The Veteran's symptoms of fatigue, chronic headaches, joint pain, and sleep disturbances have not been diagnosed as a result of service or an undiagnosed illness. The Board finds that the evidence does not support finding diagnoses of these conditions.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner did not find any diagnosis for the Veteran's claimed conditions and concluded that they are attributable to other diagnosed conditions, including his service-connected right knee disorder and a psychiatric condition.
- Claimed conditions
- Fatigue, Chronic Headaches, Joint Pain (unspecified), Sleep Disturbances
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 24, 2018
- Citation
- 1804478
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