What bothers me is that (fundamentally) a CPAP does not cure Sleep Apnea - if it did then the change makes sense. It's like saying that giving someone with mobility issues a wheelchair corrects the mobility issue - Sleep with a CPAP can reduce the number of apnea events but it doesn't correct anything, it just mitigates the impact.
What generally isn’t mentioned about sleep apnea and the CPAP is this. That machine it life for life, it goes everywhere with you. Vacations, family trips, business trips, ect. Not to mention the fact that going to bed every night looking like a Star Wars villain does serious damage to your intimate relationships.
Damn... It hit when clay said you dont wanna be 26 and not obese with sleep apnea. Im underweight and was diagnosed with sleep apnea at 23. I got it service connected at 26. 😬
My husband submitted his claim in July. Took them 5 months to schedule his sleep study. The claim has yet to move out of evidence gathering. He even submitted the sleep study he had in May, along with a nexus letter. They made him do another sleep study mid-December, and still no word.
Yep, there are tens of thousands of new claims since the Pact Act. I am in the same boat as your SO, appealing several denied claims and waiting for progress.
I’ve been dealing with back, anxiety, and other service related issues for years. Was raised not to exhibit any weakness and being a LEO afterwards just added to it. As I get older I can’t manage the anxiety like I used to, back hurts and aches. Can’t even put on my socks half the time. Sure as hell couldn’t even shovel snow the other day. I could, but I’d be walking around hunchback for days. Can I work? Yeah, but it affects my performance for sure, which impacts my ratings, etc. Still power through and make the most of it, because I refuse to fail. But…it has a dramatic effect on my life in many other ways. Getting the rating is a deserved entitlement, but it’s a curse as well.
There’s a new challenge the VA is going to face. There was a clip where the so call “claim sharks” were complaining to there government rep. Of the unfairness of past claims receive benefits and the present same claims get denied. “What’s good for one is good for all” greed is going to doom a lot of vets I hope not
Me 10% tinnitus 0% HEARING LOSS 50% PTSD 10% nerve damage right index finger total 60% all service related listed I submitted knees & back that was denied even though it was in my medical military record. Do I need to go to my own doctor and get a letter?
@@MikeJones-oc7ch Very slim chance of that. If you file for something unrelated to to sleep apnea. There would be no reason to open that claim to be reevaluated.
@MikeJones-oc7ch it's so crazy to me. Hey we see that your wheel chair is working so we are gonna lower your rating. Hey we see that your hearing aids allow you to hear better. We're gonna lower your rating. Hey we see that the blood pressure medication is working so we're gonna go ahead and lower your rating. I can give countless examples. This is nuts
I understand that if a vet dies of something they have a rating for that their spouse may be entitled to some compensation. My question is that if you reach 100% would it be wise to file for other conditions you may have so that if you die of the new condition your spouse would get compensated. If you are at 100% and file for diabetes can they go ahead and rerate your sleep apnea and then reduce it. And does it make a difference if you are over 55 years of age and are P&T? I want to file for a new condition but worry about them changing something else even if its not related. At least from my point of view. Any thoughts?
Agree with you. I’m 100% P&T and 58 yrs old and i know i have conditions i could connect with service time. But everything i’ve heard and read tells me that it a could be a bad idea because of the possibility of lowering my rating even though everything i was service connected with was documented. I feel that they’ll do anything they can to lower anyone if they’re able to get away with it. It’s terrible to know i can die of something i have been diagnosed with and afraid to claim it.
I'm 10% for tinnitus and service connected at zero for hearing loss. Is it possible to have the hearing loss upgraded, or is it a lost cause? I have a letter of intent to file on record until the end of April. But I haven't started the process. I wear two hearing aids and still don't hear as well as my wife and have lots of trouble in some situations.
