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Started conversation: 12 hours ago    (in my profile)-you need more eyes on this in the main forum here.

You said "Why wouldn't they close out the PTSD / Sinitus? Below is my full claim package. I'm a Purple Heart recipient with over a dozen combat deployments.  Looking for guidance as QTC - THE VA - have no answers to when my claim with be completed."

If you already got a C & P exam for the PTSD, and if it is favorable, that, with the Purple Heart should be a no-brainer, for the VA to be awarded but I feel you should have claimed it as PTSD with n other MH disabilities listed.

A deferred situation means they have a lot more work to do on the claim. You listed so many disabilities, that obviously that all will take time.

None of us ever have any good idea of when a claim will be completed.

Meantime, I suggest you go over the forums here and you might be eligible, when they finish the claim, for CRDP/or CRSC- in addition to your Military retiree payments. CRDP and CRSC are searchable here.

Are all of these disabilities listed on your discharge certificate?

Do you have a confirmed diagnosis yet for any of them, in addition to the tinnitus?

I have dealt with the Buffalo VARO for over 20 years- some of the conditions are not clearly defined in medical terms that VA can comprehend.

Do you have a vet rep representing you?

 

 

 

RG35 said:

I see you are living in NY and I just retired from 20 years of service in the USN and moved back to Buffalo.  Because of COVID i have only had 3 appointments through QTC which were Mental Health (Video Interview), Sinituis, and Hearing. 

I submitted in May and today in the Mail received 10% for tinnitius and the rest of my claim was deferred.

Why wouldn't they close out the PTSD / Sinitus? Below is my full claim package. I'm a Purple Heart recipient with over a dozen combat deployments.  Looking for guidance as QTC - THE VA - have no answers to when my claim with be completed. 

 

  • R RHOMBOID TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE STRAIN (New)
  • SINUSITIS (New)
  • R BICEP ELBOW TENDINITIS (New)
  • L EYE CORNEAL ABRASION (New)
  • L HIP BONE CONTUSION (New)
  • L ELBOW PAIN STRAIN LIMITED ROM (New)
  • R EYE CORNEAL ABRASION (New)
  • L BIG TOE LACERATION WITH SCAR (New)
  • R ELBOW BICEP TENDINITIS (New)
  • R SHOULDER MUSCLE STRAIN WITH NEURAPRAXIA (New)
  • CHRONIC MIGRAINE HEADACHES (New)
  • R FOREARM SCARS FROM TRAUMA FROM MILITARY WORKING DOG BITE (New)
  • R FOOT HEEL RETRO CANEAL BURSITIS (New)
  • BILATERAL PES PLANUS (New)
  • DERMATITIS (New)
  • COSTOCHONDRITIS CHEST PAIN (New)
  • GERD (New)
  • LOWER BACK STRAIN LUMBAR SPONDYLOSIS (New)
  • ACQUIRED PSYCHIATRIC DISABILITY TO INCLUDE ADHD
  • PTSD
  • ADJUSTEMENT DISORDER
  • PANIC DISORDER
  • UNSPECIFIED MOOD DISORDER
  • SLEEP INITIATION INSOMNA (New)
  • R KNEE PATELLO FEMORAL SYNDROME PATELLO TENDINITIS (New)
  • R ILIOTIBIAL BAND SYNDROME (New)
  • L ANKLE DOG BITE SCAR (New)
  • CERVICAL NECK SPRAIN CHRONIC PAIN SPONDYLOSIS CERVICALAGIA (New)
  • L ARM PUNTURE WOUND SCAR (New)
  • L INNER THIGHT MILITARY WORKING DOG BITE SCAR (New)
  • L UPPER THIGHT CONTUSION SCAR (New)
  • L KNEE CONTUSION SCAR (New)
  • R KNEE MCL STRAIN PAIN SPRAIN LIMITED ROM (New)
  • THORACIC BACK CHRONIC PAIN SPONDYLOSIS (New)
  • MULTIPLE FRAGMENTAION GRENADE INJURIES SCARS (New)
  • TINNITUS (New)
  • DRY EYE SYNDROME (New)
  • MULTIPLE CHEST MASSES
  • UPPER L
  • R
  • L MID CHEST (New)
  • LUMBAR BACK DYSFUNCTION (New)
  • R THIGH MWD MUSSLE STRICK CONTUSION SCAR (New)
  • L KNEE ITB SYNDROME (New)
  • 5 MM PINEAL CYST BRAIN (New)
  • L HAND FRACTURE CHRONIC PAIN LOSS OF GRIP (New)
  • B L GYNECOMASTIA (New)
  • L HAND ARTHRALGIA (New)
  • MALE ED (New)
  • R ELBOW SUBLUXATION (New)
  • DYSLIPIDEMIA (New)
  • L KNEE DERMATFIBROMA (New)
  • VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY (New)
  • SLEEP DISORDER (New)
  • MULTIPLE TBI WITH ASSOCIATED MEMORY LOSS
  • SENSITIVITY TO LIGHT AND NOISE
  • IRRITABILITY AND ANGER
  • COGNITIVE DISORDER
  • DIZZINESS AND GIDDINESS (New)
  • R SHOULDER OSTEOPHYTE SYNOVITIS TENOSYNOVITIS (New)
  • R WRIST GANGLION CARPAL BONE MASS (New)
  • L RING FINGER PUNCTURE WOUND SCAR (New)
  • HEADACHE W PERIPHERAL VISION DISTURBANCE (New)
  • TMJ TMD (New)
  • THORACIC SPINAL DEGENERATION (New)
  • CHRONIC ALLERGIC RHINITIS (New)
  • TINEA PEDUS (New)
  • R OPEN CLAVICLE EXCISION (New)
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One of your issues is that you have multiple disabilities listed under the same systems I.e. mental health, for example. That’s going to take someone some time to Wade through and consolidate some of those so an exam can be drafted with the proper forms to the vendors.

