You are correct I posted 3 days ago regarding the Sleep apnea and it removed. They wont decrease ratings. I have been dealing with tinnitus for many years since my service though I dont have any hearing loss, my life is miserable since I have to deal with this noise every day, It is shame if this proposal goes into effect and tinnitus would be considered as a zero. Tinnitus should stay as it is. "description": "Disability Law Group client", Mar 07, 2019 #5. I remember when my dad was living and I use to take him to his appointments. The shift in our culture is already proving that anyway. I dont think you served. Trained the same but processed it differently. And every VA phone number that a veteran calls starts with If you are having thoughts of suicide It is a crying shame. In cases of secondary service connection, the medical nexus opinion must link a veterans secondary disability to their already service-connected disability. THAT IS,. Just ridiculous. The VA currently rates sleep apnea at 0%, 30%, 50%, or 100% depending on severity. I think more people get upset about OSA when people dont have that bad of symptoms and dont use an oral appliance or CPAP (just did the test for the 50%). Ya Im a combat veteran, served my term,medically discharged not on my own, medically. Thx for your continue support to veterans. of Veterans Affairs , the Dept. I havent claimed anything for PTSD or my CPAP. You can file a claim for TDIU online if you feel confident doing so or contact your local veterans service organization and they can take you through the process. I have to go buy gallons of distilled water constantly. Who knows anymore. ONE DAY, OUR VETERANS WILL GET COMPENSATION UPON HONORABLE DISCHARGE AND THEN SOME. The ENTIRE system needs to be re-thought (and, yes, I am volunteering to help). The VA is following suit. And a stand alone disability Why does it tAke so long to rate their own diagnosis. I must agree that 0% for a CPAP is ridiculous. Yes! All that happened was I became a person being interviewed by students. These ratings range from 100% disability (possible in cases where a chronic respiratory failure is documented) all the way down to 0% (possible in cases where the patient is asymptomatic but with documented sleep disorder breathing). I have obstructive sleep apnea and have been using a CPAP for about two years now. Unfortunately, many veterans experience PTSD stemming from their military service. They have made their decisions already. Everything we have sacrificed and now the VA believes that it is not worth a rating! Its important to remember that these proposed changes on affect those who are yet to be evaluated. In all honesty after reading other complaints about CPAP, I felt it needed a more full explanation. All information is completely confidential.By clicking Get Discounts you agree to our Privacy Policy. Correction: Please consider our health over saving money! If we stopped talking the medicine, using the machines, etc., we would be right back at square one and having to fight through the system to regain or even make our voices heard. Sleep apnea is another common sleep disorder that can form the basis of a successful VA disability claim. The dead wood is found in our politicians. Website developed in accordance with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. How do you establish that sleep apnea is service-connected? VA is not any vets friend and dont care about us. No wonder so many veterans committing suicide out there. Yeah the current 0 to 100 percent ratings need revamping Every condtion should start with 10% regardless. Being an older vet, I cant sleep the whole night with out a toilet break. We all need to fight this and have it turned around. Thank You for the help in preventing Suicide amongst our great Veterans. The Va should really consider what life is like especially when it was aggravated during my military career. Sleep apnea may be defined in any of several categories during a VA review of your health to determine what conditions you may have and which are considered by the VA to be service-connected. Those of us that faced the enemy and have friends that paid the ultimate sacrifice should be the last ones looked at as disabled yes I was badly injured in combat and required many surgeries that see me with limitations to this day but I am strong willed and abled, ready to go and continue mission I am not proud of what has become of the Veteran community nor do I fancy myself apart of it these days for the simple fact of self respect. VA should make it easier to file claims and the benefit should at least stay the same low rates rather than lower the rates. Copyright 2022 Chisholm Chisholm & Kilpatrick LTD. All Rights Reserved. I dont know who made these proposals, but it clearly shows that they dont have the best interest of the vets. Im a year from retirement and this is BULLSHT. Lets get into their background and find out if they have ever served. If you had the cure for this I would Gladly take it and willfully declined compensation, but for now it cost a lot to use, especially electricity to use it and to have to try not to move all night is impossible. My