I've been away from Hadit.com for the last few months due to work and travels issues. Anyway, I was recently diagnosed with Diabetes and prescribed Medforman and I'm wondering if its worth filing a disability claim for it? During my Army Career, my glucose numbers were always in the high range. Yesterday, I read the Diabetes Training letter and its a very scary disease. I'm already rated overall at 90% with a lot of the injuries stemming from a Tank Accident and Explosion that left me unable to do much physically. Over the span of my time in the Army my lipid counts and glucose levels were always high (109). I was also SC for Hypertensive Heart Disease during the processing of my claims. Ultimately, I'm trying to figure out if I should submit a disability claim for the Diabetes, because I also got very sick in the Middle East as a result of Ecoli Poisoning that I had gotten sick from at Camp Doha, Kuwait. After that incident, my blood pressure shot and remained up and my blood labs were never the same so there could be a connection? I spoke about this with another Vet who said unless a Vet is Vietnam Era and exposed Agent Orange, that SC is tough to obtain?
I've always gotten good advice from this forum and appreciate your help in advance..
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I've been away from Hadit.com for the last few months due to work and travels issues. Anyway, I was recently diagnosed with Diabetes and prescribed Medforman and I'm wondering if its worth filing a disability claim for it? During my Army Career, my glucose numbers were always in the high range. Yesterday, I read the Diabetes Training letter and its a very scary disease. I'm already rated overall at 90% with a lot of the injuries stemming from a Tank Accident and Explosion that left me unable to do much physically. Over the span of my time in the Army my lipid counts and glucose levels were always high (109). I was also SC for Hypertensive Heart Disease during the processing of my claims. Ultimately, I'm trying to figure out if I should submit a disability claim for the Diabetes, because I also got very sick in the Middle East as a result of Ecoli Poisoning that I had gotten sick from at Camp Doha, Kuwait. After that incident, my blood pressure shot and remained up and my blood labs were never the same so there could be a connection? I spoke about this with another Vet who said unless a Vet is Vietnam Era and exposed Agent Orange, that SC is tough to obtain?
I've always gotten good advice from this forum and appreciate your help in advance..
Rootbeer22
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In 1997 The World Health Organization changed the criteria for diabetes as far as glucose levels go. When I filed a claim for undiagnosed and untreated DMII due to AO my husband had been dead by
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A1C tests were current. Historically pre-diabetic- continual results just below 6.0. Doc finally decided on MEDs. after that, as I said went in for unrelated C&P and was surprisingly asked a
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