I was first rated for tinnitus and within that year went and filed for an increase for bilateral hearing loss and was rated 30% i know for me it was cut and dry because of my jobs in both the Navy and the Army after serving 22 yrs. I would go for it since you have the intent to file. Read around i’m pretty sure they won’t drop your tinnitus. There’s a lot of good advice on Reddit as well .
I RECOMMEND YOU GET DAV OR VFW TO HELP WITH THAT. THEY CAN UPLOAD DOCUMENTS AND GUIDE AS HOW TO PROCEED. DAV HELPED ME OVER THE PAST 9 YEARS TO GET 100%, BUT YOU HAVE TO FIGHT AND GO TO ALL C&P EXAMS THE VA PUTS YOU IN FOR OR YOU WILL BE DENIED. FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT.
The thing that really burns me is that they treat your body like a used car. They hire the cheapest body shop to slap on a used quarter panel and they know it will fail and cause other long term damage. But guess what, your car "looks like it used to for now."
Okay, your CPAP works. BUT, you need it!!! What if the CPAP get’s faulty, same as they had a call-back on the machines 2 years ago? Could the Veteran survive? They shouldn’t low rate it if it’s keeping Veterans alive!!!
Telling things the way they are doesnt make you a conspiracy nut Clay . Jason tends to be a little more..philosophical.... i guess would be the word. I had rose colored glass's on at 18 Thought we were going to go fight the good fight..and win. No matter what the cost Got those glass's broke ...real quick . Glad you two are still on the front line , and putting the intel out here that helps us deal with th BS. My eyes are still blue, surprised they havent turned brown....
50% to zero percent is stupid for sleep apnea, they should have went with 30% or even 10% anything but zero, not fare for sure. When I was last on active duty in 2007, you got med board out and not deployable if you had sleep apnea. If that is still the same I don't see how it is zero????
The whole sleep apnea ratings made me angry as a veteran with PTSD and TBI. It took me nearly 25 years of documentation, news articles, video evidence… for me to finally receive 70% IU P&T. Meantime my brother retired from the military and got 80% first time out for sleep apnea. They wanted to test me for sleep apnea but I said no because,”So at some point I’m gonna go to sleep and not wake up? Cool!” They took sooo MANY years for them to acknowledge my decades of meds and therapy! In fact, I got SSDI first time applied which embarrassed the VA big time!
Amen, it took me 20 plus years p and t, wearing my body out trying to function. Now what I am 64 and going to lose my VA monies and be out with no health care?
@@FrameRot I went into the office and did the paperwork. Had my interview with the psych doctor. She saw all the therapy notes, newspaper clippings, and magazine articles on what I had went thru and as we were talking she started crying. I had just turned off my emotions and laid it all out. I’m not a normal case by any means. The VA was betting I wouldn’t live long enough for them to award me 70% IU P&T. No one else that went thru anything close to me has lived.
If your comparing yourself with other veterans situations your wrong. Don’t listen to these videos. These un trained guys in their basements are here to scare you into buying there nexus letters and watch these videos. So tinnitus boy can get paid on top of his percentage.
What we want, Clay, is what we were ALL led to believe. Which is: We sign "the dotted line" on the premise, that we would be "taken care of" when we left. Then, when we get out and served, and fought (hard), got our asses handed to us; we get shit on, or told that you're services were great, however you are useless to the general public now. By the way. We're not going to help you until you beg and become pissed or "crazy". It's a joke.
