Like the new site.
I have Physical in one week for a bunch of things I have listed, some secondary to current disabilities in knees and ankles and an increase in the knees. I had to retire from usps in AUg, and my dr is writing a letter that due to the disability in my knees and ankles I cannot maitain a job, etc, etc..
Only prob is I am 50 percent. So trying to get it upped with this other stuff that I should have filed for years ago, but put off saying I would file when it came time to retire.
I have been also diagnosed with depression/anxiety secondary to the current disabilities...with suicidal ideaologies. is that worth anything and is there a reference to read about it?
Any advice on filling out the QTC forms? Will they give me a new set, I messed up the ones I got....have to white out. Dont suppose there is access to these forms on the net?
MY physical is with a local dr. who is usually in a hurry to rush you thru and last time I went, I was told that he would write pretty much what you told him or wanted him to, he really does this lightly......when we were adding my ankles last time, he told me it looked like they wanted to give me those joints as secondary and i said ok and he did. So how much does his report count? My personal doctor will be writing a letter to show as likely as not several things are secondary and some are service related after 15 years.
I can list the things if needed, I have researched and researched each thing.
Another question. I had an xray in dec of last yr and said mild to moderate djd, now last month the xray shows mild djd...so how did it go from mild to mod to mild..these were all by the va. Have a lot of probs with the si joint and lower back...mri last month showed either a protusion or a rotary tear in one of my lower disc things. That protrusion won't show on the xray they send me to for this physical as they don't do mri, this mri was done by va, so will they automatically see it or will i need to bring it to their attention?
On the QTC forms they ask about how many times bedrest a year...for each my knees and ankles are a combination, one goes, usually all go, yet they want me to put how much bedrest a year for each knee and each ankle..sheez how to I do that one?
Another thing, I have been diagnosed with fibromyalgia and we traced it back to 88 when I injured my knee originally and almost died on the operating table at the start of arthroscopic surgery. I had no idea then or thru the years what fibro was until 2 years ago when I started seeing a dr and she diagnosed it. THo I did not put Fibro in as a condition I put several things that are symptoms, i.e. IBS, CFS, migraines and so forth, individually. My DAV rep said not to worry about putting fibro in now, because of the 22 or 23 things i have in they could prob be grouped into 3 or 4 major things, i.e. those symptoms 4 or 5 could be grouped as fibro...if this is true then who will name them as fibro if i have not put them in as fibro? VA?
If a list of things is needed i will post..thanks all...t