The A - Z Guide: Veterans VA Disability Benefits
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Erectile Dysfunction
Veterans With Prostate Cancer and Other Conditions Causing
Disabling Loss of Function of a Creative Organ
Veterans With Prostate Cancer and Other Conditions Causing
Disabling Loss of Function of a Creative Organ
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The term "ED" wasn't popularized until that little blue pill came along. Suddenly it was OK for a man to speak openly of erectile dysfunction and impotence.
There are many causes and contributing factors to ED, almost all of them may be somehow service connected.
You may suffer a degree of ED if you're a have any degree of diabetes. If you're diabetes is service connected (because of Vietnam service for example), the ED condition should be rated as secondary to the primary service connected condition.
Erectile dysfunction or impotence is referred to as "loss of a creative organ" in the rules that apply to the condition. No doubt the verbiage addressing loss of a creative organ was first meant to cover such events as a gunshot or other wounding to a man's penis or testicles or any part of a woman's reproductive organs.
Over time it's been recognized that "loss" may also refer to function as well as the physical loss.
ED is rated as a Special Monthly Compensation above and beyond any other ratings you may have. The rating will be SMC-k and will compensate you at about $100.00 per month.
Often enough, even though ED may be noted or implied, you'll have to ask for it.
ED may also be service connected as a secondary condition to such things as side effects of medications taken for SC conditions or other physical and mental conditions.
Also read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erectile_dysfunction