The Board finds that the appellant does not have current diagnoses of pelvic inflammatory disease or abdominal cramps and vomiting due to service. The preponderance of evidence indicates these conditions are unrelated to her military service.
The deciding factor: There is no competent medical evidence linking the appellant's current symptoms to her in-service treatment for pelvic inflammatory disease, which occurred only once in 1975.
- Claimed conditions
- Pelvic Inflammatory Disease, Abdominal Cramps and Vomiting (due to menses)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 13, 2013
- Citation
- 1308548
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