Appeal Hemorrid Decision

[paluti]

Anyone out there successful in receiving 20% rating for hemorrids. I have IBS and received a 10% rating for hemorrids, I was considering appealing the decision but recently had surgery to remove the hemorrids due the excruciating pain. I am not sure if the surgery documentation will help or hurt my case.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Paluti

[bbknor]

Had and have hemmoroids. Resolved by surgury thouh VA, but what is IBS? Should I fill for compensation for the hemmoroids. Still have minor flair ups.

[vmo]

I would think you would rate 100% for the month of surgery, and probably will reduce you to 0%, unless you have 20 year protection. However, some people have developed fecal incontinence because of poor and or extensive surgery damaging the spinchter muscle (as others have mentioned) --a secondary/developmental condition.

[MikeR]

Are you certain the fecal incontinence is not more a function of IBS? IBS is a very serious problem in it's own right.

[MikeR]

OK, just spoke to the girlfriend who is a doctor, of course she sleepily mumbled the answer. Apparently fecal incontinence is a risk of the surgery you had, so while your hemmoroids might be better you have a new issue, or at least a worse one. So technically you don't have that issue anymore that you are being compensated for. I would keyword search the BVA cases to get an idea if this comes up and what their reaction might be. You might be better off not doing anything, as you have seen one action can have an unintended reaction.