The Board has determined that new and material evidence has been submitted to reopen claims for generalized anxiety disorder, sleep disorder, and loss of concentration. However, no new and material evidence was found to support the reopening of claims for joint pain (knees and ankles), fatigue, shortness of breath, diarrhea, abdominal pain, or facial rash as due to an undiagnosed illness.
The deciding factor: The Board evaluated the submitted evidence and determined that it did not provide sufficient new information to reopen the claims related to generalized anxiety disorder, sleep disorder, and loss of concentration. The evidence for joint pain (knees and ankles), fatigue, shortness of breath, diarrhea, abdominal pain, or facial rash as due to an undiagnosed illness was found to be insufficient.
- Claimed conditions
- generalized anxiety disorder, sleep disorder, loss of concentration, joint pain (bilateral knee and ankle pain), fatigue, shortness of breath, diarrhea, abdominal pain, facial rash
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 16, 2004
- Citation
- 0409951
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- Partly granted
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- Granted
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has determined that the AOJ did not obtain all necessary opinions regarding whether the Veteran's symptoms are related to an undiagnosed illness or medically unexplained chronic multisymptom illness (MUCMI). The claims for service connection for fatigue, fibromyalgia, left elbow disorder, right elbow disorder, and sleep disorder are remanded for further development.
- Granted
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