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[jbasser]

Keep me posted on the DMII. I will go the same route.

DMII and hypertension seem to run hand in hand.

Just need a doc to put them together.

John

[Boats]

will do, hopefully they will send me for a C&P for it and make a Nexus at it, but who knows...may have to get an IMO. I asked my Pricare Doc to do it (Tricare at Army Hospital) and he blew me off. Just have to see if the VA will give me a C&P. See if the cost of the IMO is worth the 20% and will get me to 100%

Boats

[Chuck75]

The difficulty you (and I) face is that heart, circulatory, and blood pressure problems often occur without diagnosis of diabetes. When these conditions occur before a diagnosis of diabetes, the best that can be said is that diabetes can (and does) aggravate them. Proving to the VA that Diabetes is a likely cause is a hard road to go down. It really depends on the availablity of old medical records that show higher than normal blood sugar levels. With this information, and a good IMO from a qualified specialist, you (and I) have a fair chance of success in getting SC for them. The VA will likely try to offset by having an in house "medical professional" say that Diabetes has a small contributing factor, and so forth. the saving factor is if the total disability with everything is 100%. This can easily happen if left Ventricle Efficiency is less than 30%. I have had a heck of a time finding useful records. Seems that the local hospital threw them out when they aged out at ten years. Many of the doctors that treated me in critical time frames are no longer alive, let alone in practice. One light in the long tunnel is that the medical profession and the NIH has said in print that there is such a condition as "prediabetes" and that heart, blood pressure, and circulatory problems may be the first sign of diabetes in patients with higher than normal blood sugar levels that are well below the levels used to confirm diabetes.

will check again have had 3 caths done first was in 2003 at a civ hospital that showed a lef on report. The last two were done at a Navy Hospital and cant find it on either of these reports just the percentage of blockage, type of stents, and the flow rate of the artery before and after. Will ask the Navy Doc if one was done when they did it. But he is the one who sent me to get the echo last month because he did not have a LEF.

Well anyway filed for my DM II this morning was waiting for them to finish this claim up, was hoping to get to 100% with this claim.

Thanks

Boats