ptsd Justification For Decreasing Your Ptsd Rating

[MPsgt]

The VA will come up with many justifications for lowering your SC rating for PTSD. I haven't had it happen to me yet. However, I'm willing to bet. If you don't utilize the VA crisis line or your local VAMC Psych Ward for treatment. They will use this to justify decreasing your rating at your next C & P exam. Can somebody prove me wrong?

[hueyman]

I am TDIU and 100%. I have never gone to the ER or such,but I still take the meds and do group therapy.I think that if you have PTSD and you do the same thing you won't have to worry about them decreasing your rating.By the way I don't believe there is cure for PTSD, I have been trying to deal with it for 45 years and do not think have to fake it.

[MPsgt]

I am TDIU and 100%. I have never gone to the ER or such,but I still take the meds and do group therapy.I think that if you have PTSD and you do the same thing you won't have to worry about them decreasing your rating.By the way I don't believe there is cure for PTSD, I have been trying to deal with it for 45 years and do not think have to fake it.

Obviously, your a member of trailblazers who established treatment for PTSD. I will not contest your statement. I every much agree with you. I've been doing many of the same things you do to try and minimize "symptoms." I'll try to follow the same course you and many others have blazed.

[john999]

Every few years some doctor comes up with a magical medical cure for mental illness of one sort or another. It has never worked yet, but they can sometimes deal with symptoms but at a cost. I think with the VA the way to protect or even increase a rating is to stay in treatment. If you really want help take your compensation money and pay a good private therapist to help you. You can use their notes as evidence as well if you are static or get worse over time. The VA wants to see you in treatment. This is just how they think.

John

[11cvolley]

I think the biggest issue is the VA sending you to new doctor. When I had my C&P for IU the doctor said I have some condition (can't remember what it is called) that I see things that arn't really there and I have a grim outlook on everything. He agreed I do have PTSD from the military but claims this condition he labeled me with was pre-existing and was made worse by the trauma in service. He also agreed that I am unable to work. So even though he made my case for IU (which is in decision phase) he also labeled me with a new condition based off of the C&P.

One statement he took out of context is that I don't like going to the eye doctor because I don't like people close to my face. So he put in my notes that I don't like wearing glasses because I don't want to see people closer to me. So you have to be very careful with your wording around most VA doctors. I don't think they really care and will put what ever they want into your notes. It pisses me off that they will take minimal notes and wait hours after your exam to write up their report. It is like, "really?" "You have how many patients a day, and you take how long to write my report?" Pisses me off to think my rating is in the hands of some VA doctor that only knows me for as long as the exam is.