Received My C & P Appointment Letter Today..

[Cherie33]

I sure hope so...I know that it's a constant battle and I am trying to get prepared. They scheduled it for the 30th of April. Wow, I'm nervous already. I really need this.

I'll keep you all updated.

Does anyone have any idea of how long it usually takes to get a decision after you complete a C & P exam? I've got a few more things that I would like to submit as evidence. What should I do? Submit it before I go to see the C & P doc?

Thanks,

Cherie33

[Maurice]

Submit others forms before the C and P

[cowgirl]

finished exams for iu here too, off to raters next, pins and needles with you, praying hard to get whats needed. I'm guessing between 3-6 weeks or so after exam to transcribe docs notes and forward to rater. Also if one selected wait 60 days, that adds time to submit supporting information. Prayers, cg

I sure hope so...I know that it's a constant battle and I am trying to get prepared. They scheduled it for the 30th of April. Wow, I'm nervous already. I really need this.

I'll keep you all updated.

Does anyone have any idea of how long it usually takes to get a decision after you complete a C & P exam? I've got a few more things that I would like to submit as evidence. What should I do? Submit it before I go to see the C & P doc?

Thanks,

Cherie33

[Josephine]

 I've got a few more things that I would like to submit as evidence. What should I do? Submit it before I go to see the C & P doc?

Submit your new evidence before the C&P, so that the Doctor can also

review this new evidence.

I would also take the new evidence with me to the C&P as sometimes,

time is againt you, and you never know how long will take for the new

evidence to be placed in your claims folder.

Just make sure what ever you hand to the doctor has been date

stamped, so he will know the VA does have a copy of it.

When I went for my first C&P, one of my most important documents,

"My buddy Letter," was not within the file. The first thing the

doctor did was to look for the date stamp and then he used it in his

opinion write up.

Without this " Buddy Letter", I had nothing to collaborate I was

telling the truth.

This is just my opinion from my experience

Always,

Betty

[Pete53]

Cherie:

When I did my C&P they had a form that I signed that I checked the box that I was ready to be rated on the evidence they had including the C&P. I recommend that you send anything else you want them to look at and make sure you sign the form. You may have to ask for it that was a year ago.

After I did that I gor a decision in three weeks.

Good Luck

[Cherie33]

Betty - Date stamped? How do I get something date stamped? I am a long ways away from the St. Petersburg VA.

Pete - I'm not sure what you mean. Are you saying that after my C 7 P exam, that the VA will send me a letter and ask if I want to submit additional evidence or do I want them to go ahead and rate my claim with what they already have?

The evidence that I have is a questionaire that my Attorney (who is representing me in my Social Security Disability claim) sent to me and asked me to hand deliver to my doctors. I have already received one of them back from my VA Primary Care Dr. and I am waiting to receive the other questionaire from my VA Psychiatrist. I think that I will go ahead and send in the one that I have, and hopefully I will receive the other one soon.

What do you all think?

Cherie33

[Josephine]

Betty - Date stamped? How do I get something date stamped? I am a long ways away from the St. Petersburg VA.

Pete - I'm not sure what you mean. Are you saying that after my C 7 P exam, that the VA will send me a letter and ask if I want to submit additional evidence or do I want them to go ahead and rate my claim with what they already have?

The evidence that I have is a questionaire that my Attorney (who is representing me in my Social Security Disability claim) sent to me and asked me to hand deliver to my doctors. I have already received one of them back from my VA Primary Care Dr. and I am waiting to receive the other questionaire from my VA Psychiatrist. I think that I will go ahead and send in the one that I have, and hopefully I will receive the other one soon.

What do you all think?

Cherie33

Cherie,

I had turned in the " Buddy Letter" already to the DRO at the R.O, but was just a little

suspicious, so I carried my copy with me and it was the best thing that I did, for

this one important document was left out of my C-file.

If you have anything that is very important and beneficial to your claim and you

have already turned it in to the R.O , these are the documents you may wish to

take with you. To be on the safe side. This is only my opinion, for it happened to me.

Always,

Betty