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247 votesstarted · 32 comments · 2012 Report of the Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses Task Force (GWVI-TF) » TF Report Feedback · Admin →
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My VA Doctor didn't document most of the symptoms I was telling them about for years. I was denied disability for these symptoms twice. The first time there was no such thing as Desert Storm Syndrome, or Gulf War Illness. All I knew was that I was sick. For 18 years I fought for this, but they compensated back to the date when I last filed. So they saved the VA 16 years of money by denying my claim. How criminal. Only after my County VA Rep got involved, and got the VFW involved was I approved. I got out of the military disabled from two other issues, so I was already in the VA system. When you go to the civilian, military, and VA Clinics they give you a questionnaire asking if you have all these illnesses that the average person wouldn't know what those illnesses were, or if have it. They may not have been diagnosed with it by a doctor if they do have it. So it matters not if you have an illness if it hasn't been diagnosed. Instead of asking a person if he/she has the illness, they should if the person has the symptoMs. The stupid questionnaire is later used against you when you file a claim for VA disability.