The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including pelvic inflammatory disease and hysterectomy-related conditions, have rendered her unable to secure or maintain substantially gainful employment. The Board has granted a TDIU based on this finding.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, particularly her chronic abdominal pain and depression, significantly impair her ability to engage in substantial gainful employment consistent with her education and experience.
- Claimed conditions
- pelvic inflammatory disease, post-operative subtotal hysterectomy, right unilateral salpingoophorectomy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- September 20, 2012
- Citation
- 1232523
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- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's request for an earlier effective date for her service-connected hysterectomy, finding that the earliest possible effective date is September 24, 2018, as this was the date she filed a claim to reopen her previously denied claim.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Veteran's appeal for higher SMC ratings and a 10% rating based on multiple noncompensable service-connected disabilities is denied. The Veteran is already receiving the maximum allowable compensation for loss of use of a creative organ (female sexual arousal disorder). Her other service-connected conditions do not interfere with her employability.
- Whole decision: Dismissed
The Veteran's TDIU appeal is dismissed because she already has a 100% rating for PTSD, which constitutes total disability.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's claims for service connection for a gynecological condition, including cervical dysplasia, adenomyosis, endometriosis, pelvic inflammatory disease, and a hysterectomy, have been reopened. The claim of service connection for fainting vasovagal syncope is remanded due to the need for a VA examination.
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