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Guest jangrin
I hope someone can offer some advise B) My Viet Nam Vet husband has had medical symptoms for some time. Because of not having health insurance he put off going to the doctor and tried to handle problems through vitamins etc. He finally consented to going to the VA for help. He has just begun treatment for Diabetis type 2, hypertention, hyperlipidemia, advanced cardiac artery disease, periferal neuropathy, tinnitus and ED which is a result of all the medications). They thought he had a heart attack during the stress test so they sent him for a nuclear profusion test which was positive. We went to private facilty and paid for a CT of his heart. His cardiac score is 1720 well over the dangerous 400 that the radiologist says is very high. The VA cardiologist doesn't want to do an angiogram because he feels the cardiac surgeon will want to do heart surgery. He doesn't think surgery will improve my husband's quality of life. If my husband has a heart attact or chest pain that isn't controlled through medication, then he will recommend further help. Needless to say we are very overwhelmed right now.
We filed some paperwok with VA in February and now they want him to prove related service connected illness. What is our next step and is there going to be more exams or will they take the only medical records we have (which are very recent since last october) through the VA? Is this going to be enough to help us? Will he be elligible for a percentage of service realted disability. Needless to say my 61 year old husband is no longer working and he has filed for SSD which is going to take months (or so we've been told). Any advise or direction is appreciated. Thank you all.
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