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JoshnSarah Morris

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My husband is having a heck of a time getting his PTSD approved. He was medically retired in 2011 for Asthma. He had 2 guys he deployed with writing letters on his behalf talking about incidents that happened while deployed. Do you think that will be enough? Also, when he was retired they didn't recognize Asthma, but now that there are all these things out about burn pits could it possibly looked at now as an imstumentaily of war? On his PEB it all says that his Asthma is combat related. Thanks everyone for your input!

Sarah
 
Need a little more information as to what he submitted
 
He submitted
VA decision letter
356 from peb
Letter of explanation from myself
VA evaluation for ptsd
Orders to camp bucca. Arifjan bald
Awards and decorations
 
JoshnSarah Morris said:
My husband is having a heck of a time getting his PTSD approved. He was medically retired in 2011 for Asthma. He had 2 guys he deployed with writing letters on his behalf talking about incidents that happened while deployed. Do you think that will be enough? Also, when he was retired they didn't recognize Asthma, but now that there are all these things out about burn pits could it possibly looked at now as an imstumentaily of war? On his PEB it all says that his Asthma is combat related. Thanks everyone for your input!

Sarah
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I have not seen any successful arguments that have paralleled burn pit related injuries as an instrument of war. I feel it may be a mitigating circumstance, hopefully there is already or possible case precedence on this. Perhaps @Jason Perry may have some insight?
 
It very well may be approved. Whatever the VA had deemed service connected with mine they went with it. Now as far as the burn pit stuff goes brother Fowler is right. I just got a lot of mine started personally and they are only running tests so give it a few years and just maybe they will do something with that. It took 30 working days for a decision. So id call in a week to see if they got it and its up and running.
 
My husband was combat arms also and the last base he was at had air testing done and they had to start wearing respirators. But on his peb paperwork it says burn pits right on it.
 
Them paying out for burn pit exposure is still brand new its not gonna be something they just start cranking out. Very possible that things related to it like asthma or reduced lung capacity could definitely be used though. My paperwork says burnpit exposure too and i just got my first round of testing last week.
 
I applied for crsc for asthma with obstructive sleep apnea and ptsd. Both were denied. Can anyone help me with how to get this appoved? I had 12 years active and over 18 1/2 total when I was MEB'd. I can show that I was taken to Bagram's behavioral health following issues I developed in logar province, but other medical records were done in paper form and were never seen again. I don't understand where they think my ptsd came from if not Afghanistan.
 
Citation Nr: 0102100, Citation Nr: 0918715 and Citation Nr: 1316035 All of these were granted Sleep Apnea secondary to PTSD.
http://www.aasmnet.org/articles.aspx?id=5569 is an American Academy of Sleep Medicine Study of the risk of sleep apnea due to PTSD in young soldiers.
http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2015...at-higher-risk-for-sleep-apnea/7091432130651/ Researchers found that 69 percent of veterans who were evaluated for self-reported PTSD symptoms also were at high risk for sleep apnea
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3501663/ The reference section in this article is very helpful

I was granted Sleep Apnea S/C with buddy letters showing before deployment I snored, but after deployment I began to stop breathing in my sleep. These were observed on drill weekends from LIK.
 
Thats good information. I have service connection, I'm just trying to prove it was combat related.
 
If it secondary to PTSD and PTSD is Combat Related, wouldn't all secondary issues have stemmed from Combat?
 
Medic365 said:
I applied for crsc for asthma with obstructive sleep apnea and ptsd. Both were denied. Can anyone help me with how to get this appoved? I had 12 years active and over 18 1/2 total when I was MEB'd. I can show that I was taken to Bagram's behavioral health following issues I developed in logar province, but other medical records were done in paper form and were never seen again. I don't understand where they think my ptsd came from if not Afghanistan.
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Medic365 said:
Thats good information. I have service connection, I'm just trying to prove it was combat related.
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Indeed, @ctbenja1015 provided good feedback in reference to Sleep Apnea as a secondary condition to PTSD.

Hmm, are you military service-connected by the DoVA for Asthma, sleep apnea and PTSD at this point?

If so, in my opinion, then it may be a good strategy to submit a DoVA disability claim for Sleep Apnea as a secondary condition to PTSD. In addition to the URLs previously provide, I suggest that you review the following URL for any potential assistance also:
In retrospect, the aforementioned article stated that "The doctor's examination is critical to your claim. If the doctor who examines you believes it is at least "as likely as not" that your sleep apnea is related to your PTSD (and they put that in writing), you have a strong claim that is likely to be granted." :D

Moreover, official medical studies have been completed validating a recognized cause of Sleep Apnea symptomatology in former military service members with PTSD who experience severe/chronic sleep impairments. That said, there exist numerous studies that show the correlation between PTSD and Sleep Apnea in military veterans!

As such, in my particular situation, I shall submit a CRSC application upon the completion of my recently submitted final DoVA disability compensation claim for evaluation of additional military active duty medical conditions. To that extent, I would tend to believe that it's potentially easier to obtain CRSC award approval for a combat-related medical impairment which is already approved by the DoVA Rating Agency as a secondary condition of a combat-related medical impairment than trying to directly fight an uphill battle with the designated military branch of service to prove that a military medical impairment is combat-related resulting in a CRSC award approval. Take care! :cool:

Thus, I quite often comment that "possessing well-informed knowledge is truly a powerful equalizer!"

Best Wishes!
 
CRSC is for people who have been injured in combat (hence "combat related") or simulated combat. An airborne operation is an excellent example.

If your lung condition, asthma, was caused by exposure while in theater is Iraq or Afghanistan and you have documentation as such you might have a fighting chance.

As far as the burn pit registry etc good luck. Ive been told by a pulmonologist at the VA to my face, my wife present, and a resident present, that I have constrictive bronchiolitis as a result of exposure to environmental hazards etc, who said she would chart that as such, and it never happened. And the VA and DoD isnt keen to recognize it or pay for it either as it will open a can of worms.

Just like CTE (chronic traumatic encepholopathy) as that is our generations "Agent Orange" along with lung conditions.

Good luck getting sleep apnea connected to PTSD then drawing CRSC for it. Thats quite a reach if you ask me....

As far as the OP having her husband having a hard time getting his PTSD approved I cant imagine why. Theyre handing that diagnosis out like pancakes in order to avoid anything else like concussive syndromes etc as a result of TBI or blast injuries. ALl you have to do is fill out the PTSD tool, talk to a bored Psychologist, and maybe take a MMPI-II.
 
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