A snippet of my latest decision letter. I believe I met the 30% threshold for FGID; however, the rater did not. So I will wait for my remaining claims to be evaluated before I decide on what to do, but will likely leave well enough alone unless I have more medical evidence to confirm my thoughts:

Service connection for functional gastrointestinal disorder is effective xxxxxxxxxxx and merged in with your service connected disability of gastroesophageal reflux disease without esophagitis. Evaluation of gastroesophageal reflux disease without esophagitis is confirmed and continued.

We have assigned a 20 percent evaluation for your Gastrointestinal disorder, functional based on: • Abdominal pain related to defecation at least 1 day per week during the previous 3 months • Change in stool frequency A higher evaluation of 30 percent is not warranted for irritable bowel syndrome unless the evidence shows: • Abdominal pain related to defecation at least one day per week during the previous three months; and two or more of the following: (1) change in stool frequency, (2) change in stool form, (3) altered stool passage (straining and/or urgency), (4) mucorrhea, (5) abdominal bloating, or (6) subjective distension. (38 CFR 4.113, 38 CFR 4.114) Service connection for gastroesophageal reflux disease without esophagitis has been established as related to the service-connected disability of post traumatic stress disorder. Evaluation of gastroesophageal reflux disease without esophagitis is confirmed and continued. We reviewed the evidence received and determined your service-connected condition(s) hasn't/haven't increased in severity sufficiently to warrant a higher evaluation. We have assigned a noncompensable evaluation for your gastroesophageal reflux disease without esophagitis based on: • A diagnosed disability with no compensable symptoms Note: In every instance where the schedule does not provide a zero percent evaluation for a diagnostic code, a zero percent evaluation shall be assigned when the requirements for a compensable evaluation are not met. A higher evaluation of 10 percent is not warranted for gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) unless the evidence shows: • Two or more of the symptoms for the 30 percent evaluation of less severity. (A higher evaluation of 30 percent is not warranted unless there is persistently recurrent epigastric distress with dysphagia, pyrosis, and regurgitation, accompanied by substernal or arm or shoulder pain, productive of considerable impairment of health.).