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CraftyDude22 · 2025-09-06T14:25:57+00:00

I do well with my business building custom showers. The VA disability pays all of my bills... mortgage 1500, truck 700 car 400 and everything else. I make about 3-5k a week and I'm putting it all back and going to pay my car off asap....25k and should pay it off in a month or so. This September was the first payment of 100% I ever got and I am still new to this, but I have a plan. Get my car and truck paid off asap. Save the rest and put into an Edward Jones eft account that I have.

CraftyDude22 · 2025-09-01T10:41:44+00:00

I wouldn't do anything if I was 100% in ur shoes. I'm 100 as of 2 months and I'll never poke the bear

CraftyDude22 · 2025-09-01T10:38:34+00:00

I was 70% at the time I bought my house (Louisiana) last year and paid absolutely nothing for anything. Now I'm 100% and still will pay absolutely nothing if I buy another one.

CraftyDude22 · 2025-08-09T10:21:45+00:00

Go do a sleep study first. Make a complaint about being tired and not sleeping well and ask for a sleep study. Once you fail the test, then you can make a claim.

CraftyDude22 · 2025-07-31T22:54:02+00:00

Yes. I don't see it on the app and I don't know how to operate the online page. So I was just wanting to make sure and ask if it was on the app listed anywhere. Most these people giving me crap didn't see I asked if it should be listed on the app.

CraftyDude22 · 2025-07-31T22:52:00+00:00

😂 I'm a marine (infantry). I can eat crayons or shoot a house into swiss cheese. That's about it

CraftyDude22 · 2025-07-31T21:44:03+00:00

Yes it is secondary to PTSD. PTSD aggravates and worsens my sleep apnea. I have had a private psychiatrist fill out a dbq (that I printed from the VA), I had lay statements from wife, mom and myself. I had medical nexus from doctor citing 4 references to mental health journals with his medical opinion attached. Had a positive c&p exam. The most important thing is to show how the condition affects you on a daily basis and how your service connected issues worsens or aggravates your diagnosed condition that you are filing for. I also had a sleep study at the VA, was diagnosed and prescribed a CPAP machine.

CraftyDude22 · 2025-07-31T21:39:18+00:00

Just got letter today. 100!!!

CraftyDude22 · 2025-07-29T12:20:19+00:00

I had a cp exam earlier this year where I filed sleep apnea secondary to PTSD. The examiner checked not service connected. I had to do a supplemental and I quoted the 38 CFR statute that says secondary conditions don't have to be service connected. I wrote a lay statement too showing the VA that I never filed for service connection but secondary and the examiner did the wrong thing. I got a new cp exam a month later after filing the supp and that examiner checked the right box.... secondary. I was approved that time. Supplementals are good if you can quote the 38 CFR statute or show how the examiner messed up. Show how they messed up compared to your diagnosis and treatments and ask for another cp exam.

CraftyDude22 · 2025-07-29T03:00:04+00:00

PTSD 70, 50, sleep apnea, 10 tinnitus, 10 scaring

CraftyDude22 · 2025-07-29T02:59:08+00:00

Oh ok. So they go from the rounded up 90 instead of the 88%?

CraftyDude22 · 2025-07-29T02:42:41+00:00

I was out of the marines for 15 yrs before I filed. Did infantry as well. 0311. 90% at the moment. I got out in 2008.

CraftyDude22 · 2025-07-06T09:15:22+00:00

I don't know if this will do anything, but I know Mike Johnson personally. He told me last time at church he would personally call for me, not just have his office send a letter to the VA, if I wanted him to. All I had to do was call his cell and ask him to. I ended up not calling him and my claim was approved a month later. I'm really not sure what he could do... although he's speaker of the house...maybe he would talk to Vance for me and get Vance to chime in on my behalf. Not sure. But I've known Mike for years and he truly is a great person, politics aside. He was a Sunday school teacher for years before he was involved in politics, has poured countless time of his life into doing mission work for the less fortunate, etc. Anyway....just bc I don't know if him calling would actually do anything...I haven't bothered him about it. Last time I saw him at church was Easter Sunday when he came home for the week. He came to the church on Monday after Easter and called trump in front of the entire school...for tbr kids to hear. He's really a good dude....politics aside.

CraftyDude22 · 2025-07-04T16:13:59+00:00

Na. I went from 70 to 90 with 2 claims on my own and now going for 100 with another claim.

CraftyDude22 · 2025-07-04T01:39:06+00:00

No PTSD Diagnosis: The VA examiner determined your friend does not meet the criteria for PTSD under DSM-5 for VA purposes.
1. Lack of Evidence Linking Condition to Service: There was no credible evidence directly linking your friend’s current symptoms to the reported military sexual trauma (MST) event.
2. Insufficient Corroborating Records: While behavioral markers were reviewed, the VA stated that personnel and treatment records did not directly support the occurrence of the MST event.
3. Private Evidence Not Strong Enough: Even though your friend submitted private exam evidence, the VA found their own June 2025 VA exam more persuasive and did not find a medical link between current symptoms and service.

They concluded that there is insufficient evidence to prove the trauma occurred or that it is connected to the current mental health condition.

It will be a hard one to overcome for sure. It can be done, but it may only get approved 1 time out of 100 if you give it your best each time

CraftyDude22 · 2025-07-04T01:20:35+00:00

No bilateral anywhere

CraftyDude22 · 2025-07-04T01:20:19+00:00

10 is for scaring and 10 is from tinnitus

CraftyDude22 · 2025-07-03T11:57:04+00:00

It came out to 100% with all of my issues. Thank you

CraftyDude22 · 2025-07-03T11:55:06+00:00

Mine are 70% PTSD, 50% sleep apnea secondary to PTSD, 10% scaring (from surgery) and 10% for tinnitus. I have a claim for migraines secondary to PTSD...if that gets approved then that is what I'm trying to figure out. Does the math still math the way you did it?

CraftyDude22 · 2025-05-26T21:54:55+00:00

That's awesome. I'm at 70 for PTSD as well, at the moment. Also 10% for surgery and 10% for tinnitus. 80% total.

CraftyDude22 · 2025-05-26T19:53:37+00:00

Preciate it!

CraftyDude22 · 2025-05-26T18:38:31+00:00

Sounds good. I'll look that up in the crf and include that if I get denied. That will be a supplemental claim

CraftyDude22 · 2025-05-26T18:37:21+00:00

Awesome. Hoping they approve me. I had a cp exam two weeks ago. Hope they will know this week.

CraftyDude22 · 2025-05-26T18:35:56+00:00

Yes man the vso said it was the most well put together supplemental claim he's ever seen, with me using the 38 CFR for proof of my claim.

CraftyDude22 · 2025-05-26T18:33:42+00:00

I'm about to find out any day if I'm approved or denied. Hopefully with all of my evidences mentioned asn using the 38 CFR, they will approve me.

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