Daughter of Vet-I have Chloracne BAD-Is there help for me?

[Daughter with Chloracne]

My father served in Vietnam 1969-1975, he was exposed to Agent Orange when it was sprayed to knock the jungle down-he reported the outbreak of Chloracne to the doctors at the VA, he got it on his back-most of his back. He had my first older sister who got it on her face, back and arms. My second oldest sister only got it on her chin. My identical twin and I got it really BAD, we had it on our face, backs, necks, chests, behind our ears, sometimes in our groin too-we had to take a 9 month course of Accutane back in 1994-1995. It cleared until we had our kids, mine came back with a vengeance so bad I had to get back on Accutane (generic version) just a few years ago, on for 6 months-off for 2, back on for 6 months. I have been sickly most of my life. My bones have always hurt, but it is much worse now, began getting really bad when I was 30, I have lesions in my brain, degenerating disc disease, peripheral neuropathy, arthritis all over my body, and many other issues-my daughter was born with a premature fusion in her skull and had to have skull surgery to save her life-is there help for kids of vets or grandkids? My father was denied by the VA back in the 80s when he attempted to get help, it wasn't as bad for him as it's been for me and my twin-I'm terrified my kids are going to get this terrible skin condition, for years between the ages of 12-15 I prayed every night I would die in my sleep-the sores on our backs were EXCRUCIATING, I have pictures of then and pictures of now-no dermatologist has seen anything like it. The Accutane has given me it's own side effects, it has encouraged the extreme pain all over my body to hurt more, my joints to ache sharper, my eyes hurt so much...please please say there is help for us-if not, please tell me how to set it up so we can get help. Daddy is in his 70s now, he won't live forever, he deserves the benefits so many others deserve and have NOT gotten, I am trying to help him, and we are also paying for is exposure to this toxic chemical, I cannot believe how forgotten our veterans are about this, I have suffered over 25 years because of that extreme acne...any tips or advice would be much appreciated. I pray this isn't a repeat, but if it is, I do apologize. Thank you for letting me be part of your community, I think what you're doing to help each other is so very awesome. God Bless.

[Berta]

sorry, I posted this on the wrong page-same reply-

Cover the C file #, ame, etc, prioring to scanning it.

You might want to contact Jerry Wright, as GBArmy has his contact info-as maybe you could help them get that Bill through congress/senate-

The bill is to extend the manifestation times of 3 AO presumptives.

Chloracne regulations are here:

VA presumes chloracne in veterans is related to their exposure to Agent Orange or other herbicides during military service.  When the disease appears within one year of exposure to Agent Orange to a degree of 10 percent disabling by VA’s rating regulations, service connection is awarded.  VA mandates the one-year period after exposure because dioxin-associated chloracne presents shortly after exposure.  Therefore, there is no risk of new cases occurring long after service in Vietnam, or such cases would not be related to Agent Orange exposure.  Chloracne is rated as follows under 38 CFR § 4.118, Schedule of ratings – Skin using Diagnostic Code (DC) 7829:

https://cck-law.com/blog/chloracne-and-agent-orange-benefits/

I hope your father has his SMRs and that his discharge certificate shows skin condition-

but when was he formally diagnosed with Chloracne and has he had subsequent continuous treatment for it, since his Vietnam service.

This will  be a very difficult claim to prove, and this is why I asked what other diagnosed conditions he has because there are many conditions that are presumptive to AO without the one year manifestation period.

I will see if I can find any other Chloracne awards at the BVA.

 

 

[Berta]

You asked:

" I have the form but I don't know hoe to upload it, all it offers is to insert a web address,  is there an email I can send the information to and then perhaps you can post it here? "

By 'form' do you mean the VA denial Letter?

I assume this was scanned into a pfd. or a doc, or docx, so just go to the choose files thing below and your pdfs or word docs will open and just click on the one you want to attach here.

Sometimes I make pdfs, from scans  and sometimes I put the scanned info into a Word doc and then I just copy it and paste it here.