sleep apnea 50%""" back pain severve 40% at most

[RUREADY]

I have nothing wrong with the ones already getting the benefit

of you snoring while on active duty  but most of us was already

snoring when you started in high school, drinking & hanging but want VA

to pay you 50% for something everyone have after drinking and partying overnight

This rating sucks & need changes because now every vet files this now before retiring

and after they retire getting buddy statements and been snoring all their life before military

I have a cpap was it from meds I take or the liquor  I drink. VA pays for this but a man who lost

a leg in combat HE got to prove he lost that leg and where it was lost at. SAY U SNORE while active

50% . bull jmho

[Buck52]

I think RUREADY just loves to agure with everyone.

It should make no difference rather or not a veteran ask for S.A. or not its his claim his Business. if he has been diagnose with it and can prove he has it or symtoms of it during military  then Hell yes he should file a claim for it like yesterday.

Not all veteran are SC for S.A. that have it real bad although they can get a S.A. OSD diagnosed by the VA and get a CPAP machine.

It's good if they can get SC for S.A. but if they can't prove it or had it in the military  the VA is not going to SC it  unless you can prove a secondary SC Condition has caused it and you need a Dr to state this. OR  or Medications from SC PTSD as the cause of S.A.  This Hadit site with its member help a lot veterans that has a claim in for S.A.  we all try to help each other.

If you have SA  by all means I hope you can get a CPAP machine and use it.

I have S.A real bad and stop breathing but I use a CPAP machine and hope like hell I wake up every morning.

I have SC PTSD  and other SC Disabilitys and Rated 100% Plus SMC-S  H.B

Although I been diagnosed with S,A, by the VA I don't get a rating for it  but I appreciate the VA for getting me a CPAP Machine to use  so I can '' hopefully wake up'' every day.

 

....JMO

............Buck

[RUREADY]

I was trying to say in my post some thing the Sleep doctor

told me about getting SA sc he would not support SA secondary to depression,pain ,or PTSD

but he would support it for secondary to INSOMNIA which is a mental rating for sleep disorder

So its better to try to get SA secondary to insomnia. A 30 %rating for depression does not include

insomnia. A 50% rating for depression include insomnia. I would need to ask for a higher rating for mental

to 50%include insomnia and SA secondary to insomnia that's all I was saying get it sc at 0% but

if I win This TDIU claim for my back only then I would need 60% for smc .

I will post his note from my health vet Its just another way to get it service connected maybe

quicker than ptsd and or meds.

[RUREADY]

2 hours ago, Fat said:

Sleep Apnea can either be a anatomical or neurological situation and has nothing to do with snoring.

Due to anatomical reasons narrowed breathing space, structure of nose, uuvala size, neck circumference, etc.

All of these things attribute in the body taking in air during rest.

Neurological situations are when the brain impulses are vacated and the body temporarily stops breathing during the night.

Snoring really has nothing to do with sleep apnea.

The reason why its service connected is because most people with sleep apnea have anatomical deficiencies which probably had its origins on active duty.

We have to stop this mindset that people are trying to get over when they file a claim.

We should be encouraging all veterans to file claim claims which can be substantiated by medical evidence.

 

If VA spend the money and give every vet a sleep test before

service 80% of them will probably have it. jmho

Edited April 10, 2016 by RUREADY

[RUREADY]

23 minutes ago, Dot09 said:

Ruready,

In my experience with the va drs that treat you at the va will try to dodge compensation in general. I understand that the dr told you that your sleep apnea is secondary to your insomnia. That's just a bad response from that dr. Not all are good.

First off what was your sleep apnea diagnosis?

Was it obstructive, central or both?

Second where is your spine injury?

Is it the cervical, lumbar, thoracic or sacrum?

Third what medications do you take?

I ant just started this rodeo I had a sleep study done in 2013

at VA mild SA what I was told and given a cpap that's all they did to me

so I wanted another sleep study done They sent me too the sleep clinic

the head doctor said I don't need another study I ask what was the cause of it

meds, pain, depression, ptsd, I ask him if I file a claim for this as secondary

to the above he says no he wont sign it but he would say it was secondary to

insomnia in which is all over my mental records. H e would connect the dots

no IMO cost Just a doctor visit. Myhealth vet is down for me. AS for as my spine

just say I had my share of operations, nerve stimulator, narcotic, now just acupuncture

and feeling good,just might get this stimulator out soon.RU

[brokensoldier244th]

1 hour ago, Dot09 said:

Ruready,

In my experience with the va drs that treat you at the va will try to dodge compensation in general. I understand that the dr told you that your sleep apnea is secondary to your insomnia. That's just a bad response from that dr. Not all are good.

First off what was your sleep apnea diagnosis?

Was it obstructive, central or both?

Second where is your spine injury?

Is it the cervical, lumbar, thoracic or sacrum?

Third what medications do you take?

The Drs job is to treat you, not try to get compensation for disabilities. All they do is put X and Y into the notes. You can help this process by asking good questions during your appointments and working with the doctor, or you can hope and expect them to connect all of the millions of dots of what is possible or maybe on their own with little input from you. The raters job is to take the notes and turn them into a rating. Pursuing a VA doctor for a rating is a waste of time because it is not their job to get ratings- their job is to treat you. Focus on the treatment and the ratings will usually write themselves over your notes history. 

[RUREADY]

49 minutes ago, brokensoldier244th said:

The Drs job is to treat you, not try to get compensation for disabilities. All they do is put X and Y into the notes. You can help this process by asking good questions during your appointments and working with the doctor, or you can hope and expect them to connect all of the millions of dots of what is possible or maybe on their own with little input from you. The raters job is to take the notes and turn them into a rating. Pursuing a VA doctor for a rating is a waste of time because it is not their job to get ratings- their job is to treat you. Focus on the treatment and the ratings will usually write themselves over your notes history. 

all I do is ask if they agree fine, if not find one that will. Doctors notes have

gotten me IU just from their notes along Its good doctors and you have to ask for

what you need. Treating dr note is always better than an IMO. jmho