Chloracne

[tinkerertn]

Hello: Ok try this one, I have bumps on my arms neck and cheek bones they come up as white balls and when in dig the core our they are little round hard white balls and leave a scar. I have been to several doctors and none of them will diagnose chloracne. They say unknown bacterial infection and one dermatologist said it was a bacterial infection in my nose and when I touch my nose then my arms it causes the bumps. I filed a claim for this in 87 again in 02 and V. A. states without doctor diagnoses could not help. How do you get a doctor to say what this really is?

[Berta]

This is a fairly recent award for Porphyria Cutanea Tarda due to AO

http://www4.va.gov/vetapp09/files1/0904628.txt

The decision states how PCT must be evident at level of at least 10% within the presumptive time frame.

You need to prove that you were treated for some manifestation of this disease during your military service or the presumptive period.

Have you contacted Jim Cripps to see what doctors he got IMOS from?

Even BVA decision often reveal the name or initials of a doctor who opined for a successful claim.

My BVA case mentions my IMO docs by initials.

BVA decisions also refer to the VARO locale so this is one way to start to find an IMO doc mentioned in the decision - by using the locale and then finding a list of their skin specialists at numerous medical sites on the web.

It took my 6 months to find one of my IMO docs.

He had made as VA doc, an entry in my husband's med recs that was unusual-

I asked VA to sub peona him when they started their denials of my claim.

But I had misinterpreted how he spelled his name-

When I finally figured out his name-I googled him and found his private practice and his very short email to me after he got copy of a few records from me-he remembered my husband well-his short statement was dynamite and BVA weighed it as much as they weighed my 4000 bucks worth of additional IMOs.

IMO doctors can certainly be found-

I also used a Forensic outfit-cant recall their name -for a cardio IMO but I won my claim days after the cardio doc got the evidence and had not prepared his IMO yet.

You need a specialist to fully diagnose what this condition is and then you need to read over how they handle these presumptives as to the limiting presumptive period.