New Claim I Am Filing

[Jim 501st]

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VA claim number -----

I ------------------- wish to file the following claims.

1 Neurogenic bladder. I have to urinate 12 to 15 times a day. I get up an average of 5 times a night. I leak in my bed. If I go out I have to wear protection. I carry a urinal in my Automobile. I have always bought my own protection for leakage.

2 Erectile dysfunction. This started in 2004. I took medication for this from the VA for about a year in 2004 or 2005, but for what ever reason they quit supplying it.

My problem started in the Military. We left Ft. Campbell Ky. And jumped at Ft. Bragg N.C... While there I awoke one morning with pain in my right lower quadrant. I was taken to Womac Army hospital at Ft, Bragg. Upon arrival they did an Appendectomy and exploratory laparotomy. During the operation they discovered my appendix was all right, but removed it anyhow, since they were already there.

Due to finding my appendix was not the problem, the small bowel was run for a distance of approximately 3’ from the ileocecal junction with the finding of multiple enlarged nodes in the mesentery. I was in the hospital for 8 days. My hospital records show I had a bladder infection that did not clear up while there. A note on my discharge said I would be followed up for this condition when I got back to Ft. Campbell Ky.

Notes from Ft. Campbell on 27 Aug. 1962 showed I still had a urinary track infection.

This condition was never addressed and followed up or corrected as the record is silent on this issue.

I went back to the clinic on my own on 24 July 1963. I stated to the Dr. on this visit I had been having problems urinating for the last four or five month, including wetting the bed, among other things related to the subject. The lab work attached confirms I still had bladder infection on this date.

On 20 Aug 1963 I stated under (health in my own words ) Bladder infection due to appendix operation July 1962

On the other side of this final exam form, the Dr. wrote.

Appendectomy- USAH Womac- N.C.- Aug 1962. Occ’l pain over scar

Infection of bladder-Aug 62 Symptomatic with frequent urination- Sequelas at present. UCHD.

I HAVE ATTACHED ALL THE RECORDS FROM MY SERVICE MEDICAL RECORD MENTIONED ABOVE

I was awarded total disability by Social Security in 1985 as this condition being mentioned as difficulty controlling urination. He has an impairment that is severe,” as defined in the definition.

(I Didn't included this in my claim, but sent a copy of my award letter. I also had back problems from a fusion surgery.)

This problem has consistently gotten worse since I got out of the service in Sept. 1963.

I only went to emergency rooms for illnesses after I got out of the service. I lived in several different states until 1966. I married in 1966 and moved back to ----------

We used Dr ------------from 1966 to 1980, when he closed his practice due to retirement. I have tried for years to find his records, but to no avail.

After 14 years of being treated by him, the final conclusion was it was something that was untreatable and I would just have to live with it as best I could.

I have included a few pages of records from Dr. -----where we discussed the issue in the 80's.

YOU HAVE ALL OF HIS RECORDS IN MY C-FILE

I ALSO ATTACHED A COPY OF THE HOSPITAL RECORDS FROM WOMAC WHICH I DON’T THINK YOU HAVE.

I ATTACHED A COPY OF MY SOCIAL SECURITY AWARD WHICH YOU ALREADY HAVE A COPY IN MY C-FILE.

I ATTACHED A COPY OF MY MEDS FROM THE VA WHERE I WAS PRESCRIBED SILDENAFIL FOR ERECTILE DISFUNCTION (VIAGRA)

I ‘m not sure why they took me off it. I think it was because of a heart medication I was taking.

Well that is the letter I have prepared to send with my claim. Sinec I am a novice please read and advise so I can amend.

I am working on another claim I'll need advice on soon.

thanks a million

501st Jim (kkp)

[Berta]

Jim- without after service med recs-you might need some buddy statements from the wife or anyone else-

since 1963 have you ever applied for insurance for employment or anything lese that might have required a physical or some documentation of this disability?

Also it might pay to somehow access your SSA file-

SSA awards are actually IMOs and maybe there is something that went back to 1963 records-they might have even gotten the private doctors records.

Also can this in any way at be associated as secondary to your 50% SC award?

Could meds for that have -if not caused it- made it worse? then you could ask for SC of an NSC condition due to agravation of NSC due to SC.

I have a post here under the search feature as to how one can get secondary SC for aggravation of NSC condition by SC condition.

Example: say vet has SC PTSD and is given librium.She also has been diagnosed with NSC liver problems.

Say she develops serious NSC liver problems after long term use of librium for her SC PTSD.

Vet reads on the net that librium can cause liver problems or make them worse.

Vet has bonafide claim for liver condition as secondary to her SC PTSD meds aggravating it

(and maybe basis for a Section 1151 claim)

Edited February 29, 2008 by Berta