AD diagnosed start

[jfrei]

I've been having issues figuring out when it started and meet with my psychiatrist this week. Hopefully to discuss when it began I was diagnosed with depressive disorder in 2014 due to watching my friend die and again when it was filmed on Baghdad ER. When that happened I was dx right before my sTBI that I was acting reckless in behavior and shutting my family off from my life. Then my sTBI occurred and exacerbated it to the point where I've made very bad impulsive decisions to this day and I have no short term memory. My TBI is already rated with PTSD lumped in there but if my AD began before my TBI is this something they will lump in with that? VES has contracted my psych exam with the same doctor who lumped my ptsd with my TBI and she missed several issues with the ptsd exam I'm sure to bring up... but if she sees her mistakes is to late to amend her report to the VA I mean she said I had ptsd but couldn't speculate which symptoms were the TBI or PTSD?Maybe I should call VES to see if they can send me to a Neurologist/psychiatrist one with better abilities to differentiate?

Edited May 13, 2017 by jfrei

[Buck52]

jfrei

not sure why you want this S.C? 

here is some things I read about AD.

Most adults DX with ADHD  the percentage is high 70/80% had/started this in their childhood

You really need to watch out b/c this will probably prompt VA TO SEND YOU A proposal to reduce you or take away your PTSD Dx  and slap the AD, on you.

It Is possible to have it from TBI but getting a Specialist Dr to say that will be hard, if your Dr will state its least likely as not your AD is ''Related'' to TBI then you may have a chance to get it S.C.

 I don't think the Dr should state TBI is the cause  b/c that would be speculation.

[jfrei]

And it pre existed before my TBI. My ptsd diagnosed was just through into my TBI residuals and not rated seperately it continued my TBI rated at 70 even when they combined it with ptsd. My doctor isn't calling or ADHD they said it's just Adjustment disorder, which doesn't matter my coexisting TBI/ptsd is not a seperate rating anyways. In my exam 8/9/2016 the psychiatrist just doing th bare minimum before on the exam now has to look at when my AD started which she said was before my TBI. I now know I was arrested twice on my return home acting reckless and keeping myself away and turning on family prior to my TBI. I had to do all this searching because I do not remember anytime really from Sept. 2006 to roughly March 2007 and even the months afterwards are foggy which is due to my TBI. I know my TBI has definitely made my adjustment disorder more chronic but it definitely wasn't the start of it. In fact I can show the doctor it caused me to be in the car that night I may not have caused the crash of my car because of the defect but what happens if I can show had I not been suffering an AD my TBI would never had happen that night? I know that  it would have happened later anyways and I may have died like the other 125 paid off by GM but this is what drives me crazy with speculation so many things I would have gotten the recall 2 months after my TBI. Maybe I would have gotten it fixed my thick jar head probably wouldn't have but it's all a guess now as my coworkers tell my lawyers I'm damaged goods... so I guess I am trying to figure out what if my AD wasn't secondary to my TBI just made it chronic? If it began before my TBI how is it possible to be lumped in as a residual to my TBI having possibly been a cause to it? #asknod #buck52

 

Edited May 13, 2017 by jfrei

[jfrei]

[jfrei]

9 hours ago, Buck52 said:

jfrei

not sure why you want this S.C? 

here is some things I read about AD.

Most adults DX with ADHD  the percentage is high 70/80% had/started this in their childhood

You really need to watch out b/c this will probably prompt VA TO SEND YOU A proposal to reduce you or take away your PTSD Dx  and slap the AD, on you.

It Is possible to have it from TBI but getting a Specialist Dr to say that will be hard, if your Dr will state its least likely as not your AD is ''Related'' to TBI then you may have a chance to get it S.C.

 I don't think the Dr should state TBI is the cause  b/c that would be speculation.

 

My psychatrist at the VA has already suggested this occurred 

Edited May 13, 2017 by jfrei

[jfrei]

This was October of 2014 at my ptsd DBQ found i had depressive disorder no PTSD...

[jfrei]

Then in 2016 I had PTSD with a TBI and no way to show the difference