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Jlc1234

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Hello, I have been lurking around this forum for 3 weeks now. My current status since 20 May 2025 is Pending Action by a Medical Evaluation Board/Physical Evaluation Board. Have not heard from anyone or seen any changes on IPPSA.

My current conditions are DDD, 2 Compression fractures, one 40 percent loss and other 20 percent, disc bulges (multiple) disc protrusion, disc diffusion, and mild stenosis, tingling down into my left foot with sharp shooting pains in the back of my leg and right leg, and pain radiating into my neck and shoulders all lower back. Nothing was done for my neck pain or upper spine due to my lower back being the "primary scare". Current questions I have is how long does this take to hear something back typically? As well what should i expect with these issues? I will state I'm a combat MOS and these injuries happened during a Jump with a UH60.

Last question, I had a knee surgery April 22nd is this the reason I am stuck in limbo for the last three weeks or is this the typical wait time?
 
Your surgeon, or specialty doctor puts in the mrdp, your pcm initiates the meb. Did you confirm with your pcm that the meb was initiated? What you can do is go on ippsa and check your profile, where it has the pulhes condition 3 look for a second signature in the approval block. That's when it's official. Mine took about 3 weeks to get approved.
 
Anonuser said:
Has your MEB been initiated? Or are your docs just saying they want to recommend MEB
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Provider placed me on a P3 profile, and trying to make sense of all this myself atm. When I logged into IPPSA on my talent profile that's when I saw it was pending action and in my records my provider has in his notes "In my view of his care he is at MRDP for his back pain", "MEB consult placed. L3 profile placed. IAW AR 40-501 and review of his treatment record the patient is at MRDP for his back pain"
 
Jlc1234 said:
Provider placed me on a P3 profile, and trying to make sense of all this myself atm. When I logged into IPPSA on my talent profile that's when I saw it was pending action and in my records my provider has in his notes "In my view of his care he is at MRDP for his back pain", "MEB consult placed. L3 profile placed. IAW AR 40-501 and review of his treatment record the patient is at MRDP for his back pain"
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Sly covered everything I was gonna say lol make sure you contact your PCM for confirmation and check your profile for that pulhes
 
Ok so your probably waiting for the approving MEB doctor to sign your profile, that timeline varies, could be a day or a month. Sorry I meant actually on medpros so you can see your actual profile..to the right it has approving authority, that's the signature you need to actually start. I'll put a picture of mine so you can see. If it ever actually opens...dang it keeps saying photo too large, hopefully it works
 
Slytheslayer said:
Ok so your probably waiting for the approving MEB doctor to sign your profile, that timeline varies, could be a day or a month. Sorry I meant actually on medpros so you can see your actual profile..to the right it has approving authority, that's the signature you need to actually start. I'll put a picture of mine so you can see. If it ever actually opens...dang it keeps saying photo too large, hopefully it works
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Thanks for your help! Lurking on here has me with unrealistic timelines. Curious if the knee surgery will slow them down on determining the approval or not.
 
Depends, all it takes is after the surgery you followed up with your doctor still complaining about pain and also pain management or ortho. All it takes is for one of them to put in the mrdp. My surgeon initially said he wouldn't recommend meb because it usually takes a year to heal from my surgery, but I did two surgeries within 4 months and have been doing all the other stuff in between. He finally agreed and so did pain management. It's definitely a process.
 
Jlc1234 said:
Thanks for your help! Lurking on here has me with unrealistic timelines. Curious if the knee surgery will slow them down on determining the approval or not.
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Also for reference, there's notes in your records you can't see. That's where the mrdp likely is hiding. They will review your mrdp from your surgeon and pcm, and verify your records and concur.
 
Update:

5/20/25 MEB referral
6/11/25 accepted into ides (to note) had to call the office to find out I was approved.

Now the waiting game to be assigned a peblo. Was told if I do not hear anything by next Friday go ahead and call the ides office again.
 
Usually when it's approved it's assigned a peblo pretty quick. You should hear from them this week along with your MSC. I recommend going to your local clinic and getting a copy of all your medical records, because when you get your VA exam appointments the general medical exam will have a 2 hour phone call prior to, to go over all your claims. They will want to know when the injury happened, did you do anything for it like physical therapy, surgery etc..also the limitations you now have because of it and the pain you have from it. Remember it's your worst day for aches and pains on that phone call and the general med exam.
 
Update Finally received that long awaited phone call, legal brief tomorrow 0745
 
met with Peblo, July 09 awaiting contact from MSC
 
Man, they are pretty slow over there. I had contact with peblo, msc and got my VA claim.submitted all in 2 days. Good luck man, you're gonna have to keep on top of them to make sure you're getting the info you need. Find out which method of contact works the best for them, either email or phone and update them with every little thing you do.
 
Slytheslayer said:
Man, they are pretty slow over there. I had contact with peblo, msc and got my VA claim.submitted all in 2 days. Good luck man, you're gonna have to keep on top of them to make sure you're getting the info you need. Find out which method of contact works the best for them, either email or phone and update them with every little thing you do.
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Walked out the door and received call from msc scheduled for monday.
 
Met with MSC 07/14/2025 They added 25 claims so we will see what happens, she seemed to want me to claim any issue other than my listed issues and as well seems to be far more helpful than any other person I have met with during the start of this process.

Expecting C&P exam calls this week but was informed they are backed up and it could be next week, will continue to update every step of the process regardless if anyone is reading because going through the forum this was the information I was looking for haha
 
Nice, that's a good thing. Absolutely claim everything. It's your best shot to get it all in there and get the rating you want the first time. I claimed stuff that I had been seen for maybe one time 20 years ago and at the c&p the doctor wanted more xrays to confirm stuff and wrote up more issues from it. I was very generic in my claims too, that way I didn't limit what they were looking for. Good luck man.
 
Slytheslayer said:
Nice, that's a good thing. Absolutely claim everything. It's your best shot to get it all in there and get the rating you want the first time. I claimed stuff that I had been seen for maybe one time 20 years ago and at the c&p the doctor wanted more xrays to confirm stuff and wrote up more issues from it. I was very generic in my claims too, that way I didn't limit what they were looking for. Good luck man.
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Appreciate the insight, May I ask you how the exams went and what to expect. I dont want to mess up in anyway and be that "tough guy" but dont want them to also think i am making things up lol
 
Personally I requested a female doctor, that just happened to work in my favor. Just because it happens the male doctor is absolutely terrible but I didn't know that ahead of time. Anyway, I recommend you go get a copy of your medical records from your clinic. They will email them to you, or you can look through Genesis but they may not have everything.

Next if you have your records or not, look up C&P exam DBQ's they will be on the VA website somewhere. The most important exam is the general medical one. Behavior health one is important too. For the phone call prior to the gen med exam a nurse will call to go over all your claims for the gen med doctor. Have your medical records and DBQ's up on a computer so you can answer the questions they ask. They will want to know when a specific injury happened like what year, where were you, what did you do about it like doctor physical therapy or something else. Lastly the most important part is how does that injury affect you today.

I can't stress this enough, the phone call and gen med exam are the worst all of your injuries have ever been. Think of any injury and how it felt on its worst day, now all of them are like that for the phone call and the gen med exam.

Now don't lie about shit, they can clearly see your medical récords and can tell if you say my elbows don't bend and I have sharp pains.. The doctor says we'll I don't see anything in your records ever about this.. Something like that.

Little tip as well, to make sure I was real sore and felt real shitty, I slept on the floor two night in a row prior to my exam...lol

If you got any more questions just shoot me a dm or something.
 
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