The veteran's anxiety with psychophysiologic gastrointestinal and musculoskeletal reaction is productive of occasional depressed mood, occasional anxiety, and subjective complaint of acid reflux resulting in occupational and social impairment with occasional decrease in work efficiency but not resulting in occupational and social impairment with reduced reliability and productivity.
The deciding factor: The veteran's symptoms do not meet the criteria for a higher rating as his panic attacks are reported to be occasional rather than frequent.
- Claimed conditions
- Anxiety with psychophysiologic gastrointestinal and musculoskeletal reaction
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- December 7, 2006
- Citation
- 0638008
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