Hello Everyone,
I have recently been notified that I will be doing my reevaluation. It has me so stressed out that I had to get back on my anxiety medication. When I went through IDES, I had a really hard time because my disease is not in the VASRD. The initial code I was given was for a disease with a min of 30%. A week later, a new code was assigned (out of nowhere. The IDES people said they have NEVER seen this before) with a min of 10%. I fought and got the original code reassigned. It took a lot of fighting, but someone high in the IDES chain agreed that a mistake had been made. I did this so that I could be guaranteed medical retirement (30% is the magic number). My worry now is that they may change my code again when my stuff goes back to PEB. I just have the most random luck and my anxiety is processing every way this could go wrong. Can they change my code? If they change my code, will this be sent to the VA to get my code changed there as well? I am currently 100% P&T so a code change could really mess me up. How does the PEB determine if my illness is stable for rating purposes and can what they find effect my current VA percentage? I just want this part of my life to be over already.
I have recently been notified that I will be doing my reevaluation. It has me so stressed out that I had to get back on my anxiety medication. When I went through IDES, I had a really hard time because my disease is not in the VASRD. The initial code I was given was for a disease with a min of 30%. A week later, a new code was assigned (out of nowhere. The IDES people said they have NEVER seen this before) with a min of 10%. I fought and got the original code reassigned. It took a lot of fighting, but someone high in the IDES chain agreed that a mistake had been made. I did this so that I could be guaranteed medical retirement (30% is the magic number). My worry now is that they may change my code again when my stuff goes back to PEB. I just have the most random luck and my anxiety is processing every way this could go wrong. Can they change my code? If they change my code, will this be sent to the VA to get my code changed there as well? I am currently 100% P&T so a code change could really mess me up. How does the PEB determine if my illness is stable for rating purposes and can what they find effect my current VA percentage? I just want this part of my life to be over already.