Pcp Made Referal With Va Ent Doc

[Rockhound]

I think I just got scr&%#d by my PCP NP helper, even though she may have thought she was helping me out. I told my PCP that I did not want to be seen by the in house ENT specialist nor the NP that works with him, I don't trust either one and my PCP knows I would rather pay out of my own pocket than to see either one.

Long story short, I went to the appointment, seeing the ENT NP and she is saying the latest CT scan, the one that my VA Claim for increase was based on, as evidence of a deviated septom, is saying that the CT shows their is no deviated septom.

Now I'm scheduled for a new CT Scan on the 24th of Aug. and I am wigging out that it will come back showing no deviated septom too, and word will get back to the VA regional office and I will loose the 10% increase I worked my ass off getting.

Once again I am walking a tight rope, my next step might have me falling. I'm freaking out over this and don't know which way to turn or how to handle this, should this new CT scan not be favorable.

I feel a rant comming on, so I better go for now.

Rockhound Rider :P B) B)

[purple]

If the CT Scan shows no deviated septum....that's not really something you can help. Do you have a copy of the one that does indeed show this condition? If not....get a copy ASAP.

[john999]

Rock

I bet if you keep going to the VA doctors that you will build up enough due to their errors and mistakes to justify your increase. The rater will get tired reading all the reports he does not understand and just grant you. The people who do the ratings have no medical knowledge at all. Keep complaining and getting referrals and you will hit the jackpot eventually.

[Rockhound]

I guess I'm too medicated to make myself clear. I told my PCP that I did not want to ever be seen by these two VAHC medical personel, who I did not trust to be pro Veteran but Pro Regional Office or non-pro Veteran. The last Time I was examined by this so called specialist, he made diagnostic assumption without doing or relying on specific tests, which after having been done, showed how wrong his diagnostic opinion was. and his report also reflected his negativity to anyone who disagreed with him. The NP who works with him and who has to sign off on the things she does, only rubber stamps what he has said and done in the past.

It's like their insistance that I have a chronic allergic rhinitis condition without have done any allergy tests to prove it and to show what allergin it is that I am chronically allergic to. An opinion like this is no better than if I claim it as chronic non allergic rhinitis due to my SC nasal fracture and deviated septum which due to the obstructive nasal air passages and the cause for abnormal air flow through them, being the cause vs. some sort of allergin.

I don't know if I am being clear or not, since forgetting my key to my cart, I've had to medicate once again for my pain issues, which means I can't drive until I get my pain under control once again and off the narco drugs I take for the pain, even working the keyboard causes me pain believe it or not.

I'm calling it an early night for a change, at least it's not for psychiatric reasons for a change, but given a choice, I think I'd rather be a bit crazy than have to deal with the constant level of pain I have now had to deal with.

Rockhound Rider :D :)

[Notorious Kelly]

I understand your frustration, Rockhound.

I gave my Sleep Lab doctor a short sheet with info from medical records that I'd like included in her statement.

She ended up omitting the info in what turned out to be a CYA letter for them, more harmful than helpful IMHO.

Fortunately, my neurologist wrote me a great letter (on an unrelated condition) that improved my disposition.

All part of the game............

Hang tough y'all! :D

[Commander Bob]

Can you see your deviated septum when you look up your nose? These things don't heal on their own. It's been my experience, when you sign a release of records to the VA from an outside doctor, you open the door to all the records from that Dr. IMHO.

Question; How long have you been rated for the deviated septum?

Edited August 16, 2009 by Commander Bob 92-93

[Rockhound]

Can you see your deviated septum when you look up your nose? These things don't heal on their own. It's been my experience, when you sign a release of records to the VA from an outside doctor, you open the door to all the records from that Dr. IMHO.

Question; How long have you been rated for the deviated septum?

Answer; It depends on how you or the VA looks at it I guess. The Service conected Nasal Fracture has been SC since day one from discharge from service, 1973, SC at 0%, I finally got an increase, I'm assuming, becuase it was determined that I met the disability schedule for a deviated septum due to trauma that caused at least 50% obstruction of the nasal passages on each side.

Even the VA Specialist said I had a deviated septum but did not go as far as the IMO Specialist to clarify the 50% obstruction, he only gave an opinion that agreed with the IMO that the deviation was to the left.

The last exam from my PCP stated that the obstruction on that day was 90% for the left side and 80% for the right side due to the deviated septum and sinus problems.

I think there has been a screw up with my referal for another opinion/IMO, but I go in Monday for my CT scan, so I will check on it's status. I don't think the PCP's NP forwarded my request to my PCP to send, by FAX, the referal I requested, since I have yet to hear about any appointment being met with this IMO specialist I hope to see.

Things are kind of comfusing me right now, since I have been suffering through constant pain since weaning myself off my Pain meds. I'm in constant pain all the time now and sometimes it gets so bad, all I can do is lay in bed, because I don't have the strength to do anything else.

I'm without a working bathroom right now. I have been working on the repairing the water damaged subflooring since the middle of last month. I can only work for such a small amount of time, that it seems like I will never get the job done. I still have a small section of sub-flooring to remove, before I can add some cross studs, to reinforce the new areas where the new subflooring sheets of plywood meet the original NDF sheeting.

I won't go into any detail on what I have to do to wash up and use the toilet, lets just say it is, at best, very primative. LoL

Rockhound Rider B) :P