The Board remands the claims for further development, including obtaining relevant VA treatment records and a supplemental medical opinion to address the severity of the Veteran's peripheral neuropathy without considering medication effects.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary due to outstanding evidence and an inadequate prior examination that did not consider all symptomology associated with the Veteran's peripheral neuropathy.
- Claimed conditions
- right upper extremity peripheral neuropathy associated with diabetes mellitus, type II, left upper extremity peripheral neuropathy associated with diabetes mellitus, type II, right lower extremity peripheral neuropathy (sciatic nerve) associated with diabetes mellitus, type II, left lower extremity peripheral neuropathy (sciatic nerve) associated with diabetes mellitus, type II, right lower extremity peripheral neuropathy (femoral nerve) associated with diabetes mellitus, type II, left lower extremity peripheral neuropathy (femoral nerve) associated with diabetes mellitus, type II
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 19, 2025
- Citation
- A25109695
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,240 · Granted: 28% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
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