Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for peripheral neuropathy of both upper and lower extremities, finding no evidence that these conditions were incurred in or aggravated by service.
The deciding factor: The absence of symptoms during service and the opinion from a medical examiner that the Veteran's idiopathic peripheral neuropathy was not related to service outweighed the veteran's lay statements regarding onset of symptoms.
- Claimed conditions
- Peripheral neuropathy of the left upper extremity, Peripheral neuropathy of the right upper extremity, Peripheral neuropathy of the left lower extremity, Peripheral neuropathy of the right lower extremity
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 23, 2025
- Citation
- 25013238
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