Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for bowel incontinence, finding no evidence that it was caused or aggravated by his service-connected hemorrhoids.
The deciding factor: The January 2025 VA examiner concluded that the Veteran's bowel incontinence is less likely than not a complication of his service-connected hemorrhoids, as hemorrhoids do not cause sphincter dysfunction or impairment in bowel control.
- Claimed conditions
- Bowel incontinence
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 11, 2025
- Citation
- 25014810
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