Need Your Advice

[navydoc2]

Let me start with a little background information, I am currently rated 80% with IU. My sc are 70% depression, 10% right knee, 10% tinnitis. This increase for IU was just recent in August. The last few months my blood pressure has been out of control and The docs have increased my meds but I still have pitting edema in both legs and run about 150/90 with the med increase. My psych doc has asked if I have ever been tested for sleep apnea since I complain of lack of sleep, chronic fatigue,and difficulty concentrating. I've had to drop out of Voc Rehab due to these symptoms. My vocrehab counselor is calling me infeasible. My questions are:

Should I just apply for P&T? I've applied for SSD and am waiting to hear back should I wait for this before applying for P&T

Should I apply for high blood pressure first then sleep apnea?

Should I wait to be tested for sleep apnea first before filing for high blood pressure?

Thanks in advance for all of your help.

[navydoc2]

What we don't even know is how many claims are rejected and how many claims are approved each year. I don't believe the VA keeps these statistics. I don't think they want the public and us to know. Probably most claims are granted eventually but who knows if the VA does not keep such records?

Like you said j its crap and like bronco says the VA puts you in a adversarial situation, and I'm sure they keep those stats, I wonder If one of those lawyers that supports Vets issues could ask for it under the freedom of information act.

[LarryJ]

"I wonder If one of those lawyers that supports Vets issues could ask for it under the freedom of information act."

The only problem that I find in the so-called "Freedom of Information Act" is this:

First of all you have to KNOW that the information that you seek REALLY exists.

Secondly, to prove that you KNOW it exists, you have to know WHO and WHERE to ask for it.

Otherwise, if you are on a "fishing expedition" (and they can tell whether or not you are) and cannot tell THEM where THEIR information IS, then "pooof" IT DOESN'T EXIST!

And WE know that the VA knows how many claims are approved, how many are deniend, how many are remanded, etc., simply because that is what their managers are "graded" on.

And, not only that, but, the figures are only as good as the figurer.

Remember the "body count" method of gaining rank? It all depended upon WHO was doing the counting, didn't it?

[Pete53]

I know that they keep a lot of stats that they do not share. One is the percentage of Veterans who have diabetes II is 27% or the highest of any group in the country.