Blood Clots and Agent Orange

My son has been battling clots for almost 10 years now. He is 38, and just suffered a very serious clot to his brain. My husband died from small cell lung cancer, and received Agent Orange after his death. Is the VA recognizing any clotting disorders for the children of Viet Nam vets?

My husband Vietnam vet extreme exposure to AO Has had cancer. Now multiable clots PE in both lungs. No explanation why. Does not fit normal criteria for PE development . Doctors can’t explain how they developed. On to hematologists for further review. Dr stated cancer could be underlying cause. I believe AO could be the problem.

My husband just go to the hospital with a blood clot in his lung and I can't figure out why he got it. He is active and he wasn't on a long trip.. Also he had about 4 large nodules on his thyroid and a lot of small ones thank God not cancerous. And he also has high blood pressure. He served in the VN 1967 – 68

My husband is in the hospital right now with a DVT in his right leg, AND multiple bilateral pulmonary emboli. He too, was exposed to Agent Orange while serving during the Vietnam Conflict. No one in his family has had this, nor has he travelled anywhere, or had recent surgery. The doctors are baffled that he just doesn't fit the "mold" for someone who has this condition. We believe exposure to Agent Orange is the cause. They told him he will always have them so he must be on anticoagulants the rest of his life. This is a man who never smoked, drank, took drugs, etc. Will be taking his records to the VA to support his claim for Agent Orange.

Both my husband his brother have had multiple lung blood clots at least twice each and both are on blood thinners for the rest of their lives. They were both exposed to agent orange in viet nam in 1966-67 and 1967-68. There is no history of clots in family and other sisters have not have the problem.

How's your claim coming along or what was the outcome?

President Donald J. Trump May 12, 2020
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW,
Washington, DC 20500

cc; Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Robert Wilkie
Veteran Affairs Building
810 Vermont Ave, NW
Washington DC, 20420

cc; Representative Steven Horsford
2550 Las Vegas Blvd, N. Suite 500
North Las Vegas, Nevada 89030

cc; Utah office of Veterans Affairs
550 Foothill Dr. Suite 105
Salt Lake City, Utah 84113

file #25701176

President Trump,

I am writing to you because I feel I have not been treated fairly by the Veterans Administration. In 2012 as a resident of Florida, I entered the VA system with a Priority 3 group. It was #3 because I received a purple heart while serving 1 year of combat on an armor personnel carrier. This is written on the form I received, “Thank you for enrolling with the Department of Veterans Affairs health care system. We will do our best to provide you health care that is second to none.” That is quite a statement, and I now after 17 years of joining, I seriously question that statement.

In April of 2011, while living in Wisconsin, I had a blood clot in my left leg. It covered from my foot to my groin. I was hospitalized for 5 days and it was very painful. The Dr’s wanted to know if I had been on an airplane or seated for a long period of time. That was not possible as I was taking a walk every day for at least 8 miles per day. This was called DVT, Deep Vein Thrombosis. It is not a family problem. I had to take blood thinner medicine for over one year. I also began to see skin tags, and had an enlarged prostate gland.

Sometime in about 2015, while living in Utah, I had another bout with DVT, this time it was in my right left. I recognized what it could have been and went to the hospital. Now I was burdened with having to take blood thinner medicine for the rest of my life. This I believe was the cause of being exposed to Agent Orange while being in the field for one year in the Duc Pho, and Chu Lai region of Viet Nam. I also believe that Agent Orange is responsible for my skin cancer, englared prostate, higher than normal blood pressure and hearing loss with tinnitus.

During the time I was living in Utah, I applied for a Purple Heart license plate and noticed that on my discharge paper, DD214, I was listed as a Private E-3 First Class. This was an error as I was a Specialist 4, E-4, at the time of my discharge. I have sent the Army proof of my correct rank, but the Army has denied my request to have my DD214 corrected to show the proper discharge rank. This was assigned case #AR20160010847. Then when I requested further another case number was assigned #AR20150009989, deigning my request to have my DD214 corrected. Their correspondence had several mistakes and one in particular stated they presumed I was reduced in rank, and this did not happen.

On May 8, 2015, I submitted my request for compensation for what I have come to believe are maladies caused by the exposure to Agent Orange. From then to now the VA has denied what I believe are what is due me for my exposure to Agent Orange. I have talked to two other soldiers who I served with who receive compensation for Agent Orange exposure and I suspect there are more that I am not aware of.

