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Requested Increase, and they removed my Service Connection!
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flow1972
Every interaction with the VA Claims people makes me want to pull my hair out. I was granted SC for Asthma last year at 10% as worsened by service. 10% because I was on an Albuterol Inhaler as needed.
I submitted a Claim to increase the rating to 30% because I was recently put on an inhaled cortiso-steroid which would put me at 30%. I'll be damned if they didn't even examine me for it...they requested a DBQ from a Dr I've never seen who "decided" that basically it never should have been SC'd in the first place because though it does show I had to be treated in service and prescribed an inhaler (literally states I'd never needed one in 11 years prior to service) that he doesn't really think I even "have asthma" but if I do...it wasn't "worsened beyond normal disease progression".. Wait what? I don't really have it...but just in case..it didn't get worse by more than it would normally have. OMG!!!! I want to freaking scream right now!!!! He literally wrote some lengthy diatribe of my history where he double-talks the entire way through. Just exactly what IS "normal progression" for a disease I don't have, Mr. Asthma expert? He literally says two different things in one statement. Notes I've only been seen X amount of times...blah, blah, blah. Well, let me tell ya, Mr. Expert. The reg does not in any way state I have to be seen a specific number of times. Considering I hadn't been seen AT ALL for 11 years for anything even resembling Asthma prior to service...then even ONCE is MORE than before. What it states is was it "worsened"? No visits, no meds...to visits and meds = worse. I'm D-O-N-E with these idiots. I'm literally going to get a lawyer to deal with them. I am literally at 91.37% (was 92.23) with an open HLR on incorrect rating that should have also been at 30% with another open new Claim. This is nothing more than them TRYING TO KEEP VETERAN's FROM HITTING 100%!
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