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You’ve just been rated 100% disabled by the Veterans Affairs. After the excitement of finally having the rating you deserve wears off, you start asking questions. One of the first questions that you might ask is this: It’s a legitimate question – rare is the Veteran that finds themselves sitting on the couch eating bon-bons …Continue reading
Wayne -I replied to you in Success topic but I think I should post the Training letter again here- sometime back many asked for it and I could not find it at the time-
and PS- if a veteran has atherosclerotic (arteriolsclerotic terms are generic to cover atherosclerosis and hyperlimidemia )heart disease or cataracts- the VA must secondarily SC them to DMII without any other possible medical cause-as well as the HBP-
Also- hyperlipidemia can be found as secondary to DMII too-this is the low cholestrol value with a high tryglyceride value on your Chem recs-
It took a VA doc opining in an old SOC about this for me to even know my husband had it-(and a large medical book to see what it meant)-his Cholestrol and tryglyc reading were continually circled or checked along with his glucose readings ( (the diabetic lipid hypothesis) yet this was ignored by VA and never followed up--and was highly symptomatic of his misdiagnosed conditions.
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Wayne -I replied to you in Success topic but I think I should post the Training letter again here- sometime back many asked for it and I could not find it at the time-
and PS- if a veteran has atherosclerotic (arteriolsclerotic terms are generic to cover atherosclerosis and hyperlimidemia )heart disease or cataracts- the VA must secondarily SC them to DMII without any other possible medical cause-as well as the HBP-
Also- hyperlipidemia can be found as secondary to DMII too-this is the low cholestrol value with a high tryglyceride value on your Chem recs-
It took a VA doc opining in an old SOC about this for me to even know my husband had it-(and a large medical book to see what it meant)-his Cholestrol and tryglyc reading were continually circled or checked along with his glucose readings ( (the diabetic lipid hypothesis) yet this was ignored by VA and never followed up--and was highly symptomatic of his misdiagnosed conditions.
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