The Board denied the veteran's service connection claims for various conditions, finding no current disabilities or objective evidence of chronicity.
The deciding factor: There is no current medical evidence showing that the veteran currently has any of the claimed conditions or their residuals. The medical records do not support a diagnosis of skin pigment loss or frostbite residuals.
- Claimed conditions
- blisters on the lips and mouth, upset stomach with acidic stomach, memory loss, loss of protective pigment in skin of face, neck, and arms causing sunburn in blotches, generalized weakness and fatigue in muscles and joints, shortness of breath, bilateral shoulder disability, bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome, bilateral hip pain, bilateral knee disability, bilateral ankle disability, cramps in legs, back disability, chest pain and palpitations, headaches, neck pain
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 27, 2006
- Citation
- 0612057
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What this means for you
A denial is a starting point, not the end of the road. You can see why this claim fell short — and, if you are still inside the one-year window, the appeal lanes that may remain open to you.
What you can do next
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- Partly granted
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