machine was ordered STAT, and the doctor was surprised I was even alive, having lived w sleep apnea for so long undiagnosed! I was also diagnosed with GERD when I take my medicine Im okay, but when I dont I feel like someone dumped battery acid down my throat and have severe pain in my upper chest. In fact, did you know U.S. military veterans are nearly four times (4x) as likely to have or develop sleep apnea when compared to those who didnt serve in the military? Compensation???? The VA may ignore it - they are as resistant to service-connecting obesity as they are to service connecting PTSD caused alcohol and drug problems - but with the inclusion of this evidence, you stand a pretty decent chance of getting the CAVC to reverse erroneous decisions by the BVA, or the BVA to reverse an erroneous VA Ratings Decision. This is an effort to cut compensation and care for disabled vets. Real Ivy League thinking there from people that get bonuses by reducing costs paid to vets . She is unfit to be a VA doctor. That is the VA. Please remember to Post comments on the Federal Register websites as well from the link in article. Dont forget the power of a spouse, partner, roommate or other housemate to give you information that could help with your decision making about this issueif someone tells you youve been snoring or showing signs of other sleep disturbances, take such reports seriously and consider committing those observations to writing for your future claims sake. In process of having present rated reviewed. American Fighter have you no shame. A CPAP machine does NOT cure sleep apnea! The other thing about this sleep Apnea is the rating. I didnt have it now I have to wear this mask every night because I could stop breathing in my sleep! Sleep apnea is a condition that, like all other VA-compensated disabilities, must have an established connection to military service in order to get an award for VA disability compensation. Its funny because theyre trying to revamp the adjustment disorder rating. I was going to add a comment but I can see that many of us have the same opinion and do not want to repeat the same thing. I have had a CPAP for years and still dont have or receive benefits for sleep apnea, wonder why that is. Just because there is something that may make the matter a little better doesnt mean compensation isnt deserved. When the proposed changes are finalized, Veterans who currently receive compensation for a service-connected condition can apply for increased compensation. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/02/15/2022-02049/schedule-for-rating-disabilities-ear-nose-throat-and-audiology-disabilities-special-provisions. Take care of your veterans! Westphal is using Trina to bait me again. You lost the use of being able to have a normal sleep pattern without the use of a machine on your face. Sleep Apnea Increases Risk For Type 2 Diabetes. The 2022 Veterans Day 11/11 Giveaway starts 11/1/2022 (12:00a.m., Central Time) and ends 11/11/2022 (11:59p.m., Central Time). "author": { The VA system is the worse includes the 3rd party money maker evaluators.God bless America Veterans. Many of you will never know what evil was heading the VBA in that time period and what the last USBs fiscal plans were. Of course I left. Try for a few months first and then reconsider your decision. Big Brother is watching. Because of lack of payment by the VA for said services. It simply a matter of not wanting to pay out for this condition anymore. I dont know how anyone could consider the CPAP/APAP to be the cure, and if I have been told correctly, sleep apnea cant be cured. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition that can occur in people who have experienced or witnessed a distressing, shocking, or otherwise, traumatic event. For the VA to suggest that, implies that they are abdicating their responsibility to compensate and very likely treat, the people who have given parts of themselves in Service to this Nation. In other words, is it retroactive? CPAP is medication which helps, whats next VA going to take prosthesis away from veterans and give them a 0% rating for those who lost there limbs. Especially during the last couple of years with the pandemic crisis most treatment is being given by teleconference and virtual. currently, they only offer the big one. The VA claims Care. There are multiple symptoms, but remember not all symptoms are automatically an indication of a medical problem, but they are worth paying attention to for future reference if you have some of the more benign types. On Feb. 15, the Veterans Benefits Administration will publish proposed rules in the Federal Register regarding changes to the regulations for the two body systems: respiratory system; ear, nose and throat conditions, and auditory disorders; and mental disorders. Imagine dating again guys, you have a nice night with the girl and then you drag out you CPAP machine and start setting it up, yah, she will think she found a winner. This is absurd! The reason is money and nothing else. Some could be and are likely not honest, but some are forthright, and only share with because we were true brothers of FUBAR in CombatAs