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Billyboy

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I have been fighting with the VA to grant me service connection for head injury. The VA insists there was no head injury. The VA says, April of 06 “There is still no medical evidence of a chronic disability related to military service” I have a statement of fact stating I did slip and fall while in service, although this person was not there he remembers me telling him of the event. (I never claimed anything else) I have my physiologist request a head scan because I told him I hit my head severely. The VA used this CT head scan as evidence to connect me with MDD, 50%. WHAT AM I TO DO??????? Now I know why Vets would just go and live under a bridge!

0% Hearing loss, 10% Tinnitus, 70% MDD, 100% TDIU Thanks to the vet (Gaylon) that help me get started, the county officer (Charles) and all the great people on HADIT

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Billyboy,

Like I said the VA was really liberal in granting service-connection for MDD based on the shrinks assessment from the CT scan. I assume though that the shrink also tied the needed psychological testing in withthe CTscan and his opinion so the diagnosis would have some credibility.

And like I said before, you're missing the nexus between the CT scan and the in-service head trauma to be rated seperately for post concussion residuals. My guess is, however, that if you get an IMO from a neorologist making a nexus statement of some sort for post concussion residuals too, they will not amount to anything more than a 10% evaluation under DC 8045, which as I said before, would be reverted to DC 9304 and in the end be 'lumped' together with the MDD and your overall percentage would remain unchanged.

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If I'm reading this right, your MDD is SC'd as a secondary condition of the residuals from the head injury. How could it be otherwise? If you had no residuals from the head injury, why would you be depressed? Typical VA illogic to deny...instead of granting you SC for the obvious. Almost seems like a CUE. Eventually, you should win your claim if you persist...I'd ask for a hearing.

I'm more or less in the opposite situation of you. I can't get SC'd for MDD. I'm SC'd 10% for post concussion syndrome from head injury, have EEG indicating "bifrontal intermittent rhythmic slowing" and CT scan indicating "mild frontal atrophy",(radiologist's impression: no abnormality. Huh???), yet the VA can't seem to see the connection. I also have MDD-severe and was given two neuropsych tests to determine what impairment was due to the MDD and what was due to the TBI. The neuropsych conclusion: depression-retest when depression is resolved! So, no farther ahead then when I started.

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