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Pete53, Berta, Bound4heaven, Evenflow... Thanks! Merry Christmas.

I will just let things cool off for now.

Sorry for the long time between posts. So it is done......................

okay here it is in short order: it was it changed it is again.

I want to thank all of you for your words of encouragement and ideas for maintaining that which is already mine.

a rock and a hard place!

Pete, I have contacted my local reps and the battle field prep is being worked as I type.

I was just informed a letter is in the mail to inform me that the VA is proposing to reduce my rating !!!!!! *(&(*&(*^*&%*&^*@@$#@$!!!!! Oh and now comes the endles BS while trying to resolve this and oh how quick will they respond to cut off the dependent benefits while still paying so there will be a NO PAY DUE issue right at Christmas!!!! Oh the fun never stops!!!!!!

I have just been notified my 100% P&T is proposeed to be be reduced!!!!!!!! This is based on a C&P where the interviewer told me verbatium that the pain free range of motion was not an issue----- only total range of movement!!! Slightly stessed now!

Nebraska does.

I just thought I would drop in and pass the latest news. While I was awarded the schedular 100% with P&T in early 06 I just went through a C&P exam for my knee. Seems that when I had an increase in the rating on the knee they wanted to take a look at the 3 yr point and voila there I was in the exam. Does seem strange at one level, but then again it is the VA and that is the way things are done. I hope the results of the exam don't change my Permament and Total rating. I know it can be changed at any time in the first 10 years but what a bummer it would be if it were, you wife & daughter on the Chap 35 benefits etc......

Soldier, I have asthma and have a 30% rating. My rating was based on the need for daily Advair and Singulair to control symptoms. Still have difficulty breathing, especially in moldy, damp, and cold weather ares. pulmonary Function Studies showed FEV-1 to be 93 percent predicted and fev-1/FVC to be 74 percent predicted. The interpretation shows mild airway obstruction with significant improvement after bronchodilators..... For and evaluation fo 30%: "for forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV-1) of 56-70 percent of predicted value; or .... (FEV1/FVC) of 56 to 70 %......or daily inhalational or oral bronchodilator therapy: or inhalational anti-inflammatory medications. A higher rating of 60% is not warranted unless there is FEV-1 of 40 to 55 percent predicted; or FEV-1/FVC or 40 to 55 percent: or at least monthly visits to a physician for required care of exacerbations; or intermettent ( at least thre per year) courses of systemc (oral or parenteral) corticosteroids. Mine is basically because of the daily meds I have to take. In my record is a letter from the Allery doc and the pulmonary clinic on how the "refused" to give me a histamin challange test as I had over a 25% change in FEV-1 with a bronchodialator..... i.e. they might have killed me by inducing an asthma attack. This is strait from my award letter, on the Blue sheets. Hope it helps.

Okay have to slow it down a bit I had the claim in for Raynauds in with mutliple other claims. I have always been told I would have a reexamination of my knee, which is at 30%. I have dropped the claim for raynauds and will just have to deal with the one for the knee, which is NOT better! Will let you all know.

Well it has been two years and I have finally hit the proverbial snag. I have been very fortunate to date and only relate this as a status update to those who have followed. I signed the paperwork today to withdraw my appeal for Raynauds Syndrome. Bottom line is while it is believed I have the condition there is no diagnosis in my record. As I am 100% P&T there is little to be gained. I will work on getting a diagnosis and then submit a new claim based on the "new" diagnosis and take it from there. At worst I will claim it as a secondary to an existing condition and see what sticks to the wall:) Oh am a bit currious how I have a scheduled examination but am P&T, but understand it is not really P&T unitll you have been in that statust for something like 20+ years or certain age. In any event all is well.

suppose the program has has changed