The Board granted service connection for skin disease and bladder disease, finding that both conditions were caused by multiple service-connected disabilities including migraines, fibromyalgia, PTSD, and IBS.
The deciding factor: The evidence of record is sufficient to grant service connection based on secondary causation by the Veteran's multiple service-connected disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- skin disease, to include a rash and pruritic (itchy) skin from eczema, dermatitis, acne, folliculitis, ringworm (dermatophytosis), lipomas, and moles (nevi), bladder disease, to include interstitial cystitis with voiding dysfunction, irritable bladder, and overactive bladder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 13, 2025
- Citation
- A25052296
What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
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- Remanded (sent back)
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