Recieved a call from the Medical Evaluation Board yesterday, PTSD

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Aurilian

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Hello,

I've been reading around the forum a bit and I have some questions after being referred to IDES this week.

Background Info: I'm an Active Duty Infantryman (Army) with a little more than 4 years TIS

I was diagnosed with PTSD due to an incident that occurred in 2021. The diagnosis came in mid-2022 and I've been receiving treatment since. I ended up having a breakdown and walked out of my last BH appointment; I was immediately referred to IDES as a result by my provider.

I'm fine with this, my symptoms have been getting worse by the day (daily nightmares, flashbacks, social anxiety, insomnia, etc) and I'm pretty set on getting out of the Army at this point.

My only question is, can I mention my other problems outside of my PTSD to get a rating for that as well?

I suffered a TBI (w/ reoccurring migraines and memory issues) during deployment in 2022, left knee is damaged (pain), hip and back damage, etc.

Obviously, these don't coincide with my PTSD and are from completely separate incidents, but all of my issues are documented extensively (TBI protocol, PRP injections in my knee, etc). I just want to avoid fighting with the VA for a separate rating for their ailments after my discharge from AD.

Thanks and any advice would be very much appreciated!
 
Once the process gets going you will eventually meet with a VA rep called an MSC. The MSC will work with you to file a VA claim. That is the point where you and MSC can add other contentions.
 
chaplaincharlie said:
Once the process gets going you will eventually meet with a VA rep called an MSC. The MSC will work with you to file a VA claim. That is the point where you and MSC can add other contentions.
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To clarify what @chaplaincharlie stated... Adding conditions will be for the VA to rate. More than likely the ipeb will state that only your PTSD is unfitting. If you believe that some of these other health conditions don't allow you to do your job then you need to argue throughout the process that they are unfitting too. TBI will be combined with PTSD so that won't help you but for example the knee could be argued to be unfitting if you can show that it causes you limitations that prohibit you from doing your MOS. So for example if you are infantry and you can't kneel or be in certain positions or run at full speed that would be compelling. If you do plan on trying to add more conditions as unfitting I would ensure you are on profile for it. Also, at every appealable step if that condition isn't properly designated you would need to challenge it. For example, at the NARSUM stage the docs are going to talk about all of your health conditions. If the NARSUM only states that PTSD is unfitting but all other conditions meets retention criteria you would want to do a rebuttal and argue why a 2nd condition was unfitting. If you don't challenge things throughout the process it will be much harding getting them changed via a FPEB.
 
The PEB is suppose to rate all unfitting conditions. If the Informal PEB fails to rate all unfitting conditions, then you can appeal to the Formal PEB. Each service publishes a list of unfitting conditions. The guidance for was is unfitting is found on the resource tab of this website.
 
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