, and hitting head on the floor and things and whiplash from many falls. xray and mri show mild djd and significant narrowing of the foraminal whatever in there. Don't know how hard that will be to get connected, but I certainly know the pain you have..it is terrible many days. I take oxycontin and oxycodone for the knees and all of the pain. My doctor is writing a letter to state the likely as not caused by the falls and whiplash, so hopefully..but I wish you luck. I don't know what all those things are you have as technical terms and what Berta called them but I know that there are many times that the nerves and things up the back of my neck literally are agonzing..10 on the scale is not high enough and then the joint another story in itself....t
  13. Hi, I understand that a 50% SC vet is entitled to get all their prescription medications filled at no cost. What happens if the VA facility does not have a particular medication? Do we lose the entitlement to that particular med? Or is there a way for us to get VA to fee base out for that med? thanks..t
  14. hi Fla. Please forgive me, but I am new to the mental portion of all this and have no idea of what you mean? what is a DSM4? My diagnosis is depression/anxiety secondary to sc condtions w/ passive suicidal ideations, some symptoms of PTSD. So What does that mean in conjunction with what you said? thanks..t this is a civilian psych, so i will definitely give her the diagnosis letter from my psychologist, and a 4 page letter I wrote of how it points to each thing tho..t
  15. thanks..no did not ask for a copy....figured i was pushing it talking him into an extra 10 degrees...and when he said that they send him a letter that he is not allowed to discuss the numbers and ROM's with the patient, i figured it best not to push the issue. But for having 10 or 11 things he went thru it fast... Just what he said at the end bugged me about him saying that it was hard to impossible for him to diagnose all of the things... but surely he will finish his form and send it in instead of sending a note saying he could not evaluate anything, to find someone else or a specialist also he was frustrated because with fibro everytime he touched me i flinched and it was hard for him to tell diff between the actual joint pain and the fibro...fibro is not service connected, that may hurt...but i am hoping to get it connected to the traumatic injury originally to the knees and when they were to do arthroscopic surg on one i had an allergic reaction and almost died. ...t but him giving me the 10 may have been guilt too, I asked him when i first went in how i can prove to va that I have bilateral knee instability and he did not know and asked why..i told him when i saw him 3 years ago that they took it away from me, and i was wondering if the drawers test was the only way they judged....he did not know but apologized all the way thru the exam saying he hoped he did not put anything down to get it taken away...t
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