The Board has granted a 30 percent disability evaluation for the veteran's loss of bowel control, effective from February 9, 1999.

The Board denied an evaluation in excess of 30 percent for multiple sclerosis and granted evaluations of 40 percent, 30 percent, and 20 percent for left upper extremity peripheral neuropathy, right upper extremity peripheral neuropathy, and left lower extremity peripheral neuropathy (sciatic) respectively. The Board also denied an evaluation in excess of 20 percent for voiding dysfunction and loss of bowel control.

The Veteran's post-operative residuals of cervical syringomyelia, with loss of bowel control and sexual dysfunction, were not manifested by a limitation of musculoskeletal motion that approximated a rating higher than 30 percent, or by moderate to severe neurological symptomatology that approximated a rating higher than 30 percent for the period October 27, 2003, to November 16, 2010.

The Board has determined that there is no evidence of a claim for service connection for loss of bowel control prior to April 5, 2001. As such, the effective date for the grant of service connection for this condition cannot be earlier than April 5, 2001.

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.