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Slytheslayer said:
Personally I requested a female doctor, that just happened to work in my favor. Just because it happens the male doctor is absolutely terrible but I didn't know that ahead of time. Anyway, I recommend you go get a copy of your medical records from your clinic. They will email them to you, or you can look through Genesis but they may not have everything.

Next if you have your records or not, look up C&P exam DBQ's they will be on the VA website somewhere. The most important exam is the general medical one. Behavior health one is important too. For the phone call prior to the gen med exam a nurse will call to go over all your claims for the gen med doctor. Have your medical records and DBQ's up on a computer so you can answer the questions they ask. They will want to know when a specific injury happened like what year, where were you, what did you do about it like doctor physical therapy or something else. Lastly the most important part is how does that injury affect you today.

I can't stress this enough, the phone call and gen med exam are the worst all of your injuries have ever been. Think of any injury and how it felt on its worst day, now all of them are like that for the phone call and the gen med exam.

Now don't lie about shit, they can clearly see your medical récords and can tell if you say my elbows don't bend and I have sharp pains.. The doctor says we'll I don't see anything in your records ever about this.. Something like that.

Little tip as well, to make sure I was real sore and felt real shitty, I slept on the floor two night in a row prior to my exam...lol

If you got any more questions just shoot me a dm or something.
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Alright sounds like I have some work to do. Appreciate this information!
 
C&P exams scheduled for next week dates as follows:

July 22 0900
July 22 1400
July 23 0900 Telehealth
July 27 at home sleep study (To verify my previous numbers even though I already have a CPAP machine and my health records show sever sleep apnea?)
July 29 1245
One is a TBD for and not scheduled

Thus far have been lucky and not had an appointment more than 25 miles away.
Final note on this matter was I did not select my dates, I did not have an option to choose my Provider, I did not choose telehealth appointments and called my PEBLO however to my demise she was not helpful and extremely rude about this, so I just accepted the appointments as is. At this point I prefer not to be held up and move forward.
 
Just a tip, to change any appointments it's through the contracting company. You can call and tell them you prefer a female/male provider which ever you prefer. If a date doesn't work for you or you don't want tele health just ask if there's something in person. They are just scheduling first available for you but that doesn't mean others aren't available. Also look on whatever website you have for your appointments and look at your current doctors and Google any reviews they have to see what you're getting into from previous people's experience.
 
Slytheslayer said:
Just a tip, to change any appointments it's through the contracting company. You can call and tell them you prefer a female/male provider which ever you prefer. If a date doesn't work for you or you don't want tele health just ask if there's something in person. They are just scheduling first available for you but that doesn't mean others aren't available. Also look on whatever website you have for your appointments and look at your current doctors and Google any reviews they have to see what you're getting into from previous people's experience.
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My wife was able to do this and successfully delayed the process by 5 months which allowed her to get her 20 year letter which was a backup plan if she didn't qualify for enough CRSC to make her whole. She said she only felt comfortable with female docs. They had a very hard time finding a female dentist and optometrist within 50 miles of her location. They weren't referred conditions so she decided to drop them via MSC once the delay tactic worked. She could have also said she now felt comfortable with seeing a male doctor if she wanted to continue on with the claim within IDES. Those claims probably would have resulted with a 0% rated service connection and she was already at 100% VA so she decided to drop it and later on within 1 year of getting out she could file a claim for them if she changed her mind with no adverse consequences:)
 
Crazy how you have to constantly fight for yourself because to them it's just a machine. They don't care what you deserve or how the outcome ends up.
 
Yeah, Fighting for yourself and not just your battle buddy has caused me more stress than I believe this should have been haha. But at least its finally moving and I refuse to do anything to jeopardize the timeline unless it involves my percentage since it is not my fault the dang chute collapsed prior to landing lol

Appreciate all the help and insight, started looking into the DBQs as told, and lastly seeked out help from the care collation here on base.
 
That's good, and atleast for your narsum consult with the meb lawyer, mine was pretty much spot on what I would receive from both PEB and VA. Let us know how the exams go.
 
General was canceled on me 1 hour prior to arriving. Not a great start to these appointments lol
 
Finally believe all C&P exams complete. All finished last week, majority of them were completed last month. Now time to wait.

Will update as I get news!
 
Hopefully within the next two or three weeks you will get a call. In the meantime you can go on the VA website and file a claim for a freedom of information act to request your C&P exams to try and get a look at them prior to your narsum.
 
Okay! going on week four with hearing nothing. How long has this part of the process taken normally?

I found my dream job and was told they can bring me in, just need to be out of the military haha.
 
Personally, I wouldn't put the cart before the horse by trying to find another job - you're still in the MEB phase of process. Although probably unlikely, you could still be found fit for duty and return back to work with an ALC. The more probable situation is that you will be found unfit, but it may take a long time for you to get your PEB results... or it may not. Who knows. And then you would still have to wait for your orders to be generated.

But to answer your question, after I completed my final exam it took about 3 weeks for all my DBQs to be uploaded by all the examiners and sent to the VA. Of course this is all dependent on the examiners and how long they take to submit your DBQs.
 
d001 said:
Personally, I wouldn't put the cart before the horse by trying to find another job - you're still in the MEB phase of process. Although probably unlikely, you could still be found fit for duty and return back to work with an ALC. The more probable situation is that you will be found unfit, but it may take a long time for you to get your PEB results... or it may not. Who knows. And then you would still have to wait for your orders to be generated.

But to answer your question, after I completed my final exam it took about 3 weeks for all my DBQs to be uploaded by all the examiners and sent to the VA. Of course this is all dependent on the examiners and how long they take to submit your DBQs.
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once they were sent how long before you heard anything back and from whom?
 
After I completed my final C&P exam, it took about 2 months for me to be found unfit by Air Force Personnel Center and get my DOD/VA ratings. Got my retirement orders a month after that.
 
Found unfit, signed NARSUM. What is the timeline looking like for anyone or everyone else at this point? I feel like mine is taking the long way around was told I just now need to wait for ratings, and no extra guidance or anything is being put out. Hurry up and wait is the name of the game I guess just seems like I’m doing more waiting than what should be done sometimes haha

Anyways yall that’s my update finally signed and now again waiting!
 
9/29/2025 Va ratings and DOD ratings came back and signed, V code enabled, Now documents to be signed and transition stage started.
 
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