The Board found that there is no current diagnosis of a stomach disability and thus denied service connection for stomach cramps.
The deciding factor: There were no objective indications of a qualifying chronic disability, including signs or symptoms in the medical sense, of an undiagnosed illness or medically unexplained multi-symptom illness after Persian Gulf service.
- Claimed conditions
- stomach cramps
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 1, 2017
- Citation
- 1730555
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- Dismissed
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Partly granted
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claim of service connection for gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) due to a duty to assist error. The Veteran's GERD is claimed as secondary to his service-connected posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
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