I've had chronic back pain for years, but it's gotten much worse over the last few months. At this point, I'm unable to walk even a half mile at a very slow pace without severe pain and can't stand for more than five minutes. I've been in civilian pain management for the better part of a year.
Here's the complication: For the past 6ish months, I've been on a civilian detail and my pain management doctor has always been a civilian. Thus no one has issued a profile. A couple of weeks ago, now that I'm back in my regular job, I was issued a 90-day profile. That's great, but as I understand it, I won't be evaluated for a permanent profile until I've had a temporary profile for a year. So even though I've been getting treatment for my condition for about a year (well, longer than that, but the pain management didn't start until a year ago) and have been basically incapacitated for months, it looks like the year-long clock just started a couple weeks ago.
So my question -- given that I was in a civilian detail and seeing a civilian physician, is there any way I can get my temporary profile backdated? Or at least get reviewed for permanent disability sooner so as to recognize that I've been incapacitated for much longer than my profile makes it seem? Or am I SOL?
Here's the complication: For the past 6ish months, I've been on a civilian detail and my pain management doctor has always been a civilian. Thus no one has issued a profile. A couple of weeks ago, now that I'm back in my regular job, I was issued a 90-day profile. That's great, but as I understand it, I won't be evaluated for a permanent profile until I've had a temporary profile for a year. So even though I've been getting treatment for my condition for about a year (well, longer than that, but the pain management didn't start until a year ago) and have been basically incapacitated for months, it looks like the year-long clock just started a couple weeks ago.
So my question -- given that I was in a civilian detail and seeing a civilian physician, is there any way I can get my temporary profile backdated? Or at least get reviewed for permanent disability sooner so as to recognize that I've been incapacitated for much longer than my profile makes it seem? Or am I SOL?