The Board has granted service connection for sleep disturbances and is granting a compensable rating for left great toe degenerative joint disease. The issues of entitlement to service connection for right upper extremity arthralgia with numbness and tingling, entitlement to service connection for erectile dysfunction, entitlement to an initial compensable rating for left elbow epicondylitis, medial and lateral, and entitlement to a compensable rating for bilateral hearing loss are addressed in a separate decision.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the evidence is in relative equipoise as to whether the Veteran's currently diagnosed obstructive sleep apnea had its onset during active service. The Board granted service connection for this condition.
- Claimed conditions
- sleep disturbances, left great toe degenerative joint disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- February 20, 2018
- Citation
- 1810755
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board allowed the benefit or issue identified in this decision. Review the original order: other issues in the same appeal may have a different outcome, and this decision does not predict another claim.
What you can do next
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board has denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for lumbar spine, left knee, right knee, right wrist, headaches, and sleep disturbances as there is no persuasive evidence of current disabilities during the appeal period.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board has denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for various conditions, including sinusitis, right and left upper extremity radiculopathy, sleep disturbances, a right knee disability, osteoarthritis of the lumbar spine, allergic rhinitis, and patellofemoral syndrome with degenerative arthritis in the left knee. The Board found that there was insufficient evidence to support these claims.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's motion to revise June 2009 and July 2012 rating decisions that denied service connection for sleep disturbances, on the grounds of clear and unmistakable error (CUE), is remanded. The AOJ must adjudicate whether a claim of service connection for sleep apnea was reasonably raised at the time of the June 2009 and July 2012 rating decisions.
- Whole decision: Dismissed
The Board has dismissed the appeals for all issues related to service connection and rating decisions from February 2017, May 2019, and November 2019 due to untimely Notice of Disagreement filings.
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