I don’t know anyone who can afford to stop working at 70% in the first place Tinnitus, I was an aircraft mechanic around twin turbo prop P3 Orion aircraft with APU with a loud turbo exhaust and defining with foam and ear muff protectors on and pain while working around the aircraft
Yeah VA system still have a lot of fixing to do. It’s so frustrating when something while you were on AD found out you had it. You end up being denied for chronic kidney disease even with the evidence. Fast forward your PCM sends you to a Renal Doctor for kidneys who you’ve seen since pretty much since I’ve been out. Tells me it’s normal for my creating to be high especially for African-American males. See you in a year went on for years. So there are 5 stages of chronic kidney disease. So of course being told I’m good for year I’m thinking I’m stage 1. I admit I should have been more looking for myself, but I was never told what stage I was because I didn’t know there were stages. So specialists from other departments and going to ER asked me did I know my kidneys were bad? I’m like huh? My Renal Doctor said I’m good. So long story short, I asked one of the nurses could she go over my records. She tells me I’m stage 3a chronic disease, I’m like what? I called the Renal Doctor and she tells me I thought you knew? You’ve been that since I first saw you 4 years ago. I’m like I told you I didn’t have a permanent PCM that she never told me and left before I could see her again. But even then me and PCM never talked about my kidneys, it was an over the phone thing and she just put referral in. Just Renal Doctor was well how do you think you were referred, I’m like what did you not get it was never told to me. I’ve seen you for 4 years and you haven’t mentioned anything about stages. Wow. So I’m stage before possibly needing dialysis or transplant. Didn’t feel the need to bring that to my attention. She knew she f…d up thinking I had a PCM. We are just another number like we were in military. Sad.
We answer some comments. This is Clay answering this one. I have upwards of 4,000 comments the last 28 days on my channel and Jason’s channel is much bigger than mine. This channel gets about 1,000 comments every 28 days. It’s a full time job just answering comments. I’m sorry we didn’t get to everyone’s comment.
Let's face it. Regardless to what precent a veteran rightfully earned and is entitled to receive. The VA will always work on ways to screw over the veteran and give themselves a pay raise.Veterans receiving disability for military related issues plays a large part of keeping a roof over them and their family heads. The income shouldn't by any means be subject to decrease,but rightfully granted s increase.
What’s next? Taking away disability for amputees because prosthetics restores the use of a limb? What if sleep apnea was their only disability and the vet loses his/her free VA healthcare that was supplying the machine, masks, and filters? And are vets really “well enough” if they have to live on psychiatric drugs for the rest of their life. Again, if they lose their disability rating are they stuck paying for these meds and care?
It's not going to mess with anyone currently rated until they either request increase or aren't 100% and hit reevaluation. They'll still be evaluated under the current, but you can bet 5 to 10 years down the line the raters will either be all in one way or another.
I like y’all channel but yall are 100% p and t these videos yall are doing is work . Yall look fine yall make great money 💰 on UA-cam so why are yall still 100% P and T seen like yahoo get through life fine . Since yall think it fair to take everybody else benefit
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What bothers me is that (fundamentally) a CPAP does not cure Sleep Apnea - if it did then the change makes sense. It's like saying that giving someone with mobility issues a wheelchair corrects the mobility issue - Sleep with a CPAP can reduce the number of apnea events but it doesn't correct anything, it just mitigates the impact.
What generally isn’t mentioned about sleep apnea and the CPAP is this. That machine it life for life, it goes everywhere with you. Vacations, family trips, business trips, ect. Not to mention the fact that going to bed every night looking like a Star Wars villain does serious damage to your intimate relationships.
Damn... It hit when clay said you dont wanna be 26 and not obese with sleep apnea. Im underweight and was diagnosed with sleep apnea at 23. I got it service connected at 26. 😬
My husband submitted his claim in July. Took them 5 months to schedule his sleep study. The claim has yet to move out of evidence gathering. He even submitted the sleep study he had in May, along with a nexus letter. They made him do another sleep study mid-December, and still no word.
Yep, there are tens of thousands of new claims since the Pact Act. I am in the same boat as your SO, appealing several denied claims and waiting for progress.
You guys are right on as usual. ❤
I have a cpap machine and I still have fatigue and hypersomulence.
I have insomnia as well. Tired every day.
