The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for a menstrual disorder, finding that her condition is not related to her service and does not meet the criteria for presumptive service connection due to an undiagnosed illness or medically unexplained chronic multisymptom illness.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found no objective signs or symptoms which may be manifestations of an undiagnosed illness or medically unexplained chronic multisymptom illness, and attributed the Veteran's fatigue and anemia to her service-connected hepatitis B.
- Claimed conditions
- menstrual disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- January 31, 2019
- Citation
- 19107410
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
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- Whole decision: Partly granted
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