New Diagnosis being put in by the VA?

[doctj22]

I made a new claim for major depressive disorder, and at the same time re-opened a claim for hearing loss because I had found the required paperwork finally that the Army lost somehow..

  These were the only two diagnosis that I had claimed in my FDC. After a few months I got a call from a Va doctor in white city who wanted to do an over the phone C&P regarding migraines, because during my hearing C&P I had said I had migraines secondary to tinnitus. Now on E-benefits I see that someone has added (Migraines New) to the list of things being claimed. 

Does this happen a lot? Will it effect the time it takes to decide my claim?
 

[Richard1954]

I don't know if it will add to the time it takes to process a claim, but I do know that all veterans should fight against the practice of Acceptable Clinical Evidence exams.  This is the name of C/P exams that are conducted over the phone.  They do not allow a doctor to actually examine the veteran, they just review the records ask a few questions over the phone sometimes, and sometimes they do not even call the veteran. I had a ACE conducted on me for a heart condition with out my even knowing it, when I raised the issue in a public forum at the Local VA, and demanded a hands on exam which I finally got.   Not less than a month later another doctor called me to do an ACE for sleep apnea. I hung up the phone on the doctor, ( who actually trained to be a doctor in Burma) and immediately called the VA and demanded them to do a hands on exam or I would immediately get my Congressman involved, ( who's office is on the way to the local va).  The results of the ACE heart exam were actually different than the hands on exam. The results of the ACE sleep apnea  exam actually resulted in a denial 4 days later.  The hands on exam was different and I was awarded Sleep Apnea 50%. Look,  hands on  C/P exams present problems from foreign educated doctors, to doctors educated in a foreign country, to PA's who have no business being a PA, to NP who in my experience are the worse.  And to top it all of you get someone who has an accent so thick you cannot understand a thing they say. But with all the problems, they are still better than an ACE examination. It should be unlawful for an ACE exam for compensations purposes or for that matter any other purpose. The va does this to save money and no other reason.  The started doing ACE's in 2013 and in some cases they will call identify themselves as a va employee ask a few questions about a condition  and then never tell you what they are really doing it happened to me. I don't like these exams, its not fair to the veteran, and there is no way that an ACE will catch all the problems. Fore example try doing an ACE for a knee injury, how in hell can the examiner see your face wince in pain when they can't even touch you!  Anyway best of luck to you , I hope you get the award your looking for.