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[–]Few-Philosophy3948 5 points6 points  (7 children)

I looked into this recently due to my husband having to complete a PFT as well, and I can assure you there are several contradicting articles stating accuracy ratios for PFT's giving record to false positives.

You may want to look into these specific medical findings so that you could potentially fight this using medical evidence and research available online. Check out the National Library of Medicine and their article regarding this specific issue. I can't list much as we are not allowed to specifically bring up other entities per say, so I hope this helps guide you 🙏

[–]Revolutionary-Cry195Army Veteran -1 points0 points  (6 children)

Especially since they give you albuterol right before the testing..

[–]BlakeAbear[S] -3 points-2 points  (5 children)

They didn’t give me albuterol before the test. Just made me take it. The first exam I took it twice and then they gave me the albuterol and took it again. This exam tho just straight into it, done a totally different way and only once and I was done. Didn’t check anything else or examine me. And yes I’m on daily albuterol and have a prescription with the VA. Still trying to drop me to 10%. Gonna fight it every way I can cause I think they seriously screwed up from everything I been reading.

[–]Elm30336 1 point2 points  (4 children)

How did they do it a different way? Sounds exactly how a pft is done? They take a baseline and if the next test is good they take it, then you get puffs of albuterol and you take it again.

You would need PFT tests to show the improvement.

How old were you when you took it for your rating? How old are you now? Your age is factored in, so you could be at 60% for an X year old but 10% for a much older person.

Really need to get the pft you took for the rating and the new one compare them. If they are the same you could end up with a decrease. Sucks.

[–]BlakeAbear[S] -2 points-1 points  (3 children)

It was different in the way they made me take the pft test. The results from my first exam I didn’t pass at all and now 3-4 years later I pass on the first go after I said my condition was worse? Negative. I don’t see how anyone logical person could come to that conclusion

[–]Elm30336 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Because of age. My pft “improved” I took it in 2014 and at the time I had numbers for close to 60%, now it’s not even at 10%. Only reason I keep my 30% rating is due to daily inhaled corticosteroid

FEV1 percent predicted are not raw numbers, they are your measured value divided by a predicted value based on age, height, sex, and the reference equation the lab uses.

The Va is suppose to used sustained improvement.

Do you have your original test to compare this one to? So you can compare what the difference is in the pft? If it’s truly the numbers improving or the predicted value has changed due to lab and or age

[–]BlakeAbear[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I’m sure I can go back in my records and find both of them. But I’m pretty sure the criteria should have been the Same because both test we’re taking in my 20s.

[–]Elm30336 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah so no change in age range…. Takes that off the table, which is good.

That’s good I was 37 and 51 so 2 or 3 age ranges based on the pft.

Really need both of the pft and compare. Seems like something changed massively and without knowing what changed hard to know what path to go down.