I’ve been dealing with back, anxiety, and other service related issues for years. Was raised not to exhibit any weakness and being a LEO afterwards just added to it. As I get older I can’t manage the anxiety like I used to, back hurts and aches. Can’t even put on my socks half the time. Sure as hell couldn’t even shovel snow the other day. I could, but I’d be walking around hunchback for days. Can I work? Yeah, but it affects my performance for sure, which impacts my ratings, etc. Still power through and make the most of it, because I refuse to fail. But…it has a dramatic effect on my life in many other ways. Getting the rating is a deserved entitlement, but it’s a curse as well.
There’s a new challenge the VA is going to face. There was a clip where the so call “claim sharks” were complaining to there government rep. Of the unfairness of past claims receive benefits and the present same claims get denied. “What’s good for one is good for all” greed is going to doom a lot of vets
I hope not
Me 10% tinnitus 0% HEARING LOSS 50% PTSD 10% nerve damage right index finger total 60% all service related listed I submitted knees & back that was denied even though it was in my medical military record. Do I need to go to my own doctor and get a letter?
Keep up the good work guys!
So does this mean that if you already have a rating for sleep apnea they are going to take it away once the change goes into effect?
@@MarcusAurelius12 No, if are rated. You're good. They will not change the rating you currently have.
@scrapguy6816 gotcha I figured. Thank you for responding
It probably won't change unless you file for an increase and they reopen your file and they see the c-pap is working.
@@MikeJones-oc7ch Very slim chance of that. If you file for something unrelated to to sleep apnea. There would be no reason to open that claim to be reevaluated.
@MikeJones-oc7ch it's so crazy to me. Hey we see that your wheel chair is working so we are gonna lower your rating. Hey we see that your hearing aids allow you to hear better. We're gonna lower your rating. Hey we see that the blood pressure medication is working so we're gonna go ahead and lower your rating. I can give countless examples. This is nuts
I understand that if a vet dies of something they have a rating for that their spouse may be entitled to some compensation. My question is that if you reach 100% would it be wise to file for other conditions you may have so that if you die of the new condition your spouse would get compensated. If you are at 100% and file for diabetes can they go ahead and rerate your sleep apnea and then reduce it. And does it make a difference if you are over 55 years of age and are P&T? I want to file for a new condition but worry about them changing something else even if its not related. At least from my point of view. Any thoughts?
Agree with you. I’m 100% P&T and 58 yrs old and i know i have conditions i could connect with service time. But everything i’ve heard and read tells me that it a could be a bad idea because of the possibility of lowering my rating even though everything i was service connected with was documented. I feel that they’ll do anything they can to lower anyone if they’re able to get away with it. It’s terrible to know i can die of something i have been diagnosed with and afraid to claim it.
At 100 P/T, anytime you file a new claim after is the only time you run the risk of losing your 100% p/t
I'm 10% for tinnitus and service connected at zero for hearing loss. Is it possible to have the hearing loss upgraded, or is it a lost cause? I have a letter of intent to file on record until the end of April. But I haven't started the process. I wear two hearing aids and still don't hear as well as my wife and have lots of trouble in some situations.
I was first rated for tinnitus and within that year went and filed for an increase for bilateral hearing loss and was rated 30% i know for me it was cut and dry because of my jobs in both the Navy and the Army after serving 22 yrs. I would go for it since you have the intent to file. Read around i’m pretty sure they won’t drop your tinnitus. There’s a lot of good advice on Reddit as well .
I RECOMMEND YOU GET DAV OR VFW TO HELP WITH THAT. THEY CAN UPLOAD DOCUMENTS AND GUIDE AS HOW TO PROCEED. DAV HELPED ME OVER THE PAST 9 YEARS TO GET 100%, BUT YOU HAVE TO FIGHT AND GO TO ALL C&P EXAMS THE VA PUTS YOU IN FOR OR YOU WILL BE DENIED. FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT.
The criteria for BLHL are pretty measurable and your decision letter should tell you what you need to go from 0 to 10%]
@bryanlloyd9916 Thank you. ABRAHAMS TANKER here, so lots of noise exposure.
