The Board has remanded the claim of service connection for an undiagnosed illness or a medically unexplained chronic multisystem illness with symptoms of fatigue and sleep disturbance due to lack of evidence showing a known clinical diagnosis.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's symptoms of fatigue and sleep disturbance have not been adequately addressed in terms of whether they are related to a known clinical diagnosis, an undiagnosed illness, or a medically unexplained chronic multisystem illness.
- Claimed conditions
- undiagnosed illness, fatigue, sleep disturbance
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 7, 2019
- Citation
- 19184534
What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Dismissed
The veteran withdrew the appeal for all service connection and rating issues, and the Board has no jurisdiction to review these matters.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for a higher rating for sleep disturbance to correct an error in the duty to assist, specifically whether the Veteran's sleep disturbance symptoms are controlled by continuous medication.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for a disability manifested by fatigue, finding no evidence of the condition and attributing the Veteran's symptoms to other known diagnoses.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for fatigue and an initial rating above 10 percent for reactive airway disease, as the evidence did not support a finding of chronic fatigue or a disability that warranted a higher rating based on pulmonary function test results.
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