The Board has granted service connection for chronic constipation and remanded the issue of entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities (TDIU).
The deciding factor: Service connection was established as the Veteran's current chronic constipation is related to his in-service encephalitis.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic constipation
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 24, 2019
- Citation
- 19105930
What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings and service connection, finding that the evidence did not support a finding of a causal relationship between the claimed conditions and active duty service.
- Dismissed
The Board denied the veteran's appeal for increased ratings and service connection due to untimely filing of the appeal requests.
- Partly granted
The Board denied increased ratings for migraines and chronic sinusitis, granted service connection for allergic rhinitis as secondary to the service-connected sinusitis, and granted a 30 percent rating for chronic constipation.
- Dismissed
The Board dismissed the appeals for service connection for various conditions as there was no appealable decision from the February 6, 2024, deferred rating.
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