A disorder affecting the coordinated muscle contractions that move food through the digestive tract.
For the 80% level, medical records showing a prescription and ongoing use of TPN or continuous tube feeding, along with provider notes confirming complete nutritional dependence, would reflect those criteria. For the 50% level, records of intermittent tube feeding orders plus emergency department or urgent care visits for intestinal obstruction, regurgitation from poor gastric emptying, abdominal pain, nausea, or vomiting would be relevant. For the 30% level, clinic notes documenting chronic symptoms such as bloating, dyspepsia, constipation, or diarrhea managed in an outpatient setting, together with prescribed dietary plans or restrictions, support that rating. For the 10% level, records showing intermittent abdominal pain and epigastric fullness with bloating, combined with imaging or other test results ruling out a structural gastrointestinal disease, correspond to that criteria. At any level, your own written statements describing how symptoms affect your daily activities, work, and eating habits can help show the frequency and severity of your condition.
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.
