Diabets
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) rates diabetes mellitus primarily under 38 CFR § 4.119, Diagnostic Code 7913. The rating depends on the severity of symptoms and the level of medical management required. Ratings range from 0% to 100%.
Diabetes can cause Neuropathy in both arms and legs. After completing Diabetes, the quiz will ask about your Neuropathy. Please answer those questions. If you do no experience Neuropathy, select NOT APPLICABLE.
The VA rating system determines the severity based on your Range of Motion on a “Flare-Up”. Consider a Flare-Up as the worst day in the last year.
Step 1. Diabetes and Neuropathy
If you have a diagnosis for diabetes, please continue the quiz.
If you have pain, tingling, or numbers in your arms, hands, fingers, legs and/or feet, you may aso be eligible for a rating. This is called neuropathy.
This quiz covers both diabetes and Neuropathy.
Neuropathy Upper Extremities. Neuropathy is pain, tingling, and/or numbness in the arms, hands, and or fingers is sometimes connected to Diabetes or other nerve damage. The VA rates Neuropathy Upper Extremity based on frequency. Do you feel the pain, tingling, and/or numbness all day every day, once a day, or a couple times per week or month?
Neuropathy Upper Extremities. Neuropathy is pain, tingling, and/or numbness in the arms, hands, and or fingers is sometimes connected to Diabetes or other nerve damage. The VA rates Neuropathy Upper Extremity based on frequency. Do you feel the pain, tingling, and/or numbness all day every day, once a day, or a couple times per week or month?
Step 2:
Review the Key Factors:
Regulation of activities means prescribed limitation of physical exertion to manage the disease.
Ketoacidosis and hypoglycemic reactions are serious complications and require medical documentation.
Complications like neuropathy, retinopathy, nephropathy, etc., may be rated separately if they meet criteria for individual compensation.
You will be asked about neuropathy after the Diabetes results are displayed.
Step 3:
Continue with the quiz for diabetes. Then you will complete the quizzes for Neuropathy for the right and left arms/hands, as well as the right/left legs/feet.
Neuropahty is pain, tingling, or numbess caused by Diabetes.
When completed, you will view the results of your quiz.