Is that the only thing you’re rated for? From my understanding, hearing loss ratings are really hard to win so it’s better to make secondary claims
It's crazy, it's like loosing a leg, the VA prescribe you a wheelchair and a prosthetic and rate you at 0% because you can move around.
The thing that really burns me is that they treat your body like a used car. They hire the cheapest body shop to slap on a used quarter panel and they know it will fail and cause other long term damage. But guess what, your car "looks like it used to for now."
Okay, your CPAP works. BUT, you need it!!! What if the CPAP get’s faulty, same as they had a call-back on the machines 2 years ago? Could the Veteran survive? They shouldn’t low rate it if it’s keeping Veterans alive!!!
Telling things the way they are doesnt make you a conspiracy nut Clay . Jason tends to be a little more..philosophical.... i guess would be the word. I had rose colored glass's on at 18 Thought we were going to go fight the good fight..and win. No matter what the cost Got those glass's broke ...real quick . Glad you two are still on the front line , and putting the intel out here that helps us deal with th BS. My eyes are still blue, surprised they havent turned brown....
I think it's crazy that you cannot get any percentage for sleep apnea
50% to zero percent is stupid for sleep apnea, they should have went with 30% or even 10% anything but zero, not fare for sure. When I was last on active duty in 2007, you got med board out and not deployable if you had sleep apnea. If that is still the same I don't see how it is zero????
The whole sleep apnea ratings made me angry as a veteran with PTSD and TBI. It took me nearly 25 years of documentation, news articles, video evidence… for me to finally receive 70% IU P&T. Meantime my brother retired from the military and got 80% first time out for sleep apnea. They wanted to test me for sleep apnea but I said no because,”So at some point I’m gonna go to sleep and not wake up? Cool!” They took sooo MANY years for them to acknowledge my decades of meds and therapy! In fact, I got SSDI first time applied which embarrassed the VA big time!
Amen, it took me 20 plus years p and t, wearing my body out trying to function. Now what I am 64 and going to lose my VA monies and be out with no health care?
How he get 80% on Sleep Apnea? I thought it capped at 50%
How did you get SSDI first time?
@@FrameRot I went into the office and did the paperwork. Had my interview with the psych doctor. She saw all the therapy notes, newspaper clippings, and magazine articles on what I had went thru and as we were talking she started crying. I had just turned off my emotions and laid it all out. I’m not a normal case by any means. The VA was betting I wouldn’t live long enough for them to award me 70% IU P&T. No one else that went thru anything close to me has lived.
If your comparing yourself with other veterans situations your wrong. Don’t listen to these videos. These un trained guys in their basements are here to scare you into buying there nexus letters and watch these videos. So tinnitus boy can get paid on top of his percentage.
What we want, Clay, is what we were ALL led to believe. Which is: We sign "the dotted line" on the premise, that we would be "taken care of" when we left. Then, when we get out and served, and fought (hard), got our asses handed to us; we get shit on, or told that you're services were great, however you are useless to the general public now. By the way. We're not going to help you until you beg and become pissed or "crazy". It's a joke.
I don’t know anyone who can afford to stop working at 70% in the first place
Tinnitus, I was an aircraft mechanic around twin turbo prop P3 Orion aircraft with APU with a loud turbo exhaust and defining with foam and ear muff protectors on and pain while working around the aircraft
Gunners Mate here, have it in both ears. I would like to see a DR go into a quiet room with the same sounds I hear 24/7 and not claw their ears out.
It really is annoying as hell. I try to ignore it or have something louder in the room to mask it.
So.... Get as many ratings as you qualify for now And try to get P&T ASAP?
I'm still waiting it's been 10 months and I'm still in phase 3
Is 50% at 100 P&T fine?
Explained: ua-cam.com/video/WDybztJhRMQ/v-deo.htmlsi=ohvMUht6xysEMSPN
I'm 100% p&t for
Seizure disorder from going down in a h 53 in 1979 operations for lightning in Mindanao Philippineswill they take mine away
This is an insult. It seems like Washington against Vets!
