The Veteran's service-connected cholinergic urticaria is rated at 10 percent, and the Board found no evidence of more than this level of disability.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence did not show recurrent debilitating episodes or second-line treatment for control required by higher rating criteria.
- Claimed conditions
- Cholinergic Urticaria
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- March 13, 2019
- Citation
- 19118350
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- Partly granted
The Veteran was granted an initial rating of 60 percent for cholinergic urticaria prior to January 15, 2016. The appeal is denied for a rating in excess of 10 percent beginning January 15, 2016.,The Veteran's TDIU claim was granted for the entire period prior to January 15, 2016.
- Granted
The Veteran's cholinergic urticaria is rated at 30 percent, effective from August 15, 2011. The Board found that the Veteran's symptoms more closely approximated a need for intermittent systemic immunosuppressive therapy to control his symptoms.
- Granted
The Board granted an earlier effective date of May 29, 1981 for the increased rating for cholinergic urticaria and a December 31, 1983 for TDIU. The Veteran is currently in receipt of a 60% rating for cholinergic urticaria with an effective date of August 11, 1993.
- Granted
The Veteran's cholinergic urticaria was granted an initial 10 percent rating effective May 28, 2011. The condition is manifested by recurrent episodes of rash occurring at least four times during a previous 12-month period that responds to treatment with antihistamines.
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