BVA Decisions on Fibromyalgia

10 real veterans-appeals decisions on VA disability claims involving fibromyalgia — Board of Veterans' Appeals decisions and U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (CAVC) decisions, each labeled with its court. Each links to the full decision, reasoning, and citations.

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• CAVCCase 15-3657 — Remanded / Vacated / Reversed / Affirmed 2015-05-28
  Finally,the Board denied effective dates earlier than March 5,2009,for the grants of service connection for right ear hearing loss and tinnitus....
• CAVCCase 21-7788 — Vacated / Remanded 2021-08-13
  The RO also denied the petition to reopen the claim for service connection for chronic fatigue syndrome and explained that the evidence submitted in connection with the current cla...
• CAVCCase 18-4571 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed 1992-08-24
  The Board also determined that new and material evidence had not been received and therefore declined to reopen previously denied claims for benefits for right ear hearing loss and...
• CAVCCase 22-7345 — Vacated / Remanded 2022-11-03
  The examiner opined that the veteran's sleep apnea was not related to any type of [G]ulf [W]ar exposure event and that the condition was more likely caused by obesity....
• CAVCCase 21-1135 — Reversed 2021-01-07
  The Board noted that the August 2019 examiner considered the [v]eteran's contentions that he injured his neck while in service and that he still had symptoms....
• CAVCCase 09-1145 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded 2007-06-27
  Service-Connection Claims Establishing service connection generally requires (1)medical evidence of a current disability;(2)medical or,in certain circumstances, lay evidence of inc...
• CAVCCase 08-0404 — Affirmed 2008-01-09
  393 (1998), the Board determined that medical evidence of a nexus between PTSD and the claimed stressor alone is insufficient to establish that the claimed inservice stressor actua...
• CAVCCase 23-3526 — Unknown 2024-09-25
  at 32,398-405,and in a June 2020 decision,the Board denied a disability rating higher than 10% for tinnitus,R....
• BVACase 23029996 — Remanded 2023-05-23
  The additional documentation submitted since the September 2009 rating decision is new and material and raises a reasonable possibility of substantiating the Veteran's claim of ser...
• CAVCCase 23-0642 — Vacated / Remanded 2022-12-23
  The Court remands these matters because the Board providedan inadequate statement of reasons or bases for denying service connection for the veteran's lumbar and cervical spine dis...