The Veteran's claims for service connection for bilateral ingrown toenails, a bilateral hand disorder, migraine headaches, complex allergies, and increased ratings for her service-connected rheumatoid arthritis of the knees, wrists, and feet, as well as an earlier effective date for her disability evaluations, are all denied.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service treatment records do not show any diagnosis or complaints related to ingrown toenails. There is no current medical evidence of a current 'disability' for these conditions. The VA examiner did not find signs of ingrown toenails during the October 2001 examination.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral ingrown toenails, migraine headaches, complex allergies, rheumatoid arthritis of the knees, wrists, and feet, rheumatic heart disease with valvular dysfunction
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 29, 2009
- Citation
- 0920007
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