The Board has remanded the case for compliance with VCAA requirements and to obtain an independent medical examination regarding the veteran's fibromyalgia.
The deciding factor: The veteran's claim requires additional development due to failure to comply with VCAA notification requirements and need for a medical opinion on the etiology of her fibromyalgia.
- Claimed conditions
- depression/dysthymia, chronic musculoskeletal pain syndrome (fibromyalgia)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 13, 2004
- Citation
- 0432974
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What this means for you
A remand sends an issue back for more development, often a new examination or missing records. It does not award the benefit or decide the final outcome. The original decision explains the additional work ordered.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Veteran's appeal to reopen service connection for depression/dysthymia was granted.,The Veteran's appeals to reopen service connection for a nervous disorder, chronic bilateral dislocation of the sternoclavicular joints, lumbosacral strain, right foot pes planus, and left foot pes planus were all denied.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case for further development, including a VA examination to determine if the Veteran's depression/dysthymia is related to service or his service-connected heart disease.
- Denied
The Board found that depression/dysthymia was not incurred in or aggravated by service and denied the claim. The PTSD issue is addressed separately.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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