Third Time For Service Connected Issues

[klcolclasure]

Hello Everyone, I am the wife of a Retired Veteran. When he retired in Dec/2003 he was just happy he was getting a retirement check and some disability. I am the one that pushed him to go back because I work around active/retired folks and it's just wrong for VA not to grant him any additional percentage for service connected issues. Although we are grateful that we just got our claim back after a 2 yr wait and they did put him at 60% verses 40%, when reading their comments, it just makes me angry. I spent months putting together a record for them in chronological order with what we were claiming, dated....ect.....It was bad enough his record sat for the first yr. and they kicked it back cause they were over loaded. See they wanted him to have another C&P exam cause we were claiming alot. But atleast its done and over with. It just disappoints me that they only raised him 10% on three items.

He has had Gerd & IBS since 1999 and had the Lap Nissen surgery in 2007. But the after math from that has not stopped. He is so bloated, gassy, constipated, pain in his shoulder and pain. In 1999 they said he had gallballder problems but that was only one time, but yet he had to have his gallbladder out in 2007 and it's hard to link the two together. In 2006 bloody stool turned into a colonoscopy that was aTublar Adenoma w/ mild dysplasia, 2010 was antral and duodenal ulcers and today the bloating, gas, constipation and pain has not stopped. They saw were he has been to the doctor up to 40 times for all this. I do believe that Gerd and IBS has cause gallbladder and colon issues but can't find anyway to connect these. I am going back on this again.

[john999]

Get some IMO's and appeal!

[klcolclasure]

Thank you

[Berta]

John is right!

An Independent medical opinion should follow the IMO criteria here at hadit.

“I do believe that Gerd and IBS has cause gallbladder and colon issues but can't find anyway to connect these.”

An IMO doctor can do that, if the medical evidence warrants it.

“In 1999 they said he had gallballder problems but that was only one time, but yet he had to have his gallbladder out in 2007 and it's hard to link the two together.”

“In 2006 bloody stool turned into a colonoscopy that was aTublar Adenoma w/ mild dysplasia, 2010 was antral and duodenal ulcers ….”

A good IMO doctor could, in essense, give a second opinion on all of that as well and hopefully find the actual etiology (cause) for the adenoma or a strong mediocal link to his SC disabilities.

Some IMO doctors like Dr Craig Bash ( we did shows with him available in the SVR archives and I as well as others here have gotten IMOs from him), will often raise a new disability issue in their IMOs if possible,that could be claimed.

I prepared the IMO format here in our IMO forum based on the IMOs I got from him.

He used to work for VA as a doctor, so he knows exactly what the proper medical lingo must be within an IMO.

Any IMO doctor will need to review a comlete copy of all available medical records and also they would need to see either the decisions, or the copies o C & P exams for the decision or better yet-both.

[klcolclasure]

Thank you for the information....this is very helpful