Erectile dysfunction — all decisions

The Board denied the Veteran's claim for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) due to his service-connected disabilities, including prostate cancer residuals, hearing loss, tinnitus, and erectile dysfunction.

The Board denied the Veteran's claims for a temporary total rating based on convalescence and entitlement to specially adapted housing, as he was not service-connected for a lumbar spine disability at the time of his spinal laminectomy in December 2019, and there is no evidence of loss or loss of use of any extremities that would preclude locomotion without the aid of braces, crutches, canes, or a wheelchair.

The Board granted a 40 percent rating for lumbar degenerative disc disease but denied an initial compensable rating for erectile dysfunction and service connection for generalized anxiety disorder.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for prostate cancer, special monthly compensation based on aid and attendance, service connection for erectile dysfunction as secondary to prostate cancer, and special monthly compensation under 38 U.S.C. § 1114(k) due to loss of use of a creative organ.

The Board granted service connection for benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH), erectile dysfunction, and urge incontinence based on the Veteran's in-service toxic exposure risk activity.

The Board granted an effective date of August 30, 2016, for the award of a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) and basic eligibility to Dependents' Educational Assistance (DEA) based on permanent and total disability status.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for earlier effective dates and higher ratings, except for restoring a 30 percent disability rating for right knee strain and a 20 percent disability rating for left knee strain.

The Board denied the Veteran's claim for a total disability rating due to individual unemployability (TDIU) from June 4, 2022, to October 2, 2025, as his service-connected disabilities did not render him unable to secure or follow substantially gainful employment.

The Board granted service connection for erectile dysfunction and denied service connection for migraines, GERD, IBS, and hypertension.

The appeal was dismissed due to the Veteran's death during its pendency.

The Board granted a 70 percent rating for PTSD with unspecified depressive disorder, panic disorder, and excoriation disorder with alcohol use disorder but denied other claims including erectile dysfunction, chronic sinusitis, allergic rhinitis, dermatitis, GERD, OSA, CFS, and IBS.

The Board granted service connection for cervical strain, left and right hip disabilities (post-traumatic arthritis), erectile dysfunction, and SMC based on loss of use of a creative organ with an effective date of September 28, 2012. Other claims were denied.

The Board remands the claim for an addendum opinion to properly address secondary service connection pursuant to Spicer v. McDonough, 61 F.4th 1360 (Fed. Cir. 2023).

The Board granted service connection for frequent urination, to include as secondary to the Veteran's hypertension, but denied service connection for PTSD and a compensable rating for erectile dysfunction.

The Board granted effective dates of May 19, 2022, for the assignment of a 30 percent evaluation for pseudofolliculitis barbae and for the grant of a total disability evaluation based upon individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities (TDIU), and July 16, 2020, for the grant of service connection for major depressive disorder.

The Board granted service connection for erectile dysfunction (ED) as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

The Board granted a 100 percent rating for depressive disorder with major depressive like episodes and anxious distress, effective from October 21, 2022.

The veteran's appeal requests were not timely filed, and good cause was not shown to accept the late filings.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings and service connection, finding that the evidence did not support a compensable rating or service connection for any of the conditions appealed.

The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for erectile dysfunction as there was no evidence of a current disability.