I just want to say to everyone here to remember your "why". You served, you deserve. On a side note, had tinnitus connected late 2021. Finally got over my own mental roadblock of filing for my other ailments after losing 1 job and almost another due to my back.

ITF may 2023. Invoked a VSO Aril 2024. I wanted to go the road of getting my back service connected with MH secondary. My VSO has been great but wanted to only file for the back initially. I pushed back and said "no, I want to preserve my ITF date for both. So we did. Got my back connected in Sept 24, which put me at 60% overall with over a year of back pay. Huge win. C&P shortly after for MH. Received 70% a couple days ago which put me at 90%.

That being said, if I would have just said ok I would have missed out on roughly 15k in backpay that will soon hit my account. Good luck to everyone and have a great weekend!!