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Greetings everyone,

I found this site a short time ago, and it is a gold mine. I have been fighting the fight since 2002 when I retired from the Army. I was armed with the CFR and 26 years worth of medical records and the thought that God was on my side. He was, the VA was not. The home page comment of "Put down your gun and pick up the keyboard.... is so true." This site (forums) has made me aware that there are secondary conditions to the primary. I just finished a sleep study this am at my local VAMC (they are excellent people) and I will now have to use a CPAC machine. If it were not for the postings I would not have known that sleep apnea is secondary to asthma (which i have). I have also been diagnosed with cardiomyopathy as a secondary to hypertension. Which brings me to my question(sorry for the rambling), I already have the results from the C&P exam (the VARO does not yet have them). So, should I wait for the results or fax the VARO the results and the appropriate sections of chap 4 38CFR? This has helped me in the past. Your opinions please. Thanks, Mike

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Welcome to Hadit.com

I would send all of them certified mail, but if you have had luck in the past with the fax machine go for it. The sooner the VA has the information the better your ED. Good Luck.

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I like snail mail, certified return receipt.... but as long as they get it that is all that matters.

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Welcome to Hadit and good luck on your claim.

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If you already have the results of the C&P exam, it wouldn't hurt to send it to your RO. It probably will help speed things up a bit. You don't need to send in the CFR regulations pertaining to you claim, at least not yet anyhow. You can send them if the need to appeal the decision arises! By sending the regulations now, it would probably just clutter your c-file up and inhance the chances that any really evidence will get over looked!

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