The Board has determined that the Veteran's left occipital neuralgia was incurred in or caused by service, and thus granted service connection for this condition.

The Board denied the Veteran's claims for CUE in a September 2007 rating decision and denied his requests for earlier effective dates for service connection.

The Board has referred the issues of whether there was clear and unmistakable error (CUE) in a September 2007 rating decision that denied service connection for left occipital neuralgia, originally claimed as headaches and migraines with dizziness and a blurry left eye, and entitlement to earlier effective dates for left occipital neuralgia and vision impairment. The Board has also remanded these issues.

The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including gout affecting his ankles and knees, obstructive sleep apnea, lumbosacral degenerative discogenic disease, hypertension, eczema, left occipital neuralgia, plantar fasciitis of the left heel, osteoarthritis of the left first metatarsophalangeal joint, right thumb residual fracture fragmentation, internal hemorrhoids, and status post neoplasm excisions of the large intestine, are found to be so severe that they prevent him from securing or following substantially gainful employment. The Board grants a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU).

The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.