for those who set limits to help any Natural Bron US citizen or not, I will be more than happy to stand before you, or gladly meet you in the back for some wall to wall counseling later. Here the truth call congress and complain this is like when they took dbqs away last year and congress reinstated them remember Heres some facts pay attention . Adding more vets with even greater disabilities after several failed wars is just a dog and pony show of false hope. Absolutely insane. However, navigating the requirements of the claims and appeals process is challenging at best. the only female at my duty station and was accosted sexually. They are just trying to save money. Sleep Apnea Secondary to PTSD VA Disability Rating. Here is an excerpt related to sleep apnea: VA also proposes to modernize the rating criteria for DC 6847, "Sleep Apnea Syndromes (Obstructive, Central, Mixed)" and retitle that DC as "Sleep Apnea Syndromes (Obstructive, Central, or Mixed)". The 2000Hz, 3000Hz, and 4000Hz range all dropped faster in the 20+ years of service then the next 18-years after retirement. I have tried the humidity on auto and on 8, the highest number, but I still wake up in the middle of the night because my throat and sinuses are completely dry and of course that gives me a sinus headache. The members of Westphals consensus, Westphals descriptive term for her minions at Clearlake Clinic, will be ready to bait me in the most severe manners of abuse. Heres a quick litmus test: If you snore during sleep, are tired during the day (maybe you take frequent naps), and stop/start breathing while sleeping (gasping for air), chances are you might have Sleep Apnea. We Veterans are actually still in the war. I have been trying to get diagnosed and get treatment on Sleep Apnea that nearly broke my marriage and separate me and my spouse from sleeping in the same room since I returned from Iraq in 2006. The red tape that veterans jump through to get benefits is just as unsurd the clais.process responce.times all need to be quicker. There was no PTSD. Departments of Defense or Veterans Affairs. I believe you are incorrect. Truly shameful, that the VA would propose this. This is an absurd ruling for those of us that will need a CPAP machine for the rest of our lives. I agree some abuse the system but you cant put everyone In the same circle. Inflation in all things food, gas, automobiles, housing, the Fed doesnt even consider these things in the CPI. The key in getting a VA disability rating for sleep apnea involves establishing military service caused the problem. Please leave our veterans alone. The military and VA say they want to make sure veterans are taken care of once we are our of the military but they really dont care becasue our time has past and these rule changes show this in full affect. 4) What are Sleep Apnea VA Ratings for 2021? If you still NEED the machine then the sleep apnea is STILL problematic. Service connection on a secondary basis requires a showing of causation. If you have more than one service-connected disability, the VA gives you a combined rating. I think it would make more sense to make the rating based on a combination of things severity of symptoms at baseline (no treatment), severity of diagnosis (ie severe OSA gets weighted a little more than mild), and compliance data. If I need medication for anxiety, depression, or PTSD does that also mean its a zero percent? I have a CPAP and I have use it daily. This wont affect you Jamey. 0% for sleep apnea requiring CPAP?!? Once again the VA has proved that they not only dont care about veterans who have sacrificed years of their lives and youth in service of their country, but are actively opposed to compensating them for the loss of their quality of life due to their sacrifices. If you have a service connected sleep apnea disability, then a CPAP would usually entitle you to a 50% rating. They include: These ratings range from 100% disability (possible in cases where a chronic respiratory failure is documented) all the way down to 0% (possible in cases where the patient is asymptomatic but with documented sleep disorder breathing). Well they dont think the Regional worker find was to get close to the vet. If theyre going to come for disability benefits currently being paid to people with ailments they claim get better, I expect to be allowed to be re-evaluated for the ruptured disc in my back that was determined to be service related, but got me 0% because I didnt have a history of chronic pain, i.e. Time for less complaining and more thankfulness! I would suggest thankfulness or constantly complaining . Then you will be ostracized from simple human decency in the way the employees will treat you. The VA rates sleep apnea at a 50% rating if you need a breathing device to assist with your sleeping habits. years, nevermind you guys just want us veterans to die off anyway right? "reviewBody": "Couldn't have hoped for a better attorney to handle my disability case. This is bad for Veterans it is hard enough to get service connected for these issues and now it will be even harder. Things better on the world stage? 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