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PE1

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  1. I'm still active duty but retiring next year. I don't have any % yet. I don't have PTSD. Just wanted to know if someone is rated 100% for a physical condition, could they still work as a teacher or at the VA pushing paper. I know that I would be very helpful, that I would do anything I could for another Veteran. Every time I talk to some one senior to me that was a Vet, I know that I'm just a little winnie. I've talked with Vets from Normandy, Iwojima and VietNam and I know that there's nothing I've done that remotely compares. I have alot of respect for my seniors. I just wish I could help in some way.

  2. Thank you for your advise. I'm in a good position right now. I retire in 244 days. So I still have time to make the claims more solid. I'm putting an actual diagnosis for each claim. Each claim will have at least 2 different specialists saying that the diagnosis is because of such and such an event. Not claiming "neck pain" but Intervertebral Disc Syndrome or Degenerative Disc Disease at C5-6. I have labs, x-rays and MRIs for each complaint. I have notes for the past 20 years. I sucked it up for the first 6 years so I don't have any sick call notes. I'll retire with 26 yrs. Each complaint has a diagnosis rated by the CFR38. I will number each page 1 of 30, 2 of 30, etc. I'm only claiming chronic complaints. The Majority of the complaints are from Airborne operations, I have my jump log, was on jumping status for 6 years, and I have the ER visit from a bad jump. The Dr wrote that I was abnesic and that the neck x-ray was a "wet read" which means that it was read right away. He actually just looked at it using the ceiling lights (also known as the malpractice light). I have the ER notes from when I was told that all I had was viral gastroenteritis but turned out to be a ruptured appendix. Have all the surgical reports and inpatient records. I made 4 complete copies of everything. I haven't done the retirement physical yet but everything will be written in it. I'm only claiming diagnosis that are service connected, are chronic and still present. Each claim has proof: x-rays and MRI findings, or abnormal laboratory values. I've been doing all this after I've been reading your posts, your advise and your experience. Thank you very much. I know I still have much to learn

  3. A good detailed physical exam on somebody with chronic problems cannot be done correctly in an hour, specially if the examiner has to look up every single test. Does the examiner hand write the findings and history or does the examiner type it into a computer?

  4. After reading many of the posts in this forum, I want to work at the VA. I really don't like the way you're being treated. If I get fired so what. I can get another job before sundown. Who does the C&P physicals? Doctors or PAs? So, to make it clear to me, your ratings are based on the C&P physical exam correct? Not on your retirement physical. And after the C&P exam, no one else is involved in raising or lowering your rating? It seems to me that the person performing the physical exam is short on time, doesn't have all the evidence handy and has to go fishing for all the supporting information. It's already difficult and time consuming to ask the patient what's wrong. Some patients say: "my back hurts". ok, for how long? "a while" what did the specialist say you have? "I don't know, it's in my records". But if the patient shows up with every pertinent information up front, who, what where, when, how many, how do you know, then it's easier and less time consuming. I was told that the C&P exam can take along time depending on how many complaints you have. Is that true? A secreatary said that if the patient needs 4 hours for his visit then they schedule a 4 hr exam. Is that true?

  5. I've never heard of a machine or cuff that did all that. Unless if you take the office BP cuff that takes the BP automatically every 15 or 30 minutes. And then you wear it around the house all day. The machine has to have a roll of paper in it. It can be done that way. But everywhere else you do a 5 day blood pressure check. You go to the clinic and sit for 20 minutes, then a medic takes you BP and writes it down. You go see the DR when you're done and he averages it out. But I like the idea of taking the BP machine home for 24 hours. Pull the stand around the house. It would give the true BP.

  6. I'm claiming those two conditions atributed to a ruptured appendectomy in 1998 and gallbladder removal in 2000. I have a note from 3 gastroenterologists and 2 urologists in my service record. But, if the frequency of trips to the bathroom for both conditions is less once you are on medication, does the VA still gives you the rating based on how many trips to the bathroom before medication or after medication?

    7319 Irritable colon syndrome (spastic colitis, mucous colitis, etc.):

    Severe; diarrhea, or alternating diarrhea and constipation, 30

    with more or less constant abdominal distress................

    Moderate; frequent episodes of bowel disturbance with 10

    abdominal distress...........................................

    Mild; disturbances of bowel function with occasional episodes 0

    of abdominal distress........................................

    Urinary frequency:

    Daytime voiding interval less than one hour, or; awakening 40

    to void five or more times per night............................

    Daytime voiding interval between one and two hours, or; 20

    awakening to void three to four times per night..............

    Daytime voiding interval between two and three hours, or; 10

    awakening to void two times per night........................

    Vesicare is an anticholinergic and works really well. Can sit through an entire movie at the movie theater. Vesicare is anew drug. So if I take it and the symptoms are less does the VA rate it lower? Because if I don't take it, then it's very frequent.

  7. I'm also claiming Hypertension 7101. I also take medication to control it. I have 9 years of notes in the service record. I've had several Diastolic readings over 100 and several Systolic readings over 160. But only while I'm not taking the medication. Will it be rated as 10%?

    Does the blood pressure have to be over 160/100 even on medication?

  8. I'm going to claim Diabetes Mellitus 7913. I take Glucophage to control it. Rating should be 20%. It's well controlled. I have 8 years worth of notes in my service record. I'll retire with 20 years active duty. I can still claim Diabetes right? I can't atribute it to agent orange or any chemical exposure. Am I correct in that as long as DM was diagnosed during active duty then I can claim it?

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