Sleep Apnea

[john999]

What are the chances of winning a sleep apnea claim if you did not get sleep disturbance DX or treatment in service.  After I was DX'ed and SC'ed for DMII I developed sleep apnea.  I did have sleep problems in Vietnam but that was more not being able to sleep even when I was exhausted.  I got DMII and I got fatter and I developed OSA.  How would I go about SC-ing OSA since I already have high blood and CAD and with OSA I don't think I will live to be really old.    The OSA has got to be driving the risk factors up for the SC conditions.

[john999]

Allan

 

                All my SMR's from basic and AIT  are lost.  I have a few records Vietnam mostly the usual of vomiting and the runs from contaminated food and water. I swear I was at the medic's once a week getting something for to stop puking and crap running down my leg.   I think I was sick the whole year. Records from my 12 months at US permanent party are missing including two weeks in hospital for some kind of lung disease.  How can a Vietnam vet with half-ass records put together enough to pull an OSA claim. I got out in 1971.  Pretty soon that will be fifty years ago.  The timeline for DMII etc.  is that first I was DX'ed with DMII in around 2004 and PN.  Then a year later High Blood pressure.  Then about 3 years later CAD.  Sometime in 2012 I had a sleep study done and the study and pulmonologist said I had severe mixed sleep apnea.  Between the time I was DX'ed with DMII I probably gained 30 lbs.  I notice I have a hankering after surgery things that I did not have before.  I take Metformin and get 20% for DMII.

[Buck52]

allan 

if you have been S.C. For a condition &  then later on it can be caused by or related to OSA /SLEEP DISTURBANCE & a SPECIALIST OPINION is likely as not related to your now diagnose sleep apnea and prescribe C-PAP  that is the nexus you need.

basically you have service connection established/the Sleep Apnea would be a secondary condition related to the  Already S.C. Condition  ...this is a secondary  condition/disease  once this sleep apnea is approved to your S.C. Condition it becomes a part of that condition   this is how they rated such a new condition  but keep in mind they only rate on the severity of the new condition.

so you don't really need your SMR's you already established S.C.  just a Sleep specialist to nexus it .

but its not this eazy, they could deny on not enough evidence or say you never had a sleep disturbance on record while in the military.

   your lay statment and spouse lay statment will be a big part in getting the S.A. Approved As well as the specialist opinion for the secondary S.A. to your S.C. Condition/Disease.

Edited October 24, 2017 by Buck52

[john999]

Buck

                That's right!  I just need pulmonologist or sleep doctor to say the OSA is likely as not a result of DMII.  The thing is so far the sleep doctors have been shy of making that nexus.  The VA gave me a CPAP and a doctor who does work at the VA actually did an operation on me to try and fix my OSA.  It is still not fixed and I take pills to overcome narcolepsy that is a result or maybe cause of my OSA.    This thing with my sleep is so screwed up and mixed in with other conditions.  I remember going berserk after I did not sleep for about a week in Nam.  That is in my SMR's.  If I got 50% for OSA that would make me scheduler 100% since I am 90% now.  After the TDIU reduction proposal I am more concerned with getting 100% and not just TDIU.  If I got 100% scheduler would that reset the 10 year period for DIC?

 

     

[Gastone]

What's your CAD Rating and date of DX? Any CAD surgical procedures?

I got a 2010 SA Secondary to 2006 CAD DX with Quad B-Pass SC Awarded in 2010 based strictly on my private Bd Certified Neurologist's Treatment Notes from my 1st office visit after the Sleep Study. Office call was $125.00.