Winter Blues And Lousy Imo Dr. Has Me Down

[Rockhound]

I haven't been up to logging on for awhile, ever since I failed to get a local Specialist to help me with my claim on secondary problems associated with my SC nasal problems.

I'm going to have to go with my own self evaluation using my own medical background to show the logic in my own opinion of my secondary problems and how my SC condition is impacted by them.

The one major item I will have to clarify is that I am not claiming that a fractured nasal bone and deviated septom causes either Non Allergic Rhinitis, Allergic Rhinitis, or Chronic Sinitus, but that I am claiming like symptoms are the result of a malformed nasal passage way and/or that these conditions are impacted by the malformed nasal passage way by causing then to be worse than they would otherwise be.

I've started this self opinion statement a few times already and find it hard to keep it short and concise and quoting from my medical records and such when it is needed. but no matter how I try, it still seems to read like a paperback novel in size and I know If I present it, no one is going to read it all the way through nor consider all the evidence that is probative to my claim.

I have to find an Allergist on a VA Fee Basis soon or my time limit to find one will be use up and my PCP will have to request one again. I need a allergy test to hopefully show that I don't have Allergic Rhinitis or an allergy that causes my nasal symptoms. That's the only way I think I can present my own opinion that rebutts the C&P evaluation that says my problem are due to and not caused by my SC condition.

Sometimes it even has me thinking like the VA which doesn't help my claim one bit. Anyway, I'm still alive and kicking, but not kicking very high or hard. LOL :o

Rockhound Rider :P

[Pete53]

Hang in there no one ever said it would be easy.

[dannydad]

I haven't been up to logging on for awhile, ever since I failed to get a local Specialist to help me with my claim on secondary problems associated with my SC nasal problems.

I'm going to have to go with my own self evaluation using my own medical background to show the logic in my own opinion of my secondary problems and how my SC condition is impacted by them.

The one major item I will have to clarify is that I am not claiming that a fractured nasal bone and deviated septom causes either Non Allergic Rhinitis, Allergic Rhinitis, or Chronic Sinitus, but that I am claiming like symptoms are the result of a malformed nasal passage way and/or that these conditions are impacted by the malformed nasal passage way by causing then to be worse than they would otherwise be.

I've started this self opinion statement a few times already and find it hard to keep it short and concise and quoting from my medical records and such when it is needed. but no matter how I try, it still seems to read like a paperback novel in size and I know If I present it, no one is going to read it all the way through nor consider all the evidence that is probative to my claim.

I have to find an Allergist on a VA Fee Basis soon or my time limit to find one will be use up and my PCP will have to request one again. I need a allergy test to hopefully show that I don't have Allergic Rhinitis or an allergy that causes my nasal symptoms. That's the only way I think I can present my own opinion that rebutts the C&P evaluation that says my problem are due to and not caused by my SC condition.

Sometimes it even has me thinking like the VA which doesn't help my claim one bit. Anyway, I'm still alive and kicking, but not kicking very high or hard. LOL :o

Rockhound Rider :P

rock, do you have or know a ENT specialist? They usally have an allergist or

knows one.My ENT Has his own allergy clinic,(big money talks,my money walks)the va ent most likely can recomend someone. give it a whirl. At 67 I know a lot about that kicking thingy, it can be a hand full at time but no fear rocky HERE.my prays go out to you.

[deltaj]

I haven't been up to logging on for awhile, ever since I failed to get a local Specialist to help me with my claim on secondary problems associated with my SC nasal problems.

I'm going to have to go with my own self evaluation using my own medical background to show the logic in my own opinion of my secondary problems and how my SC condition is impacted by them.

The one major item I will have to clarify is that I am not claiming that a fractured nasal bone and deviated septom causes either Non Allergic Rhinitis, Allergic Rhinitis, or Chronic Sinitus, but that I am claiming like symptoms are the result of a malformed nasal passage way and/or that these conditions are impacted by the malformed nasal passage way by causing then to be worse than they would otherwise be.

I've started this self opinion statement a few times already and find it hard to keep it short and concise and quoting from my medical records and such when it is needed. but no matter how I try, it still seems to read like a paperback novel in size and I know If I present it, no one is going to read it all the way through nor consider all the evidence that is probative to my claim.

I have to find an Allergist on a VA Fee Basis soon or my time limit to find one will be use up and my PCP will have to request one again. I need a allergy test to hopefully show that I don't have Allergic Rhinitis or an allergy that causes my nasal symptoms. That's the only way I think I can present my own opinion that rebutts the C&P evaluation that says my problem are due to and not caused by my SC condition.

Sometimes it even has me thinking like the VA which doesn't help my claim one bit. Anyway, I'm still alive and kicking, but not kicking very high or hard. LOL :)

Rockhound Rider B)

V.A. uses medical treatise information in evaluating claims. I recommend you file a Notice of Disagreement and cite new and material evidence found in the Merck Manual on deviated septum. I searched online under deviated septum and found the following quote from the Merck Manual, "Deviated septum . . . A minor deviation usually causes no symptoms and requires no treatment. However, if severe, a deviation may block one side of the nose, making a person prone to inflammation of the sinuses (sinusitis), particularly if the deviated septum blocks drainage from a sinus into the nasal cavity." I suggest you also obtain and submit a favorable IMO on the issue of whether you have a severe deviated septum as a result of injuries you incurred in service.

Edited March 16, 2010 by deltaj

[carlie]

Rock,

Hang in there.

carlie

[retiredat44]

I have these same symptoms with my nose and was treated for those while on active duty. I have had a bad nasal infection for 1.5 years. My doctor said she could not give me medicine because of liver problems..

I will not get into the gross symptoms... I am going to see my doctor again very soon, I have an appointment. I was in the hospttal with a feeding tube that ran through my nose into my intestines for six months, and asked

them if that caused my latest nose infection. They were not sure.

my question is how do they treat nasal infections? I am so pissed having ot live with this..

Do they treat it with anti-biotics? what a crappy way to live..

:)

I haven't been up to logging on for awhile, ever since I failed to get a local Specialist to help me with my claim on secondary problems associated with my SC nasal problems.

I'm going to have to go with my own self evaluation using my own medical background to show the logic in my own opinion of my secondary problems and how my SC condition is impacted by them.

The one major item I will have to clarify is that I am not claiming that a fractured nasal bone and deviated septom causes either Non Allergic Rhinitis, Allergic Rhinitis, or Chronic Sinitus, but that I am claiming like symptoms are the result of a malformed nasal passage way and/or that these conditions are impacted by the malformed nasal passage way by causing then to be worse than they would otherwise be.

I've started this self opinion statement a few times already and find it hard to keep it short and concise and quoting from my medical records and such when it is needed. but no matter how I try, it still seems to read like a paperback novel in size and I know If I present it, no one is going to read it all the way through nor consider all the evidence that is probative to my claim.

I have to find an Allergist on a VA Fee Basis soon or my time limit to find one will be use up and my PCP will have to request one again. I need a allergy test to hopefully show that I don't have Allergic Rhinitis or an allergy that causes my nasal symptoms. That's the only way I think I can present my own opinion that rebutts the C&P evaluation that says my problem are due to and not caused by my SC condition.

Sometimes it even has me thinking like the VA which doesn't help my claim one bit. Anyway, I'm still alive and kicking, but not kicking very high or hard. LOL B)

Rockhound Rider B)