LHI tomorrow

[Riplip]

Well I have my C&P tomorrow at LHI about my Meniere's claim. Should be an adventure. Going to a place that doesn't specialize in anything close to what I'm being examined for. All the new rating and nightmares I hear from everyone. I have to drive 1 hour and 20 minutes to a company that has another office 20 mins from me. I almost just quit the claim and left well enough alone but I think thats what they want. I hope I get a person that listens and reads all my doctors notes. I'll check ebenefits later today to see if I get denied before i even have my examine like last time lol. 

[brokensoldier244th]

Not sure what the alternative is if the only available examiner is there. We don’t schedule the times, and the place defaults to the vendors. They then schedule time and place, and there are more of them than va clinics. If it was just va you’d be waiting longer and traveling further. 

[Mr cue]

14 minutes ago, brokensoldier244th said:

They then schedule time and place, and there are more of them than va clinics. If it was just va you’d be waiting longer and traveling further. 

We understand that the VA feel and have default to the private contractor.

Doesn't make it right and soon or later it will end.

If you think Congress is going to allow veterans to travel 2 3 hour for a exam when the hospital is 10 mins away.

Based on the you wait longer at the hospital is bull.

I never wait more than 2 weeks to be scheduled.

But I am going to let you have that one. Smh

[Rivet62]

On 3/22/2022 at 8:02 AM, shrekthetank1 said:

If you have any paperwork from your doctor to show your issues, I would take it with you and highlight the important parts.  I had to do that with Dercums disease as they have no idea what it is.

I had to find a Skin specialist to tell me what it was and what kind of lipomas I have.  I did not to this to start with and it cost me 10 years of fighting.  

Anything you can do to help them will help you in the long run

My C&P examiner for my back issues told me that he looks at all records after the exam. I had records in hand. I had uploaded the most recent radiology reports. And yet, he said he had not looked at the uploads prior to the exam. He said he reviews all the records after the exam.  I dunno... I think it was a good exam. He said he used to work as a doc at the VA and had a few negative things to say about VA's treatment of vets. I think it was a good exam, but because of the way he does it he reviews everything after the exam before submitting his opinion. I dunno yet...

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[Riplip]

OK so I know my thread got compromised but I hope some are still following. I have an update from last nights call. Here's the backlog to my story. File claim for Menieres. Get C&P exam quite a drive away but go to it and it seems well. 2 1/2 weeks go by and I receive an email stating I have another C&P exam scheduled for hearing loss on 4/27 5 minutes from where I work. All good except I'll be out of state on vacation from 4/21 to 5/2. That same day I call them and tell them I won't be able to make that due to prior plans and will be out of state. They say thats fine we will reschedule after 5/3. All good. The next day (yesterday) they send me an email stating I have an appt. rescheduled on 4/29 2 hours away from me in another state. I call them last night and told them I spoke to one of there representatives the night before and I can't make anything in that 10 days period. We him and haw for quite a few minutes, I ask for a manager and I talk to her and she said since I'm canceling this appt. its being sent back to the VA. I think this is outrageous, I don't even see how it is legal. I wasn't even given a chance to make this. I told them I can see someone anytime from now until 4/20 and anytime after 5/3. Nope the VA guidelines state this and that. You will have to take it up with the VA. So now I plan on getting a instant deny and have to start all over. I know it will fall on dead ears but where can I make a complaint. I want to file a formal complaint to every possible office that I can. If this is happening to me its happening to others and it is unfair to anyone having to deal with issues. That my rant. Sorry but thanks for listening if you did.  

[brokensoldier244th]

1 hour ago, Rivet62 said:

Just the very idea that a simple request for increase allows them to review the existing claim and rating, rather than simply an increase based on where things are now, is utterly terrifying.  I filed a claim for unemployability, based on my combined rating of 80% and I guess I was naive because I thought it was a matter of simply looking at the difficulties I've had in getting and maintaining employment. No. They open up the entire file from start to finish to re-evaluate the service-connected disabilities to re-determine a nexus in the first place?? Maybe. If not that, then shoot it down to a meaningless amount?   

Anxiety? Ha!  I understand.

I was naive. I'm 80%. So I file a claim for unemployability, but by doing so I've just given them the gun and all the ammo to shoot my 80% down? Yeah, probably.

I haven't gotten a decision yet. I had C&P exams in January.

IU is considered a claim for increase based on all disabilities that affect you. You are saying you can’t work, pay me 100%, outside the ratings schedule, because of your disabilities. Why wouldn’t they all be looked at? You may not see it that way but it’s a benefit to you. If all they asked for was what you thought was the issue and you only put one thing, and that wasn’t enough to move the needle rather than just considering all of them and how they affected you would you feel the same way? Or would you then be upset that all other possibilities weren’t considered as contributors? 
 

It’s also not like all va disability money paid out isn’t followed by people in Congress that would live nothing better than for you not to get it at all. It does have to be justified. I’m sorry that many of you feel that is onerous but at some point there has to be some accountability. Just like when the government spends money on something that doesn’t affect you and that you don’t agree with. 

[Mr cue]

Smh sorry you have to play these games.

I would call the white house hotline sn tell them there was no way you could travel 2 hr.

And you try to  get another appointment and the company refuse an told the VA you refuse the exam.

This will be out in your record.

I would write a statement today an upload it stating the same thing.

Fill you record with statements.

They will order a new exam.

It will take about 30 day for it to turn around happen to me try to make me travel 2 hr away.

Same thing they try to say I refuse there exam because I refuse to travel 2 hr away.

But some will say this is legal and the VA would never do anything to hurt the veteran.

Good luck