Hearing Loss

[roadking]

Hello All, I Have been going through my active duty med records and found that when I had my induction physical for the navy my hearing was fine. fast forward 3 years and had a hearing test when I was changing commands they noted hearing loss on the report for medical examination plus I have copies of both audiometer readouts. I was a pit snipe down 3 main on the JFK CV 67. As of present my hearing is not to good do you think I can make a claim for service connection for hearing loss.

[ddm39142002navy]

It is possible because of your position in the military, also if you have ringing in the ears tinnitus you can also process a claim for that.

Define from www.medicinenet.com/tinnitus/article.htm: loud noise exposure is a very common cause of tinnitus, and it often damages hearing as well. Unfortunately, many people are unconcerned about the harmful effects of excessively loud noise, firearms, and high intensity music. Some medications (for example, aspirin) and other diseases of the inner ear (Meniere's syndrome.

[Guest terrysturgis]

File the claim. The worst thing that could happen is the VA says no. I am service connected for hearing loss at 0% with 10% for tinnitus (ringing in my ears). Good luck. Terry

[mitchell3006]

If your records show the loss then you have an obvious service connection (to us anyway, with VA who knows...). Seriously use those two to file the initial claim for loss also document and file if you have tinnitus (ringing in the ears). The hearing loss takes a lot of loss before it pays anything. Tinnitus pays 10%. The nature of your service specialty is high risk for hearing loss. Make sure you explain the job and what noise exposure you had in the military to the C&P examiner and audiologist.

[carlie]

More info.

For Tinnitus to be SC'd compensable it must be:

1) Subjective Tinnitus - ( heard by you but not by others)

2) Recurrent

jmho,

carlie

[roadking]

Thanks all, do you know if they have a test for tinnitus, I do have ringing in my ears

[DickC]

I was denied a hearing loss claim but was granted 10% for tinitus due to the job I had in the military.