I am sorry for not keeping it updated as it should be for I am also now running the NGWRC too.
I will have the old information moved to this site soon, while I keep adding new information. You will find a lot of it on the NGWRC website www.ngwrc.org and the gulf war illness part of the website Veteran Benefits Networks http://vets.yuku.com/forums/71/Gulf-War-Illness It is one of the best place to get advice on your claim.
James A. Bunker
AKA Kansasvet
Mission Statement of the Veteran Information Network :
We are veterans, family members, and those who care about helping veterans who served since 1988 until today.
We are here to be a support and information group to veteran.
We are here to help veterans to become better informed about changes in laws that will help them in filing their claims before the VA.
We will continual to push for better medical treatment so that veterans will alwaya gets the best care in this nation.
Whenever we can, we will work to change the laws to improve the care of veterans and their loved ones, improve the training of care givers and the training of claims raters.
We will work as best as we can to inform Doctors of problems that the modern-day battlefield causes our veterans.
For years, we Have been telling every one to keep a record of the medical problems they are having and what the Doctors did for them; or what the veteran did to help them selves out.
I have talked to some veterans that knew to do this, but they did not. If they did it would have helped them with their VA claims.
We need to get the word out to keep going to your doctors and getting copies of those appointments. Files do get " lost".
If you go to the doctors for, say joint pain, and you have CFS or FM tell your doc that it might be from that. The same for some other illnesses, I will post the list in the next few days.
The more you show that you are trying to get help for the problem and the more often you do, the higher the rating maybe.
Same thing with your headaches makes sure your notes have each one and what they were like and how they started. See the doctors and do not quit, that helps to tell your doctor and RO just how bad they are. If they are so bad that you cannot drive to the VA, and know one, else can drive you, call the VA and ask what to do.
DO NOT STOP SEEING YOU DOCTORS the VA will and has used this to decrease ratings and from giving many a higher rating. The VA wants us to quit and some have, we need to get them back in and keep helping them.
