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I have an on going claim for an increase for my back. Well a few different doctors have said that I have sciatia and neuropathy.....I added that to my claim the end of Sept, I got the we are working on your claim and need more information from you the 25th and today I have a C&P schedualed for the 2nd......I thought it was pretty good that they are getting me in so quick.

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Chronic pain and depression can get you 100% if it is severe enough. They may start with a low rating but if it incapacitates you then the % can go up all the way. Consider what the drugs you take for chronic pain and depression do to your ability to concentrate, drive a car, be productive. All this can go into a rating. I take dope for chronic pain and it makes it very hard for me to concentrate and think clearly. It seems to me the VA has to have a source for the chronic pain and that would be your back in order to get SC for the chronic pain. The pain must come from a SC condition. What rating % did they give you for the pain and depression?

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30%.....I have 20% on my back. With my back issues I can hardly work without the drugs I take. No Doctor will say I can't work or anything else. I am working full time right now, miserable most of the time.....The C&P for the pain syndrome/depression was very long and the Doc didn't think Pain syndrome was a condition......

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30%.....I have 20% on my back. With my back issues I can hardly work without the drugs I take. No Doctor will say I can't work or anything else. I am working full time right now, miserable most of the time.....The C&P for the pain syndrome/depression was very long and the Doc didn't think Pain syndrome was a condition......

What was the C&P for pain syndrome/depression like? How does this differ from just visiting with a counselor and getting your axis/gaf score? Did they just ask you a laundry list of questions or also issue written tests?

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The test was a counselor seeing me for the first time, reviewing my normal counselors notes and talking with me and some written tests.....that's it....it did take me a while to do.....

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You need an opinion from a private pain management doctor or psychiatrist on the chronic pain syndrome. Do you have private insurance? If you can get your percentages bumped up it will be easier to retire from your job on disability and then get IU. You don't want to be in the situation I was in where your cannot work any more, and only have a 30% rating. In that case you have to show you are IU from your SC condition and the VA has to believe it enough to bump you up to 60-70% so you can get the IU. Get your ratings near 70% while you are still able to work.

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I had two different Docs say I have pain syndrome, but the person doing the C&P doesn't believe in it.....so he said depression. So the VA put them together.....so how do I sperate them?

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