The Veteran's joint pain has been attributed to known clinical diagnoses and is not related to an undiagnosed illness or medically unexplained chronic multisymptom illness. Service connection for fibromyalgia is denied as part of the current claim.
The deciding factor: There is no evidence of a diagnosed condition such as fibromyalgia in service records, and the Veteran's joint pain has not been linked to an undiagnosed illness or medically unexplained chronic multisymptom illness.
- Claimed conditions
- {"condition_name":"Chronic Joint Pain","claimed_conditions":["Fibromyalgia"]}
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 13, 2019
- Citation
- 19193761
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What this means for you
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