Hello...I need some information regarding the Schedule for rating disabilities for gerds...
I called the 800 number and I was told the number was #7299-7203 and I can not find it on the VA web site.
My husband just received his decision and he was granted service connected due to having been diagnoised with Reflux during his time in service.
His decision was Gastroesophageal Reflux disease 10%...I feel the percent is two low...based on his medical documentation. Also he had one of those procedures done where they send a camera down and it is documented that he has a sliding hiheria..also some of his Symptoms are pain, vomiting, hard time swollowing after reflux takes place..and sometimes his arm will pulsate with pain...but not all the time...he is on maintance medication for the reflux and has 8-9 episodes per week.
esp. at night. so we keep the bed elevated at the head...due to the reflux he can not use his c-pap machine because he does has re-geration with the reflux...so he can not use his machine at all...
I feel a higher percentage is in order...
Also do they rate the sliding herina differnt from the Gerds?
on the decision it states...
1.) Service connection for gastroesophageal reflux disease.
Service medical records show complaint and treatment for this chronic condition.
during the VA exam you reported pyrosis and regurgitation two to three days a week. There is no dysphagia reported. Va exam shows that there are no signs of anemia. You have a normal appearing esophagus. There was no erosive esophagitis or Barrett's esophagus. Diagnosis is gastroesophageal reflux disease.. The Va examiner ipined that it is at least as likely as not that your current gastoesophageal reflux diesease is related to the treatment for gastroesophageal reflux noted during your military service.
Service connection for gastroesophageal reflux disease has been established as directly related to military service.
As evaluation of 10 percent is assigned from FEdxx,xxxx. An evaluation of 10 percent is assigned if there are two or more of the following symptoms: epigastric distress, dysphagia, pyrosis, regurgitation, or substernal or arm or should pain.
A higher evaluation of 30 percent is not warranted unless the record shows persistently recurrent epigastric with dysphagia, pyrosis, and regurgitation, accompanied by substernal or arm or shoulder pain which is productive of considerable impairment of health.
This disability is not specifically listed in the rating schedule; therefore, it is rated analogous to a disability in which not only the functions affected, but anatomical localization and symptoms are closely related.
What I find distrubing is that the C/P doctor...didn't even ask all the questions because she came running up to us as we were leaving the VA hospital saying she missed a few pages of questions...and she said...oooo I will just fill in the blanks...I couldn't believe it...My husband did tell her about the pain that shoots through his arms...we at one time thought he was having a heart attack until our doctor told us that is caused by the reflux...now if his arm feels that why when he isn't refluxing to go to the ER asap...
so I do not understand why he did not receive a higher percentage...
Also in the evidence that they used to grant s/c they did not use the report we had faxed to them from the Univeristy hospital of his gastro exam that shows the sliding herina...
so we would like to ask for a reconsideration but I don't know how to word it...and should I go get a copy of the gastro exam and diagnosis and attach it to the reconsideration...
and would a statement from me or him help as to the pain he experiances...
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Hello...I need some information regarding the Schedule for rating disabilities for gerds...
I called the 800 number and I was told the number was #7299-7203 and I can not find it on the VA web site.
My husband just received his decision and he was granted service connected due to having been diagnoised with Reflux during his time in service.
His decision was Gastroesophageal Reflux disease 10%...I feel the percent is two low...based on his medical documentation. Also he had one of those procedures done where they send a camera down and it is documented that he has a sliding hiheria..also some of his Symptoms are pain, vomiting, hard time swollowing after reflux takes place..and sometimes his arm will pulsate with pain...but not all the time...he is on maintance medication for the reflux and has 8-9 episodes per week.
esp. at night. so we keep the bed elevated at the head...due to the reflux he can not use his c-pap machine because he does has re-geration with the reflux...so he can not use his machine at all...
I feel a higher percentage is in order...
Also do they rate the sliding herina differnt from the Gerds?
on the decision it states...
1.) Service connection for gastroesophageal reflux disease.
Service medical records show complaint and treatment for this chronic condition.
during the VA exam you reported pyrosis and regurgitation two to three days a week. There is no dysphagia reported. Va exam shows that there are no signs of anemia. You have a normal appearing esophagus. There was no erosive esophagitis or Barrett's esophagus. Diagnosis is gastroesophageal reflux disease.. The Va examiner ipined that it is at least as likely as not that your current gastoesophageal reflux diesease is related to the treatment for gastroesophageal reflux noted during your military service.
Service connection for gastroesophageal reflux disease has been established as directly related to military service.
As evaluation of 10 percent is assigned from FEdxx,xxxx. An evaluation of 10 percent is assigned if there are two or more of the following symptoms: epigastric distress, dysphagia, pyrosis, regurgitation, or substernal or arm or should pain.
A higher evaluation of 30 percent is not warranted unless the record shows persistently recurrent epigastric with dysphagia, pyrosis, and regurgitation, accompanied by substernal or arm or shoulder pain which is productive of considerable impairment of health.
This disability is not specifically listed in the rating schedule; therefore, it is rated analogous to a disability in which not only the functions affected, but anatomical localization and symptoms are closely related.
What I find distrubing is that the C/P doctor...didn't even ask all the questions because she came running up to us as we were leaving the VA hospital saying she missed a few pages of questions...and she said...oooo I will just fill in the blanks...I couldn't believe it...My husband did tell her about the pain that shoots through his arms...we at one time thought he was having a heart attack until our doctor told us that is caused by the reflux...now if his arm feels that why when he isn't refluxing to go to the ER asap...
so I do not understand why he did not receive a higher percentage...
Also in the evidence that they used to grant s/c they did not use the report we had faxed to them from the Univeristy hospital of his gastro exam that shows the sliding herina...
so we would like to ask for a reconsideration but I don't know how to word it...and should I go get a copy of the gastro exam and diagnosis and attach it to the reconsideration...
and would a statement from me or him help as to the pain he experiances...
Thanks in advance..
MT
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