Hi Jason and all,
I'm currently in the IPEB phase and was able to receive my proposed ratings from the VA. I was referred for 5 conditions for my MEB and claimed 20 conditions overall to the VA. Of those 20 conditions, 11 of them were found to be service related. My overall rating was 90% rounded down from 93% (60, 50, 30, 20, 10, 10, 10, 10, 0, 0, 0). For background, I'm over 21 years, so I have no worries about retirement.
My question is: What do you do if you believe the C&P doctor put incorrect/false information on your DBQs during an exam and you're still in the IDES process? From what I've gathered on this site, I can only ask for a VARR if the condition was a referred. I list details below, but neither of these conditions were referred.
An add on to that would be I have several conditions that I did not claim at the start of the IDES process. Instead of trying to appeal my original findings, would it be best to simply make additional claims that I forgot about and see how that plays out first?
Details on C&P exam:
1. Migraines (not a referred condition) - There are inconsistencies on the form. Question 2a says I take medication as necessary, yet question 2b is marked "no" to say my treatment plan doesn't include taking medication. The major issue I have is that I explained to the C&P doctor that I have migraines 3 to 4 times a month, yet she marked the frequency as "once every month". I feel if she had marked that box as "More frequently than once per month", my rating would have been 50% vs 30% that I received.
2. Hypertension (not a referred condition) - I'm on medication for hypertension and the C&P doctor only took my blood pressure once and noted it as 140/100. From there, we moved on to other topics. However, the DBQ shows two additional readings (143/98 and 133/88) that lowered the final average blood pressure reading down to 138/95. These other readings simply did not occur during the exam and were falsified. It seems suspicious that the diastolic threshold for 10% is at 100.
Thank you for any input.
I'm currently in the IPEB phase and was able to receive my proposed ratings from the VA. I was referred for 5 conditions for my MEB and claimed 20 conditions overall to the VA. Of those 20 conditions, 11 of them were found to be service related. My overall rating was 90% rounded down from 93% (60, 50, 30, 20, 10, 10, 10, 10, 0, 0, 0). For background, I'm over 21 years, so I have no worries about retirement.
My question is: What do you do if you believe the C&P doctor put incorrect/false information on your DBQs during an exam and you're still in the IDES process? From what I've gathered on this site, I can only ask for a VARR if the condition was a referred. I list details below, but neither of these conditions were referred.
An add on to that would be I have several conditions that I did not claim at the start of the IDES process. Instead of trying to appeal my original findings, would it be best to simply make additional claims that I forgot about and see how that plays out first?
Details on C&P exam:
1. Migraines (not a referred condition) - There are inconsistencies on the form. Question 2a says I take medication as necessary, yet question 2b is marked "no" to say my treatment plan doesn't include taking medication. The major issue I have is that I explained to the C&P doctor that I have migraines 3 to 4 times a month, yet she marked the frequency as "once every month". I feel if she had marked that box as "More frequently than once per month", my rating would have been 50% vs 30% that I received.
2. Hypertension (not a referred condition) - I'm on medication for hypertension and the C&P doctor only took my blood pressure once and noted it as 140/100. From there, we moved on to other topics. However, the DBQ shows two additional readings (143/98 and 133/88) that lowered the final average blood pressure reading down to 138/95. These other readings simply did not occur during the exam and were falsified. It seems suspicious that the diastolic threshold for 10% is at 100.
Thank you for any input.