Yeah VA system still have a lot of fixing to do. It’s so frustrating when something while you were on AD found out you had it. You end up being denied for chronic kidney disease even with the evidence. Fast forward your PCM sends you to a Renal Doctor for kidneys who you’ve seen since pretty much since I’ve been out. Tells me it’s normal for my creating to be high especially for African-American males. See you in a year went on for years. So there are 5 stages of chronic kidney disease. So of course being told I’m good for year I’m thinking I’m stage 1. I admit I should have been more looking for myself, but I was never told what stage I was because I didn’t know there were stages. So specialists from other departments and going to ER asked me did I know my kidneys were bad? I’m like huh? My Renal Doctor said I’m good. So long story short, I asked one of the nurses could she go over my records. She tells me I’m stage 3a chronic disease, I’m like what? I called the Renal Doctor and she tells me I thought you knew? You’ve been that since I first saw you 4 years ago. I’m like I told you I didn’t have a permanent PCM that she never told me and left before I could see her again. But even then me and PCM never talked about my kidneys, it was an over the phone thing and she just put referral in. Just Renal Doctor was well how do you think you were referred, I’m like what did you not get it was never told to me. I’ve seen you for 4 years and you haven’t mentioned anything about stages. Wow. So I’m stage before possibly needing dialysis or transplant. Didn’t feel the need to bring that to my attention. She knew she f…d up thinking I had a PCM. We are just another number like we were in military. Sad.
I've never seen either of them answer any questions when asked in comments.
We answer some comments. This is Clay answering this one. I have upwards of 4,000 comments the last 28 days on my channel and Jason’s channel is much bigger than mine. This channel gets about 1,000 comments every 28 days. It’s a full time job just answering comments. I’m sorry we didn’t get to everyone’s comment.
@VeteransDaily My fault I'm sorry first time I have ever read a response... I dropped the ball.
Have you feel like you’re suffocating? That’s what happens on a sleep apnea episode. I don’t wish this feeling to anyone.
Let's face it. Regardless to what precent a veteran rightfully earned and is entitled to receive. The VA will always work on ways to screw over the veteran and give themselves a pay raise.Veterans receiving disability for military related issues plays a large part of keeping a roof over them and their family heads. The income shouldn't by any means be subject to decrease,but rightfully granted s increase.
"not a doctor" "you're gonna die early from sleep apnea" That fear mongering...gotta love it.
Sleep apnea (especially obstructive) will kill you if untreated and I don’t have to be a doctor to make that statement.
Having sleep apnea lowers your life expectancy.
What’s next? Taking away disability for amputees because prosthetics restores the use of a limb? What if sleep apnea was their only disability and the vet loses his/her free VA healthcare that was supplying the machine, masks, and filters? And are vets really “well enough” if they have to live on psychiatric drugs for the rest of their life. Again, if they lose their disability rating are they stuck paying for these meds and care?
It's not going to mess with anyone currently rated until they either request increase or aren't 100% and hit reevaluation. They'll still be evaluated under the current, but you can bet 5 to 10 years down the line the raters will either be all in one way or another.
Now on sleep apnea if you have an intent to file from last year are you grand fathered for the old way
If you're intent to file is 11 months old and you haven't file you should refile
@americanandpinay I'm going to here in a couple weeks I'm just finishing up getting all my documentation.
It's good but bad
1st
I like y’all channel but yall are 100% p and t these videos yall are doing is work . Yall look fine yall make great money 💰 on UA-cam so why are yall still 100% P and T seen like yahoo get through life fine . Since yall think it fair to take everybody else benefit
What’s your excuse?
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Obviously you are not there Doctor! 💥 🎤 drop
@@MadMeave that what I’m say too they not doctors
@@Motrin-Hydrate what are you talking about did you read what I’m asking