diabetes Hopefully Final C/p

[buickx]

Have a c/p next week...for my Kidneys (at stage 3) as secondary to my approved Diabetes 2..

Have submitted, in my claim, a letter from a va renal doctor which states "I'm aware of his internal problems, and in my best medical opinion, his diabetes has manifasted problems with his kidneys due to exposure to agent orange, and that it at least likely as not, that the kidney disease is a result of the diabetes" This letter was generated after a discussion with him about the fact I do not have protein in my urine, his answer was "you do not have to have protein in your urine to have kidney failure" i'm looking for info/medical to submit at c/p ref the statement above along with this letter.

thanks

Edited December 15, 2007 by buickx

[rentalguy1]

I hate that you are going through what you are going through, but I hope you win your claim! Here is a quick bit of info on kidney failure. i don't know if it will help or not. Good luck!

Info on acute renal failure

[Pete53]

Good Luck Buickx I am thinking good thoughts for you.

[Berta]

There is plenty of good info at the ADA web site and others and even in the VA DMII training letter as to the high possibility of renal disease due to DMII.

WIth a good statement like this from a VA doctor- there shouldnt be any problem with secondary SC for the renal problems but it pays to have as much evidence as you can get-

The DMII training letter should be here under a search-

also the VA will often SC HBP to DMII if the DMII is causing renal problems or is due to the renal problems.

[Berta]

Here is the hadit post for the DMII training letter:

http://www.hadit.com/forums/index.php?show...mode=linearplus

[buickx]

Thanks for the replies, but the va uses the statement, in which I have been turned down twice, that you have to have protein in your urine to prove you have kidney failure, but I do not. I think the only thing I'm taking with me is the letter I mentioned in my orginal post, I also have been turned down for hypertension, which I read it's 10%...guess it's the luck of the draw..

[Ricky]

buick - did he put the fact that protien was not required in your medical records or statement? If not will he provide the info via written form for you? If I were you and it is in the statement or he will provide it in written form I would take it to the VARO and shove it up their XX@#@'s so far they would think the second coming was upon them. No matter how far the VARO is from me I would have to do this. In your internet searches you will need to find such info not only from the ADA site but also from a study done and submitted by a doc to a prominent univeristy. otherwise they will fall back on this "simple internet printout" theory they use on veterans. They kept telling me this about the stuff I was submitting on my stroke from the NSA people so I went searching for studies as I said above. I was luck enough to find one done by a high ranking VA research doctor who had a research paper on stroke issus that I was claiming and was done specially for the VA. Man oh man did I let them have it hahahahahahaha