Migraines & headaches decisions — 2025

The Board denied an evaluation in excess of 20 percent for physiologic tremors and dismissed the appeal for an increased rating for major depressive disorder. The claims for service connection were remanded for readjudication.

The Board remands the claim for service connection for migraine headaches to correct pre-decisional duty to assist errors.

The Board denied service connection for allergic rhinitis and cardiac arrhythmia, granted a 30 percent rating for post-concussive headaches from January 24, 2022, and denied increased ratings for other conditions.

The Board granted service connection for a neck disability and an effective date of June 21, 2013, but no earlier, for the grant of service connection for migraine headaches. The initial rating in excess of 30 percent for migraine headaches was denied.

The Board granted service connection for headaches, erectile dysfunction (ED), and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected conditions.

The Board granted service connection for migraine headaches and tinnitus, readjudicated the claims for chronic fatigue syndrome and skin cancer, to include melanoma, and remanded several other claims.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for various service-connected conditions, including migraine headaches, PTSD with TBI, chronic lumbar sprain, bilateral plantar fasciitis, and scars.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, a headache disability, and obstructive sleep apnea as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected disabilities but denied earlier effective dates for increased ratings of chronic sinusitis and tinnitus.

The appeal was granted for service connection of unspecified depressive disorder and headaches, but denied for an initial disability rating in excess of 20 percent for a lumbosacral strain. Some claims were also remanded.

The Board granted an initial 50 percent rating for PTSD and service connection for tinnitus, while denying service connection for bilateral hearing loss. Other claims were remanded.

The Board granted service connection for chronic headaches and generalized anxiety disorder with alcohol use disorder, but denied service connection for persistent depressive disorder.

The Board granted an initial rating of 30 percent and a 50 percent rating for service-connected migraine including migraine variants, as well as a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) and Dependents Educational Assistance (DEA) benefits.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for tension headaches, bilateral hearing loss, and a heart condition to obtain additional medical opinions.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for tension headaches, bilateral hearing loss, and a heart condition to obtain additional medical opinions.

The Board denied higher ratings for the Veteran's radiculopathy of the right and left arms, tension headaches, and unspecified anxiety disorder.

The Board denied service connection for ischemic heart disease, hypertension, erectile dysfunction, headaches, and other conditions as the evidence did not support a finding that these disabilities were incurred in or caused by service, to include due to exposure to an herbicide agent.

The Veteran's legacy appeal for higher ratings for headaches and TDIU prior to October 9, 2020 is dismissed as moot because the claims have already been granted.

The Board granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities, while denying increased ratings for bipolar I disorder and social anxiety disorder with cued panic attacks, radiculopathy of the right lower extremity, and a compensable rating for cervicogenic headaches.

The Board granted readjudication of the issue of whether the Appellant's character of discharge is a bar to entitlement to VA benefits, exclusive of health care and related benefits authorized under Chapter 17, Title 38, United States Code. The other issues were remanded for further development.

The Board granted an initial 50 percent rating for migraine headaches based on the Veteran's symptoms of very frequent completely prostrating and prolonged attacks productive of severe economic inadaptability.