The Board has granted service connection for the removal of the uterus as secondary to her service-connected endomyometritis and dysmenorrhea, and also granted SMC based on loss of use of a creative organ (uterus and cervix).
The deciding factor: The Veteran's hysterectomy was proximately due to her service-connected endomyometritis and dysmenorrhea.
- Claimed conditions
- endomyometritis, dysmenorrhea, probable uterine fibroids and ovarian cysts
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- October 1, 2020
- Citation
- 20064074
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,669 · Granted: 23% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Dismissed
The Veteran withdrew her appeals for the service connection of multiple conditions, including low back disability, bilateral foot disability, cervical spine disability, migraines, right hand and shoulder disabilities, right wrist disability, asthma (claimed as Gulf War Syndrome), chronic fatigue syndrome, dysmenorrhea, irritable bowel syndrome, and sleep disability. As a result, these claims are dismissed.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for the award of service connection for gynecological disorders, including endometrial ovarian cysts, dysmenorrhea, and dyspareunia is granted. The effective date is set at June 5, 2019.
- Whole decision: Granted
The February 2008 rating decision denying service connection for dysmenorrhea is revised to grant service connection due to errors in the determination.
- Whole decision: Dismissed
The Board dismissed the appeal because the August 2025 proposal to sever service connection for dysmenorrhea was not a final rating decision.
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