ptsd Very Depressed, And Was Wondering If There Is A Time To Throw In The Towel.

[Papa]

I have been waiting for over 820 days for a claim that is still in gathering evidence. Appeals that no one knows about. P&C exams that I'm suppose to take, but the VA and QTC have no clue about this. The 1-800# were you make an appointment for them to call you back, but they do not. You can not get your Law Firm to call you back. My Parkinson's, DMII, PN, PTSD, etc. are taking its toll on me, and was wondering if there? What the crap am I talking about? Quit? My ass!! Never Never Never!! Just want to choke someone at the Houston RO.

Papa

[autumn]

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The very fact that a good IMO can totally overcome a negative C & P ,in many cases, tells me that these C & P doctors are not adequately doing C & P s and worse yet, what kind of care do they give to VA patients in a non C & P situation?

Then again how many C & Ps are done by non MDs these days at VA. Something is wrong with the whole picture and things started to get bad ,or some reason , in my opinion, when the VA became a Cabinet post.

i wouldn't have believe it about C&Ps had i not have witnessed it first hand and researched websites such as this. look how common it is, just by reading posts here and this is just (one) website for veterans, that we veterans get a C&P finally scheduled only to have to get a follow up C&P due to the first one was a (bait-n-switch for lack of proper descriptive). i couldn't believe my first MS C&P, i mean really, just didn't make any sense. the doctor ( i assume was instructed to do it that way) did everything he could to steer it away from disabilities, that MS is so hard to quantify, that they don't get many MS patients in this state, and tried to belittle the IME i had, etc. i had to contact a Congressional office to get the "correct C&P". and that exam was like night and day.

i've mentioned that before, but what i'm trying to get to is, the 9 month wait for the first C&P exam that took a few letters from VSO, then another 6 months to get the correct one, another year to the psych exam eval as this VA and/or VARO argued continuously that psych/cog issues weren't warranted for me and my MS. hello! no sense going into MS and cog issues here, one can google MS and find that. that all goes along with what you replied and that is someone ( i say legal types ) at VA must be indirectly or directly training these folks to be this way. thats why i say it borders on VA being very close to doing things illegal to veterans in this regard.

that is to say, i was aghast that we now a days have to file for a C&P just to get a diagnosis. and that being the case, no wonder C&P's are such a sham and stressor. they saw to it their doctors do not have to diagnose & to have C&Ps on average be shoddy exams, thus, veteran will be denied or give up and too, get sicker usually. i say sicker becuase years are passing along during this time for the veteran. look at that scenario -- is is designed so there is zero accountability in reality for the VA or its employee's, zero. it all falls back on the veteran in reality. now on paper, sure it looks like the VA has accountability, or via statements from Congress, but down on the street level with the veteran, nope, i don't see the accountability.

we all have been manipulated into becoming psuedo-para-legals or the like just to protect ourselves against this machine. and this after Congress suppossedly passes laws to protect the veteran. i'm almost monetary bankrupt from having to get outside medical diagnosis. i'll have medicare soon so that will help. yet, the VA has ways to penalize the veteran when seeking non-VA medical help. that's where strong accurate reliable IME's are such great tools.

i'm in awe at how veterans have pulled together via the internet and help each other at such sites as this, but from another perspective, look at how the VA has manipulated us into having to be this way -- that is the sheer effort it takes financially and legal too fight this machine.

so yes, i'm so grateful for your post that you concur with this. we can't be the only veterans that see/sense this. it is extremely political and money based in Washington with the VA. i don't even want to speculate how much influence the legal profession and big pharm on the VA. what a testbed of unknowing test subjects/samples they have with the veteran population.

why there arnen't more VA whisleblower's is beyond me. look how many veterans work there. you can't tell me they don't see much of this.

it having a Cabinet post, well, and we street level veterans have a chance against that and all the corruption in Washington? LOL

thank you