The Board remands the claims for service connection for fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), bilateral upper extremity peripheral neuropathy, and bilateral lower extremity peripheral neuropathy as further development is needed.
The deciding factor: Further development is necessary to determine whether the Veteran has current diagnoses of fibromyalgia and CFS that may be presumptively related to his service in Southwest Asia, and to determine if the claimed BUE and BLE peripheral neuropathies are caused or aggravated by the Veteran's service-connected cervical strain and degenerative arthritis of the thoracolumbar spine, respectively.
- Claimed conditions
- fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), bilateral upper extremity (BUE) peripheral neuropathy, claimed as secondary to service-connected cervical strain, bilateral lower extremity (BLE) peripheral neuropathy, claimed as secondary to service-connected degenerative arthritis of the thoracolumbar spine
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 4, 2025
- Citation
- A25010128
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