How Do You Prove Sc When There Is No Record

[boomer2]

Now for the rest of the story, while on active duty I was sent TDY to the base stockade as a guard for a month. MP's had some kind of special training to do. Anyway. I sat on a wooden chair in a gun tower for this time and guess what I got hemorrhoids. Well, they sent me to the Doc that handled the stockade and he gave me suppositories as medication. Well, now they are bleeding and the VA doc told me to file a claim. But, it is not in my SMR's that I got them while on active duty. Forget buddy letters because we were all from different units and didn't really know each other.

My question is how can I prove I got them while on active duty?

Edited August 15, 2013 by boomer2

[Philip Rogers]

What are you saying your hemorrhoids are from, sitting on a wooden box???

pr

[boomer2]

That is correct, It was wooden chair with no cushion. The doc said that was how I got them and he also said that most of the permanent guards had cushions they used while on duty.

[carlie]

I think this doc is full of it.

Way too many peeps spend time sitting on wooden chairs for years

and have no hemmi's.

I do not see any way to prove it unless you have some evidence of,

"Well, they sent me to the Doc that handled the stockade and he gave me suppositories as medication."

[Philip Rogers]

Hemorrhoids are basically a hernia of the sphincter caused by trying to force the bowels to move by bearing down and are often caused in childbirth. I doubt you got them from childbirth and to me "sitting on a wooden box" as a cause is almost laughable. Sorry. They used to tell us grunts we could get them by sitting on the bare ground, also not true. Good luck w/that claim. jmo

pr

[Hoppy]

The Luoyang Union Medical College Hospital, experts say:

Hemorrhoids are the end of the human rectum submucosal venous plexus in the anal skin expansion and buckling formed by the soft bolus. Clinical hemorrhoids is a very common disease of multiple According to statistics, the incidence of hemorrhoids in our adult up to 50% to 70% less active from the professional point of view, such as drivers, government workers, teachers, secretaries, computer operator sedentary occupational groups have a higher prevalence.

This is just one opinion. However, I did find a workers comp attorney who said that sitting for prolonged time periods reduces the blood flow causing hemorrhoids. If a workman's comp attorney would file a claim then I would consider filing one with the VA.

You will still need to deal with such issues as finding medical records, continuity of symptoms and whether or not the condition was considered chronic while in the military. Have you tried contacting the stockade clinic to see if they keep records.

[Philip Rogers]

Ya know you might have some evidence, if the sick call and what the doc did is documented. It should be . . . . somewhere.

pr