 

deferrals aren’t closing out an issue they just mean that more work is needed on those contentions. 
 

your people heart should be a presumptive for ptsd/combat. 
 

that’s my really quick glance over while getting the kids ready for school...

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Yes, and many listed are too vague- and they will all need a nexus to your service.

For example

  • SENSITIVITY TO LIGHT AND NOISE ( possibly due to the headache claim ( which might be better worded as migraines, if you had that entry in your SMRs.
  • DIZZINESS AND GIDDINESS 
  • DRY EYE SYNDROME (New) might be part of a visual problem such as cataracts etc, 
  • MULTIPLE TBI WITH ASSOCIATED MEMORY LOSS. we have many TBI vets here and you will ned proof of the event that caused the TBI
  • DYSLIPIDEMIA- this is a medical term that I and the VA is very familiar witch can become a very serious condition., as it involves high triglycerides. I assume the military medicated you for this and that diagnosis and treatment would be found in your SMRS and thus would establish a nexus for that ,but I am not sure if this is a ratable condition-but consequences of it can be very serious disabilities. 

The best thing you could do, while waiting, is to make sure you have  complete copy of your Military Personnel file and your inservice SMRS ( inservice medical records).

I assume you left the Military with copies of them all, if not -I or someone will post a link to how to obtain them.

 

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In this recent BVA decision, the BVA states:

"The Board finds that an opinion by a VA examiner is needed as to whether his dyslipidemia, including a diagnosis for hyperlipidemia, is due to or otherwise related to service."

https://www.va.gov/vetapp20/files7/20046476.txt

In this recent decision the BVA states:

"FINDING OF FACT Dyslipidemia is a laboratory finding and it does not qualify as a disability for VA purposes."

https://www.va.gov/vetapp19/files11/19187188.txt

It is often a symptom that, if left untreated, can cause severe consequences.

It can cause a trilogy affect with poorly treated cholesterol levels. I know that because if was part of my wrongful death claim evidence against the VA. when my husband died.

It can definitely be treated medically.

 

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https://www.archives.gov/veterans/military-service-records

The NARA is affected by Covid ,in that their employees are not working regular hours etc, but they say they are still working on requests for records.

The format has changed , since I last used it but they will guide you through it to file a SF 180.

I hope however that you already have your inservice records, as these requests take some time to fulfill.

 

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