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I have been diagnosed with chronic radiculopathy in my left leg in the left side. When I was submitting my documentation to the PEBLO she told me that I should check if I had radiculitis. I went to the physiatrist to verify if I had the condition and he told me that radiculitis and radiculopathy...

pittpan2005 thanks!!! Great info.

30% is the magic number.

I wouldn’t dare to answer that because I don’t know that answer. I do know that I need that 30%, otherwise………. It’s going to get bad. My wife is pregnant.

Let me try to explain it to you within the best of my knowledge. I could be wrong, but this is the rule. If you get 20% or less with the ARMY you get severance pay and that’s it. If you get 30% or more you get health care. Actually you and your family get health care. In my case, me, my wife and...

Oh no, that’s not the case. I am satisfied by the 90% of the VA. I’m worried about the 20% of the army. I just want to get that 30%. I didn’t had somebody to tell me about everything having to me documented so it was my mistake indeed that I called my PL and stood home rather than going to sick...

Hi Mathew, thanks for the reply. The migraine is not part of the va rating. It is part of the army rating. The army only gave me 20% for my back and 0% for the migraine. This is why I’m trying to raise that, because I was offered severance pay not military retirement. That’s the reason I want...

I was told that if I could get a statement from my PCM stating that I’ve been having for the last couple months 3 to 4 migraines episode monthlhy, it could be used for rating purposes as support evidence. Is this accurate?

I got the narsum about two weeks ago and noticed that I got 20% in the army and 90% with VA. Of course I will appeal but here is the problem. I suffer from migraine and I didn’t used to go to sick call, I used to just call my platoon sgt and stood home. I didnt knew this was going to explode on...

Hopefully somebody will be able to provide some guidance. Good luck brother.

What about Migraines? I got 0% for Migraine because I didn’t had the migraine episodes documented when my medical record was being used for rating purposes. From the moment I was told that the episodes had to be documented I started going to sick call. I have around 8 days of migraine best rest...

Somebody hijacked my thread so I’m posting this again, finally got the narsum and my PEBLO told me that some of the conditions were not properly rated. Here is my rating proposal. 20% Intervertebral disc syndrome 20% Lumbar Radiculopathy 10% Major Depressive disorder 0% Migraine 50% Sleep Apnea...

Roger that, I already talked to him and he was cool about writing a buddy statement stating how the migraine episodes affected me in my old unit before I was moved to the WTU. Hopefully other people will provide assistance with the other conditions. Thanks Sgt!! Keep the good work.

Sgt, thanks for the reply. As you mention, I didn’t went to sick call when I had this episodes. To be honest when it happens I can barely open my eyes. But anyways, since I was told that the determination was based on incapacitating episodes and not just the medical documentation I started going...

Finally got the narsum and my PEBLO told me that some of the conditions were not properly rated. Here is my rating proposal: 20% Intervertebral disc syndrome 20% Lumbar Radiculopathy 10% Major Depressive disorder 0% Migraine 50% Sleep Apnea 30% Chronic right Maxillary sinusitis 10% Left Knee...