Difficulty achieving or maintaining an erection sufficient for sexual activity.
Because the only rating under this code is 0%, the evidence needed is that which establishes the diagnosis and its connection to your service, rather than evidence showing a higher level of severity. Medical records confirming a diagnosis of erectile dysfunction, or documenting penile scarring or deformity from disease or traumatic injury, are the core of what supports a claim under diagnostic code 7522.
Records that show how and when the condition began, such as treatment notes, imaging, or surgical reports, help connect it to a service-related event or illness. A physician's statement describing the nature and extent of any scarring or deformity can also be useful. Because this condition may open the door to special monthly compensation based on loss or loss of use of a creative organ, statements from treating providers addressing functional loss carry particular weight beyond the 0% rating itself.
Conditions that are often caused or made worse by this one. If you have any of these, they may be claimable as secondary service connection.
