I'm thinking this is the right section for this. I recently retired and this VA stuff is confusing because you ask 5 people a question and you get 5 different answers. So I know some of the problem with my overall claim was the VA guy on base had me fill out my 526EZ wrong. For instance, I suffer from migraines and he told me to put headaches. In the box where you put what causes he said put unknown which I should have put brain tumor. The VA denied because I put on my MEPS paperwork I had previously had frequent headaches. Needless to say I resubmitted and changed to migraines.
Anyway, the tumor cause hearing loss in my right ear and what I can hear comes in distorted (like I have a plug in my ear). The VA denied my claim for hearing loss so like my migraines I challenged it. I got my letter back and it said my speech loss was 52% and puretone was 59%. My claim for hearing loss on left ear was denied due to my job. Funny thing was I never asked for hearing loss in my left ear, and the letter never gave the results of the left ear. My question is I understand the VA takes the results of the good ear vs the bad to get a possible rating. Because of this I am trying to get the results of my left ear to see where I truly fall. I was under the impression though that if the hearing loss was due to a disease (tumor) that it was treated differently than say if it was due to normal loss.
The doctor's don't know when I got the tumor, but I believe it was some time in 2006 because that is when I started getting the migraines, having hearing issues, and vertigo. I know there are thousands in the same boat as me and it is very frustrated when I can by lying in bed with my left ear on the pillow and my wife can be literally less than two feet away from me say something and I can't hear what she says. Then to have the VA say that you get nothing for it.
Anyway, the tumor cause hearing loss in my right ear and what I can hear comes in distorted (like I have a plug in my ear). The VA denied my claim for hearing loss so like my migraines I challenged it. I got my letter back and it said my speech loss was 52% and puretone was 59%. My claim for hearing loss on left ear was denied due to my job. Funny thing was I never asked for hearing loss in my left ear, and the letter never gave the results of the left ear. My question is I understand the VA takes the results of the good ear vs the bad to get a possible rating. Because of this I am trying to get the results of my left ear to see where I truly fall. I was under the impression though that if the hearing loss was due to a disease (tumor) that it was treated differently than say if it was due to normal loss.
The doctor's don't know when I got the tumor, but I believe it was some time in 2006 because that is when I started getting the migraines, having hearing issues, and vertigo. I know there are thousands in the same boat as me and it is very frustrated when I can by lying in bed with my left ear on the pillow and my wife can be literally less than two feet away from me say something and I can't hear what she says. Then to have the VA say that you get nothing for it.