The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for sexual dysfunction, finding no relationship between his PTSD or its medications and the claimed disability.
The deciding factor: Medical opinions concluded that there was no evidence to support a link between PTSD medications and erectile dysfunction. The veteran is a lay person without medical expertise to provide such an opinion.
- Claimed conditions
- Sexual dysfunction
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 1, 2008
- Citation
- 0814475
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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