Va Rating For Sleep Apnea Secondary To Tinnitus

Many veterans attempt to service-connect sleep apnea as a primary disability condition and cant seem to figure our why the VA keeps denying your sleep apnea claim.

Va rating for sleep apnea secondary to tinnitus. If you think your sleep apnea is secondary to your PTSD see our previous post Sleep Apnea Secondary to PTSD. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk. We also ask for service connection for Obstructive Sleep Apnea secondary to PTSD. There is a strong BVA ruling granting service connection to insomnia secondary to Tinnitus.

I believe I did not have sleep apnea prior to going to Vietnam. The private doctor stated that the Veterans complaints regarding tinnitus in his sleep disturbance had to do with the initiation of sleep which would be insomnia. They suggest that OSA may promote hearing loss through ischemia and inflammation of the cochlea. In 2011 my same Doctor sent me for a second Sleep Study and again I had OSA and they prescribed a new CPAP.

Theres a lot about depression with profound hearing loss but very little about tinnitus. You say you have all kinds of documentation that depression may be secondary to tinnitus and I cant find anything like that. And 3 complex mixed sleep apnea syndrome. Sleep Apnea Secondary to Tinnitus.

Veterans are assigned either a 0 30 50 or 100 percent rating depending on the severity of their condition. Once service connection is awarded sleep apnea is then rated under 38 CFR 497 Diagnostic Code 6847 Sleep Apnea Syndromes obstructive central mixed. Sleep apnea is a potentially serious sleep disorder in which a persons breathing is repeatedly interrupted during the course of the night. Veterans in this post I list more than 50 possible sleep apnea secondary conditions so veterans can win service-connect and rate your sleep apnea VA claim in less time.

REASONS FOR REMAND The Veteran served on active duty from May. VA is very aware that veterans are applying like crazy for the OSA benefit since its a 50 rating. The most common condition that sleep apnea is connected to is PTSD. The medical literature strongly supports a correlation between sleep apnea and MDD PTSD.

Veterans are assigned a 0 30 50 or 100 percent rating depending on the severity. 2 central sleep apnea. If you have sleep apnea and any of the following conditions there may be a link between your service-connected condition and the other condition. Weight gain due to negative emotional reactions to ear buzzes can be claimed as a cause of a veterans sleep apnea.

Entitlement to service connection for sleep difficulty to include sleep apnea claimed as secondary to tinnitus is remanded. She had me complete a Sleep Study which resulted in my first CPAP machine. Although a bit difficult to prove sleep apnea can be linked as well to Tinnitus. On a side note I did find a recent study 2016 that found an association between obstructive sleep apnea OSA and tinnitus but they concluded that it is the OSA that may cause tinnitus and hearing loss.

A medical nexus ie link between their sleep apnea and the in-service event injury or illness. I guess my question is can I file a VA Claim for sleep apnea as result of me being in country. This particular vet was diagnosed earlier with OSA obstructive sleep apnea back in 2001 Later in 2012 the vet sought again medical treatment for insomnia. December 27 2018 REMANDED Entitlement to service connection for tinnitus is remanded.

Sleep Apnea secondary to Tinnitus is rated under 38 CFR 497 Diagnostic Code 6847. There are three main types of sleep apnea including the following.