Any VA Compensation Rater person out there?

[aztecb]

VA Compensation Rater Person,

Can you tell me if my situation qualifys for VA IU compensation.
I just had a pre rating exam yesterday. The examiner said "you asked for an increase in compensation and you are worse than your last rating increase". If my past experience is a guide I will not know for maybe three or more months what the VA has determined.

I know that the examiner ( Doctor ) doesn't rate you. Can you a person who does the rating, say if my situation will qualify me for 100% IU.

Flexeril a VA prescribed medication for a SC single injury rated at 60% causes me to be dizzy and drowsy. Last Feb. I fell and aggravated my back condition.

After missing work for 6 months my employer terminated my employment because I am still not able to work.

I have applied for IU for the following reasons
Single injury rated SC at 60%
Cannot work because of injury
employer terminated my employment,
I was a road maintence supervisor and now I don't drive
I Have a high school GED
I am 65 years old

I would like to have high hopes for a positive VA decision. If I have given you enough information please tell me if you can.

My computer will be packed tomorrow for a move to Texas. So if you answer.
later, then it will be 2-3 weeks before I can read your response.

Thanking you in advance.

Aztecb

[stumpy]

Well you meet the criteria for IU. However, no one can tell you how the VA will rate you with any certainty. IMHO, I think you have a very good chance. Have a safe trip to Texas as I live in Texas too.

[aztecb]

Thank you stumpy.

I am moving to Quitman 90 miles east of Dallas. It might have 2200 people and is a good location for seeing our folks.

again thank you

aztecb@peoplepc.com

[TinCanMan]

Aztecb:

I'm not a ratings specialist but you can go to the "release of information" office at the VAMC where you had your C&P exam about a week after the exam and ask to have them mail you a copy of the exam and the examiners conclusions regarding your condition. His conclusions will be important to the ratings specialist in determining if your medical condition meets the requirements for IU.

[babyduck16r]

Aztecb
go to your primary doctor and have he/she to write a letter,saying you are
unemployable,because of your service connected injury and will unlikely,to be able to perform sustained gainful employment in the future.Get a letter from your supervisor stating the reason you was terminated.IF you can get your VA doctor write you a letter also and how medicine effect you.I hope this helps
babyduck

[stumpy]

aztecb, I hope your a Bass fisherman. You will be living just a stone throwing distance from one of the Best Bass fishing lakes in the Country.

[danbo777]

hi fellows, i utilized private doctors under the uniformed services family health plan --but my agent orange exposure was slam dunk being in the III corps area most heavily sprayed area in the whole country. So the va doctor pretty much couldn't go against my well documented application and all the 3 private doctors statements. Nothing like having plenty of documentation to back up yor claim. regards to all.

[Cavman]

Originally Posted by danbo777

hi fellows, i utilized private doctors under the uniformed services family health plan --but my agent orange exposure was slam dunk being in the III corps area most heavily sprayed area in the whole country. So the va doctor pretty much couldn't go against my well documented application and all the 3 private doctors statements. Nothing like having plenty of documentation to back up yor claim. regards to all.

danbo777:

I was also in III corps in the Tay Ninh Province along the Cambodian Border. Two purple hearts, CIB etc. Diagnosed with stage 4 tonsil cancer spread to nodes. I had a letter from my surgeon/cancer doc stating this should be cobered and very likely AO caused my cancer. I was just denied. Curious, what outfit were you in. I was in the 11th Cav.

[jimmymac2]

I was in II Corps and my squamous cell cancer of the mouth and jaw bone was denied too. One of my surgeons said that AO could have been the cause but the VA is quite specific as to the types of cancer attributable to AO! When 90% of the vets are dead they will increase the types of cancer that herbicides caused in SE Asia. Your best hope is to outlive the mortality tables and then get compensated

[rainvet]

I was in Corp III and I have been turned down for Agent Orange claim. I was housed on the perimiter and was in and around the Orange stuff for the whole toun there. RainVet !

[TinCanMan]

rainvet:

If you served in country and have been diagnosed with one of the 11 conditions presumptive of exposure to AO (dioxin), you can easily be service connected. What condition are you claiming? Exposure to agent orange is not a condition and is not compensable in and of itself.

