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What does “We closed the notice for exam request” mean for my VA claim? This phrase indicates that the VSR has updated the status of your C&P exam request. It could mean they initiated, canceled, or completed a request, and no further exams are needed.
Prepare for a C&P Exam The VA will likely schedule a C&P exam to assess your hypertension. During the exam, the healthcare provider will take your blood pressure and ask about your symptoms, treatments, and how your hypertension affects your daily life.
Crying during a C&P exam is not inherently harmful to your claim; in fact, it could be helpful and serve as valuable evidence of the severity of your emotional or psychological condition.
Generally, veterans will attend a Compensation & Pension (C&P) examination and the examiner will use a goniometer to measure how far they can bend forward, backward, and side to side. VA will use these range of motion measurements to determine the severity of a veteran's back condition.
Medical records, whether a private physician, VA doctor, or in-service treatment will be a way to demonstrate the frequency, duration, and severity of symptoms. Sometimes employment records can be used to show how the condition and symptoms are affecting your daily life, at work, at home, or in social situations.
Criteria for a 100% PTSD Rating: Inappropriate Behavior: Engaging in dangerous or harmful behaviors that put oneself or others at risk. Inability to Perform Activities of Daily Living: This includes basic self-care tasks like maintaining hygiene, dressing, or preparing meals.
Getting a 100% PTSD rating from the VA is next to impossible. A 70% rating (the most common) is a high hurdle in it's own right. To achieve a 100% PTSD rating, it means you would literally have to be almost totally unable to function in everyday life.
In order for a Veteran's lay testimony to be used to establish a claimed in-service stressor for PTSD, the following must be proven: There is a diagnosis of PTSD by a VA psychiatrist or psychologist. The Veteran's symptoms are related to the stressor.
If you fail to show up to any claim or C&P exam(s), it is likely that your claim decision will be delayed while VA tries to reschedule your exam. Your claim could also be rated “as-is” (using only the current information in your file).
Can you be rated without an exam? Yes. If ordered to go to an exam should you just skip it? No you shouldn't. The exam gives the examiner (and veteran) the ability to discuss frequency and severity of symptoms which is how the VA rater determines what your rating should be when/if they service connect your claim.