The Board has granted the veteran's petition to reopen his claim for service connection for fibromyalgia and assigned a 10 percent disability rating for allergic rhinitis. The appeal is resolved in favor of the veteran.
The deciding factor: New evidence submitted since the August 1996 decision supports the reopening of the claim for service connection for fibromyalgia, which was found to be well-grounded based on medical opinions linking current symptoms to active service and a pre-existing condition. The allergic rhinitis is rated at 10 percent as there are no nasal polyps.
- Claimed conditions
- fibromyalgia, allergic rhinitis
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- June 15, 2000
- Citation
- 0015912
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