ptsd C&p Ptsd- Last Of The Exams But This Doctor Didn't

[Guest jangrin]

My husband Went to the VA today for the C&P exam for PTSD. This is how it went:

Wife was not allowed in the room during the exam

The doctor did not have the c-file “file folder” only the computer screen and a clip

board with a couple sheets of paper he printed off the computer.

Doctor did not have any records of my husband ever being treated by VA for

Mental health PTSD /Depression

No records from the examination of the Psychiatrist for Social Security

The only record he had was from The VARO in California where the Psychiatrist

diagnosed Chuckles with Depression and put him on medication.

The C&P doctor told my husband that he was going to increase his mediation but

was not treating him-

Then he told my husband that his diagnosis is Anxiety with PTSD as stressors. He

said he could not diagnosed him with PTSD as primary because he said it did not

effect my husband’s working? As you know my husband is on SSDI for physical

and mental disability.

Then he showed my husband the bottom of one of the papers that said “Stressors

Confirmed”

By the way my husband said the doctor was pleasant ( if that means anything)

NOW WHAT SHOULD WE DO?

[Guest jangrin]

Jangrin said, "Now that it is over (one way or the other) Is a really good thing no matter what the outcome."

NO.... not if you want to get your just reward...... or just let it go as many, many, 1000s of Vets do in such cases. It takes time, work, and persistence to win..... but it will come, eventually.

1968,

I want my husband to get his "just reward". And to set the record straight like you advised we need to keep after the claim, and we will. I really appreciate the encouragment to keep on moving on with the ultimate goal of being service connected at the desired amount that we feel my husband is intitled to.

There is something that I would like to share with you, and that is, like you, my husband never shared all of his "devils" with me. My husband and I have been best friends for years. It has only been in the last 2 years that I have known and understood what I call these "devils" that continue to haunt the most caring, loving and tenderhearted man I have ever met.

Yes the VA C&P doc rated my husband with a GAF (I'm sure) but between you and me, that GAF doesn't mean squat when you look at the big picture. I would like the VA to do the right thing, but more importantly, I want my husband to know how proud I am of being his wife and how glad I am that he is the father of my children. If things don't happened the way they are suppose to , I will be asking you and everyone else on Hadit to help us with this claim and the PTSD. Yes we will fight...... but.... today....I am glad that we are done with,C&P exams and doctors who are strangers expecting my husband to open up to them about his personal life and his military experiences JUST because of the VA and the god awful requirements required for stressor and PTSD symptom verification.

PTSD will always be with us, but the exams and strangers won't. Going to that exam was probably one of the hardest things my husband has ever had to do. ANd he did it for his family, he never would have done it for any other reason. He absolutely can not talk about his RVN time, it is still so very painful for him.

Today we are glad to be through this process. Tomorrow we will be ready to fight another day.

Thanks for the gentle push, we'll be ready much before the VA is. We will NOD or appeal if we don't agree with the decision when they finally rate the claim, when ever that is. But this was a victory for one man and his personal fight with PTSD, and he WON. I pray for every single vet who suffers for this awful condition that they too will experience a victory over this debilitating and controling menace, PTSD.

Jangrin

Edited March 9, 2007 by jangrin

[Objee]

1968,

I want my husband to get his "just reward". And to set the record straight like you advised we need to keep after the claim, and we will. I really appreciate the encouragment to keep on moving on with the ultimate goal of being service connected at the desired amount that we feel my husband is intitled to.

There is something that I would like to share with you, and that is, like you, my husband never shared all of his "devils" with me. My husband and I have been best friends for years. It has only been in the last 2 years that I have known and understood what I call these "devils" that continue to haunt the most caring, loving and tenderhearted man I have ever met.

Yes the VA C&P doc rated my husband with a GAF (I'm sure) but between you and me, that GAF doesn't mean squat when you look at the big picture. I would like the VA to do the right thing, but more importantly, I want my husband to know how proud I am of being his wife and how glad I am that he is the father of my children. If things don't happened the way they are suppose to , I will be asking you and everyone else on Hadit to help us with this claim and the PTSD. Yes we will fight...... but.... today....I am glad that we are done with,C&P exams and doctors who are strangers expecting my husband to open up to them about his personal life and his military experiences JUST because of the VA and the god awful requirements required for stressor and PTSD symptom verification.

PTSD will always be with us, but the exams and strangers won't. Going to that exam was probably one of the hardest things my husband has ever had to do. ANd he did it for his family, he never would have done it for any other reason. He absolutely can not talk about his RVN time, it is still so very painful for him.

Today we are glad to be through this process. Tomorrow we will be ready to fight another day.

Thanks for the gentle push, we'll be ready much before the VA is. We will NOD or appeal if we don't agree with the decision when they finally rate the claim, when ever that is. But this was a victory for one man and his personal fight with PTSD, and he WON. I pray for every single vet who suffers for this awful condition that they too will experience a victory over this debilitating and controling menace, PTSD.

Jangrin

Jangrin, trust this will work out the way you guys need. In any event, please tell your hubby that we're proud for his ability to cut loose with the demons that assail him. Takes a lot of guts, and he should be very proud! Congrats to him!!!

Ralph

[betrayed]

Talk about timing, I filed a VAOIG complaint against a C&P examiner who was a nurse fro not finding my heart disease, they blew me off with usual mumbo jumbo. Then I sent a response letter to them stating that they did not have my cfile and if they had they would have found my heart disease instead of telling me i had a healthy heart when I was a walking heart attack, any way I got this in the mail yesterday. I think you got em by the short hairs if the report is not in your favor, then raise hell and ask for another exam with the cfile present/

Edited March 10, 2007 by BETRAYED

[john999]

Persistence is the key. You don't have to have the perfect claim or know the regs backwards and forwards (It would help if you did) but you must simply persist and never take NO for a final answer. When the VA says "NO" that is the opening gambit in the game of chess. Turn over every rock and you will beat these guys because you have more to win or lose.

[Guest jangrin]

Talk about timing, I filed a VAOIG complaint against a C&P examiner who was a nurse fro not finding my heart disease, they blew me off with usual mumbo jumbo. Then I sent a response letter to them stating that they did not have my cfile and if they had they would have found my heart disease instead of telling me i had a healthy heart when I was a walking heart attack, any way I got this in the mail yesterday. I think you got em by the short hairs if the report is not in your favor, then raise hell and ask for another exam with the cfile present/

BETRAYED,

Thank you so much. That is precisly the type of information we will need to fight for the PTSD. Timimg, NO I think not, more like DEVINE intervention.

We will start to prepare for the request for another examination (after we get our own IME/IMO from our private doctor. We are going to begin the process for that now as we are seeing the writting on the wall. I'm not sure who posted it, I think it was JOHN999, that all the older vets will be taking a back seat to the more "popular IRAQ war vets" when it comes to claims. I figure we have plently of time to start preparing the NODs and any appeals.

Thanks for sharing your letter with us. It's things like this that make Hadit the best place for veterans.

Jangrin and Chuckles

[betrayed]

BETRAYED,

Thank you so much. That is precisly the type of information we will need to It's things like this that make Hadit the best place for veterans.

Jangrin and Chuckles

You know what else is ironic, they just requested a medical opinion on me and my cfile wasnt there, it states in the request that both the VARO and the Doctor agree the cfile isnt needed in my case to form the med opinions, this is just more proof the VARO goes by the rules only when they want to. I dont have anything to complain about because the medical opinions were very favorable to me, but I am not gonna let them get away with it I am gonna let them know they just screwed up again.