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What are your medications telling you?
The medications you take for service-connected conditions carry FDA-labeled side effects — and a condition caused by a medication you're required to take can be claimable as secondary. Check yours against the labels. Everything here is label-documented — nothing invented.
Medication Check
Nothing leaves your browser12 medication groups covered — the ones most prescribed for service-connected conditions. Add yours and see what the labels say.
- Label-documented onlyEvery lead comes from the medication's FDA prescribing information — nothing invented, never a diagnosis.
- Secondary, under § 3.310A condition caused or worsened by the treatment a service-connected condition requires can be its own claim, with its own rating.
- Nothing storedThe check runs in your browser. What you type never leaves it.
How this can become a claim
From a label lead to a secondary claim.
Under 38 CFR §3.310, a disability that's caused or worsened by a service-connected condition — or by the treatment that condition requires — can be service-connected as a secondary claim. If your knee is service-connected and years of prescribed NSAIDs damaged your stomach, the stomach condition can be its own claim, with its own rating.
What the VA needs to see: the diagnosis, the medication history connecting it to the service-connected condition, and a medical opinion making the link. That last part is a licensed provider's call — this tool only shows you where the FDA label says it's worth asking.
Educational only — never a diagnosis, never a promise of any rating or outcome. The VA decides claims on the evidence.
Obstructive sleep apnea DC 6847
This claim needs: a nexus opinion.
- 1 · The diagnosisOn record — the VA already conceded it
- 2 · What happened, and how it affects youYour statement · daily life · a witness
- 3 · The link to your serviceReady to draft — this answers the denialDraft it →
How VA rates it — your records document the 50% level.
“Patient uses CPAP nightly, compliance 92% of nights.” — sleep study, p. 3
Found a lead?
Build the claim it points to
Commander lays the claim out the way VA decides it — the diagnosis, the medication history, and the medical link — and drafts the documents around your records.