In February of 2016 I did get a hearing examination and was awarded a 10% disability for tinnitus. Also in 2016 the VA sent me a letter stating that I had to prove my problems were caused by Agent Orange. This to me is wrong as I was exposed to Agent Orange and I personally know of soldiers that were at the same time and place as Agent Orange was being used and many of the Landing Zones were heavily treated with Agent Orange. At one time being under aircraft that was spreading Agent Orange. My belief that the VA should cause my medical proof should come from them and not at my expense.

Without hearing more from the VA in 2019, I contacted Representative Steven Horsford for help in dealing with the VA. His help did not move my request for the rank correction or any help for Agent Orange compensation. I also filled out forms on line to get compensation for what I had first applied for. For this I got another letter saying I filled out the wrong form which should have been 0995 instead of 0996. Really, because of a wrong form? So I will include form 0995.

Mr. Trump, I am hopeful you can help a US Army Combat Veteran and Purple Heat recipient to receive what I believe is due me. I am nearly 73 years of age, and I feel the VA is waiting for me to die, so they will not have to deal me with me.

I am currently being treated by the Pahrump, Nevada VA for Deep Vein Thrombosis, which is believed to be caused by Agent Orange.

According to “38 U.S.C.A. §§ 1110, 5107" the VA is to give the veteran the benefit of doubt. This should be done as it is my claim, that Agent Orange is the only viable explanation to my having Deep Vein Thrombosis, as there is not family history of DVT.

Arnold H. 

Yes! My husband is going through the same thing! Blood clot that traveled to the lungs . Pulmonary embolism! They gave him blood thinners to dissolve it, saying why they still don’t know he got it. Now after being taken off blood thinners, a new clot has formed in his right leg near the groin, starting to seep into his artery which is very dangerous and if it goes in the artery it will block blood flow to the heart. He’s back on Xarelto blood thinner. He served in VN 1967 and 1968 until January of 1969.

I am in the VA in Salt Lake City undergoing treatment for blood clots in my legs, abdomen, lungs. The VA is very good here. Dr. KinnyKinny has been treating me. My treatments have been TPA for six days. That us a venom from a Mayslan Pit Followed by Stints. Which were put in place to prevent an IVC filter failure. I have been on Xarelto daily for over 4 years now. I am 73 now. I am slowly getting better. But as your father knows. aĺ it takes is one episode of clots and you are horizontal again. It appears that Kamala Garrison us keeping her promise to curtail Veterans benefits.

I served 2 tours in Vietnam. I have had 3 blood clots in my legs. This month on the 3rd I had 2 clots in my heart, one in the upper and one in the lower chamber of my heart. The first came out and lodged in the inside of my right elbow. Five days later the second came out and lodged in the same place in my left elbow. I was on Plavix & Eliquis at the time. Now I am on Pradaxa and so far I am ok.Nobody can tell me that agent orange is not to blame.

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I served in Vietnam from 67-68 then 69-70. I too have DVT and have had 5 clots and been turned down by the VA for disability for DVT. You can hire a lawyer after you have been turned down and they don't charge you unless you win. They only get a % of your lump sum then the rest of your life the money is all yours. They can also help with your rank. Don't give up because they have to give you back pay back to the first time you put the claim in. I know because I got 18 years of back pay!

I was in Vietnam, Tay Ninh province 1966-1967, I have developed acute and subacute peripheral neuropathy. There is no history of this in my family. Should I be looking into Agent Orange as a possible cause?

My husband was in VN, he died in 2021 at the age of 72. I ordered a autopsy. He died from 1. pulmonary thromboembolism, bilateral pulmonary arteries of each lung.
2. Deep vein thrombosis, right lower extremity.
I'm going to file for benefits, there are more and more articles about veteran's dieing or living with this problem.

Hi there my father had a stroke at 30 yrs old then had siezure high blood pressure and migraines now he is gone and I am getting closer to answers I have had a blood clot in the brain double vision osteoarthritis fibermialga high blood pressure I can’t have any more kids because due to I got my tubes tied2003 because no dr would put me on birth control I a starting to feel like the government doesn’t care and this is their fault

Hi there my father had a stroke at 30 yrs old then had siezure high blood pressure and migraines now he is gone and I am getting closer to answers I have had a blood clot in the brain double vision osteoarthritis fibermialga high blood pressure I can’t have any more kids because due to I got my tubes tied2003 because no dr would put me on birth control I a starting to feel like the government doesn’t care and this is their fault