The Board reopens the Veteran's claims of entitlement to service connection for PTSD, a skin disorder characterized as rashes, abnormal growths, and an excised cyst on the tail bone, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and shrinking testicles. It then addresses these claims on their merits.,Service connection is denied for a right chest lump, residuals of exposure to sarin oil and nerve agents, smoke inhalation, radiation exposure, irritable bowel syndrome, and tinea cruris.
The deciding factor: The evidence received since the prior denials relates to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claims for PTSD, a skin disorder, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and shrinking testicles.,There is no objective indication of record of a right chest lump or residuals of exposure to sarin oil and nerve agents. The Veteran does not currently have a disability representing these conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- major depression, right chest lump, residuals of exposure to sarin oil and nerve agents, PTSD, skin disorder characterized as rashes, abnormal growths, and an excised cyst on the tail bone, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, shrinking testicles, smoke inhalation residuals, radiation exposure residuals, irritable bowel syndrome, tinea cruris
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 17, 2009
- Citation
- 0909809
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Decisions by this judge: 1,467 · Granted: 18% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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