The Board has determined that the Veteran does not have a current disability of erectile dysfunction/decreased sex drive, brittle nails, or numbness of the bilateral toes and fingers that is related to service. The evidence does not support a finding of continuity of symptomatology since service.
The deciding factor: There is no competent medical evidence linking these claimed disabilities to military service, nor has the Veteran proffered credible statements indicating that he has had continuous symptoms of these claimed disabilities since his active duty.
- Claimed conditions
- erectile dysfunction/decreased sex drive, brittle nails, numbness of the bilateral toes and the bilateral fingers
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- October 13, 2011
- Citation
- 1138223
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What this means for you
A final Board denial may be appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, generally within 120 days of the Board mailing date. A Supplemental Claim with new and relevant evidence is a separate option. Another Higher-Level Review of the Board decision is not available. Check your own notice: this historical decision does not set your deadline.
What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has granted service connection for erectile dysfunction, but denied service connection for deterioration of the joints in the feet, enlarged prostate, brittle nails, and loss of feeling in fingers of the left hand as these conditions are not found to be secondary to the Veteran's service-connected idiopathic angioedema.
- Whole decision: Dismissed
The Veteran's appeals for service connection on all issues related to muscle weakness, vertigo, stomach condition, brittle nails, dental problems, diabetes mellitus, right lower extremity neuropathy, left lower extremity neuropathy, right upper extremity neuropathy, left upper extremity neuropathy, carpal tunnel syndrome, impotence, and hypertension have been dismissed due to the Veteran's withdrawal of his claims.
- Whole decision: Dismissed
The Veteran withdrew his appeal of the issues related to service connection for kidney stones, also claimed as kidney pain; a chronic prostate disorder; skin rashes; brittle nails; a chronic bladder disorder; a chronic neurological disorder of the arms and legs; a headache disorder; sinusitis and allergies; gastroesophageal reflux disease; and stomach cancer, also claimed as cancerous polyps in the colon and a cancerous tumor in the duodenum.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claims for service connection are being remanded due to the need to locate and consider additional VA medical records, including those from Oklahoma City and Muskogee, Oklahoma, that may contain pertinent information.
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