The Board has granted service connection for anxiety due to a general medical condition and dyssomnia NOS, but has remanded the issues of service connection for uterine fibroid cysts and stomach problems.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's anxiety disorder is related to her in-service surgeries under anesthesia and fear of oversleeping. The Board finds that her current diagnosis of an acquired psychiatric disorder began during her active military service.
- Claimed conditions
- anxiety due to a general medical condition: surgery under anaesthesia, dyssomnia NOS (also claimed as sleep disorder), uterine fibroid cysts, status post myomectomy, stomach problems
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 7, 2020
- Citation
- 20077426
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