[eldoliver]

Just looking through all the research reports on dioxin on the net. and it amazes me that anyone could say it don`t cause cancer.. I get like this every time I go for a treatment.. just at the V A WHERE IM treated there are five other Vietnam vets with renal cell cancer..not to mention all the other kinds. OF CANCER...and at times they have to fight them for the latest medicine.. .well happy new year all, hope you stay healthy and live FREE!.....Dave.

[TinCanMan]

Well. actually no one is saying dioxin doesn't cause cancer. It just doesn't cause renal cell cancer and it isn't the VA that made that determination, it was the National Institutes of Medicine. The following is a list of the conditions associated with AO exposure.

Prostate Cancer
Respiratory Cancer (cancers of the lung, bronchus, larynx, or trachea)
Hodgkins’ Disease
Chloracne
Multiple Meyeloma
Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (see list of associated terms below)
Acute and Subacute Peripheral Neuropathy
Porphtria Cutanea Tarda
Soft Tissue Sarcomas (see list below)
Diabetes Type II
Disabilities in the children of a herbicide exposed veteran (see list below)

Common terms associated with Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphomas

B-cell and T-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas
Lymphocytic, well, poorly differentiated
Prolymphocytic
Hairy cell
Lymphoplasmacytic
Immunocytoma
Plasmacytic
Centroblastic
Centrocytic
Follicular
Nodular
Diffuse
Undifferentiated
Immunoblastic
Large cell anaplastic
Burkitt’s lymphoma
Lymphoblastic, convoluted, nonconvoluted
Mycosis fungoides
Sezary mycosis fungoides
Lymphoepithelioid
Angiommunoblastic
Pleomorphic
Small lymphocyte
Plasmacytoid lumphocyte
Follicular center cell, small, large, cleaved, noncleaved
Follicular center cell, sclerotic
Convoluted lymphocyte
Histiocytic, with, without sclerosis
Malignant lymphoma, low, intermediate, high grade
Malignant lymphoma, small lymphocytic
Malignant lymphoma, follicular
Malignant lymphoma, diffuse
Malignant lymphoma, small, large cell, cleaved, noncleaved
Malignant lymphoma, immunoblastic
Malignant lymphoma, plasmacytoid
Malignant lymphoma, clear cell
Malignant lymphoma, polymorphous
Malignant lymphoma, epithelioid
Malignant lymphoma, convoluted, nonconvoluted
Malignant lymphoma, extrameduliary plasmacytoma
Malignant lymphoma, unclassified
Composite lymphoma

Types of Soft Tissue Sarcomas

Adult Fibrosarcoma
Alveolar soft part sarcoma
Angiosarcoma
Clear cell sarcoma of aponeuroses
Clear cell sarcoma of tendons and aponeuroses
Congenital fibrosarcoma
Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans
Ectomesenchymoma
Epithelioid malignant leiomyosarcoma
Epithelioid and glandular malignant schwannomas
Epithelioid sarcoma
Extraskeletal ewing’s sarcoma
Hemangiosarcoma
Infantile fibrosarcoma
Leiomyosarcoma
Liposarcoma
Lymphangiosarcoma
Malignant fibrous histiocytoma
Malignant giant cell tumor of the tendon sheath
Malignant glandular schwannoma
Malignant glomus tumor
Malignant hemangiopericytoma
Malignant mesenchymoma
Malignant ganglioneuroma
Malignant granular cell tumor
Malignant leiomyoblastoma
Malignant synovioma
Malignant schwannoma with rhabdomyoblastic differentiation
Proliferating (systemic) angiendotheliomatosis
Rhabdomyosarcoma
Synovial sarcoma

Disabilities in the Children of Herbicide Exposed Veterans

Spina Bifida except Spina Bifida Occulta

Certain birth defects in the children of female Vietnam veterans--example:

Cleft lip and cleft palate
Congenital heart disease
Congenital talipes equinovarus (club foot)
Esophageal and intestinal atresia
Hallerman-Streiff syndrome
Hip dysplasia
Hirschprung’s disease (congenital megacolon)
Hydrocephalus due to aqueductal stenosis
Hypospadias
Imperforate anus
Neural tube defects (including spina bifida, encephalocele and anencecphaly)
Poland syndrome
Pyloric stenosis
Syndactyly (fused digets)
Tracheoesophageal fistula
Undescended testicle