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I’m going to make a long story short here LOL I filed a claim for PTSD and was denied and the claim has been sitting as an appeal since 2013. Since the VA acknowledged I suffer from depression NOS related to military service, I decided to file a claim for depression and anxiety. I go in for my 3rd C&P for mental health, but for depression and the Examiner is using the DBQ form, but he diagnoses me with PTSD according to the Case Management Rep. I spoke with. He proceeds to tell me that they want the Examiner to complete the PTSD DBQ and I will have to take another C&P exam sometime in the near future. This isn’t the first time this has happened to me with mental health exams. My first C&P the examiner stated I experienced what every soldier does in a combat environment and proceeded to state I didn’t have PTSD but depression; however, the VA didn’t give me any disability for it at all. Now my claim has went from a July 2016 completion date to November 2016 and back to gathering dust instead of prep for decision. My questions are:
1. If you go in for a C&P exam and the examiner finds something else wrong and attributes it to military service is the VA not supposed to look into it or give you a rating for the new disability? I thought I read that somewhere in a VA reg., but I could be wrong.
2. Should I take another C&P exam especially if this is an administrative issue?
The worst part about it all is my medicine cocktail is for individuals suffering from PTSD, but every VA mental health doctor even the good ones will tell me to my face I have PTSD, but stop short when it comes to annotating it in my medical records.
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smoothc100
I’m going to make a long story short here LOL I filed a claim for PTSD and was denied and the claim has been sitting as an appeal since 2013. Since the VA acknowledged I suffer from depression NOS re
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Berta, It was originally denied because there was nothing in my Army medical records, but I have been receiving treatment by the VA while in the Air Force. They also stated the timeframe from the
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Kosovo, eh? Another one of those forgotten campaigns that you never hear anything about.
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