Any Others Hospitalized For Stomach Issues On Active Duty?

[retiredat44]

any others hospitalized for stomach issues on active duty? I had been hosptialized for gastritis while on active duty and now suffer intestinal disease. I am wondering if anyone got disbaility benfits by tying their stomach (intestinal) issues to illness while they wre on active duty. Did you have to appeal, or did they tie the ongoing stomach issues to the illness from active duty.

was a one time on duty hopitalization give enough of a nexus to ongoing stomach issues, or did those that applied for disability have to get more proof.

Just curious...

[Papa]

I should have been, but the AF Doctors apparently had a surplus of Maalox to keep giving me. They had DX me for gas . I was lucky that I was discharged soon after, and had to be taken to an ER, where some "Doctor" that looked around 12 DX me immediately with Gall Stones. The stones had traveled throughout my Bile system. If, I had stayed in, I know that this common medical problem would have killed me. I did file and got it SC at 0%. I did have the AL, DAV, etc. help me, but I will be nice and not say how much help they were.

Papa

[Veldrina]

Yikes, sry that happened to u Papa :(

retired: if you even have one mention of it in your service records and have a current diagnosis of a stomach issue now that a doctor can establish a nexus to, you should be good. Esp. if you have proof that you were seen for stomach isssues within a yr of discharge.