The Board has granted a 20 percent disability rating for the service-connected right and left lower extremity diabetic peripheral neuropathy, effective from the date of the decision.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's symptoms were found to approximate moderate incomplete paralysis of the femoral nerve, warranting a 20 percent rating under Diagnostic Code 8526.
- Claimed conditions
- Right lower extremity diabetic peripheral neuropathy, Left lower extremity diabetic peripheral neuropathy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- August 21, 2019
- Citation
- 19164857
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What this means for you
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- Granted
The Board granted earlier effective dates for the grant of service connection for DM II, left lower extremity diabetic peripheral neuropathy, and right lower extremity diabetic peripheral neuropathy.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for diabetes mellitus type II, hypertension as secondary to diabetes mellitus type II, and bilateral lower extremity diabetic peripheral neuropathy as secondary to diabetes mellitus type II.
- Granted
The Board granted increased disability ratings of 40 percent for both the left and right lower extremity diabetic peripheral neuropathy, effective May 27, 2022, as well as a total disability rating based on individual unemployability from that date.
- Granted
The Board granted the appeal to restore the 20 percent evaluation for left lower extremity diabetic peripheral neuropathy effective June 1, 2025, as the reduction was improper.
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