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goofycow

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    Halp!1

    in VA Disability Claims Research

    Posted

    Can the regional office change a veteran's unemployability status from unemployable to employable without any notice or a new C&P exam? I just got a letter fm the Little Rock office concerning property taxes and the like. And between last year and this, I changed from unemployablble to employable. Now ain't that a hoot?? :)

    Liz

    After My Colonoscopy...

    in Medication – Prescription Drugs-Health Issues

    Posted

    It does sound like the staff gave you too much joy juice. Hope you get back to feeling normal soon. The VA eye clinic has suggested I go for cataract surgury. But theym don't want me drivving the first day or to be alone the first day/night after the procedure. I get blank stares when I tell them I live alone & have no friends. I am even tempted to give up gettting primary care fm VA & trying my luck in the private sector.

    But seriously, hope you feel better soon & that they didn't find anything "funny"

    Mirtazapine

    in Medication – Prescription Drugs-Health Issues

    Posted

    This last week I finally got to see a new mental health care provider. In adittion to all the other meds I'm on, she put me on this new med mirtazapine for sleep & pain, etc. She told me I might feel hung over the next morning. And boy, she was NOT lying. Talk about a buzz on!!!! I would not recommend drinking while taking this med! Anyone else on it?????

    Liz

    Fayetteville Ark Vamc

    in Medication – Prescription Drugs-Health Issues

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    Jim: Thanks for the link to the handbook. I have printed a copy. I am not the favorite patient there at the VAMC Fayetteville. They just hate it when I politely ask for my rights and the care I deserve. I think in this case the misers just don't want to spend the money. Plus they hope I just crawl under a rock and die. Since going to mental health there, I have turned into an alcoholic. Except for my weekly trips to the liquor store and grocery store, I spend the other 6 days at home alone, my only companions being my 3 cats. I think mental health is aware of my living situation and social isolation. On the other hand, they probably think I am just making everything up. i think the VAMC has social workers but i have never seen one face to face. i talked to one on the telephone once but she had a worse attitude than I do :rolleyes:

    Thanks for letting me vent guys & gals.

    .

    Liz

    goofy,

    http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPub....asp?pub_ID=414

    Go here and read the handbook. Download and print it (about 16 pages). You want to read the very last page, A-2. Paragraphs h. and i.

    Post any further questions.

    Fayetteville Ark Vamc

    in Medication – Prescription Drugs-Health Issues

    Posted

    I also use the Fayetteville, AR VAMC. It sucks but you could have it worse. You could be going to the Fort Smith AR VA. I agree with you. They only want to give out the cheap stuff. To treat my fibro & joint pain, my PCP makes me take 2400 mg of ibruprofin a day. I have continuously complained about stomach pain. Prilosec OTC helps a lot.

    Now I am told by my eye doc I need cataract surgury in my left eye ASAP. VA will pay to have the surgury done "outside" at select clinics. But I live alone and the DAV van doesn't cover my area. Plus i live alone & have no one to take care of me. The VA hospital won't let me stay there overnight. VA just expects me to stay in a motel......They won't pay for my room either. Ain't life sweet????? :rolleyes:

    Visit With Primary Care

    in Medication – Prescription Drugs-Health Issues

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    Those of you that know me know that I don't sign on very often except to whine. I lost my only brother late Oct, so now I have no family and no friends. Most of my disability is for major depressive disorder but I am also IU.

    For some reason, VA seems very reluctant to do anything about my arhritus(sp) and fibro. Yesterday when I went to my primary care provider I was hurting mentally & physically. The primary care person told me she could do nothing for my joint pain & was sorry that I was hurting. When I told her I was "ready to go" and tired of living. she basically told me that she was sorry I felt that way. End of visit. They will see me again in a year.

    For that I drove 3 hr round trip and used a quarter of a tank of gas. I left with the feeling my life met nothing to them, but then I state the obvious. Think of the boat load of cash the govt. would save once I croak! :lol:

    Another Bad News Email For Va

    in VA Disability Claims Research

    Posted

    Now for my opinion. It is obvious, at least to me, that our fine government leaders do not give a rotund rat's rump about veterans. They don't want to be bothered with all the messy details. Both political parties are just as bad.

    Here in Arkansas, they still use the personality disorder for female vets with any type of mental disorder. Heck, maybe they do it to the male vets too.

    Liz

    Minn Disabled Veterans

    in VA Disability Claims Research

    Posted

    COOL BEANS!!!!!! I lived & worked in Minn for 3 years but moved back to Arkansas after I lost my job because Minn is a pretty high tax state. i also actually won my claim for 100% P & T for TDIU in Minn. Maybe i will give that state another look :lol: Arkansas also has personal & property tax exemption for 100% P & T vets.

    Liz

    Office Of The Medical Inspector

    in VA Disability Claims Research

    Posted

    I have a question about the Office of the Medical Inspector. I read on another vet group board that OMI (for short) might be interested in mistreatment received at a VAMC. I am still terribly P.O.ed about the way I was treated at a mental clinic outpatient clinic immediately following my husband's death. My congress people didn't get involved; they just believed the platitudes fed to them by VA. Sound familiar??

    Has anyone on this board even heard of this office? If so, could I air my complaint there? Would they give a $#it?

    Thanks

    Liz

    Fibromyalgia

    in Medication – Prescription Drugs-Health Issues

    Posted

    The pain in my back and joints was driving me so crazy that I requested to go to a new primary care person at the Fayetteville, AR VA. Why won't VA mental health make the connection between pain & depression??? At least my clinic won't.

    Now it turns out that I probably have fibromyalgia. Ain't that a hoot? :unsure: The nurse practicioner even wrote down the visit was service connected because the pain was driving me crazy. Ofcourse she's no head doctor. I told her that I had gone to sick call while on active duty on several occasions to complain about lower back & joint pain. The doctors either acted like I was tryig to get out of work or that it was all in my head. go figure :unsure:

    At least now I realize why my Dad was always cranky when I was a kid...

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