The Board denied the veteran's service connection claims for various conditions, including low back disability, major depression, memory loss, mood swings, and sleeplessness due to an undiagnosed illness, joint pain due to an undiagnosed illness, testicular cancer (to include as secondary to Persian Gulf War service), loss of appetite due to an undiagnosed illness, impotence due to an undiagnosed illness, constipation due to an undiagnosed illness, postoperative residuals of a lipoma of the left infrascapular area, and blood in the bowels due to an undiagnosed illness. The Board found that there was no evidence supporting these claims.
The deciding factor: The veteran did not provide sufficient evidence to establish service connection for any of the conditions he claimed as his symptoms were not related to his military service or exposure to known risk factors such as Agent Orange, Camp Lejeune, Gulf War Syndrome, etc. The Board also noted that there was no medical evidence linking these conditions to his service-connected right 5th metacarpal fracture.
- Claimed conditions
- low back disability, major depression, memory loss, mood swings, and sleeplessness due to an undiagnosed illness, joint pain due to an undiagnosed illness, testicular cancer (to include as secondary to Persian Gulf War service), loss of appetite due to an undiagnosed illness, impotence due to an undiagnosed illness, constipation due to an undiagnosed illness, postoperative residuals of a lipoma of the left infrascapular area, blood in the bowels due to an undiagnosed illness, headaches, nausea, deterioration of the teeth, and constipation due to an undiagnosed illness
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 3, 2001
- Citation
- 0109767
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