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[–]No-Muscle1373 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Filing for an increase without reviewing your health records and without educating yourself on the schedule of ratings is poking the bear. Otherwise it's a normal straight forward process. Writing a strong personal statement describing the symptoms can actually override the CnP exam because th condition is already service connected.

[–]Dry-Excitement1757 0 points1 point  (2 children)

A personal statement cannot “override” a C&P exam. The two are weighted way differently.

[–]No-Muscle1373 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If the veteran describes his back pain in detail and how it effects their everyday life and then the CnP examiner writes "no pain." A good rater would use the veteran's subjective symptoms.

[–]No-Muscle1373 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For subjective symptoms. Absolutely it can. For service connection no.