Migraines & headaches decisions — 2025

The Board granted service connection for hypertension and right knee meniscal tear and medial collateral ligament tear with degenerative arthritis, but remanded the claims for a headache disorder and sleep apnea (OSA) due to inadequate medical opinions.

The Board remands all service connection issues and entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) for further development.

The Board granted service connection for headaches and a separate 10 percent evaluation for left knee pain with limitation of flexion, while denying service connection for left wrist disability, right wrist disability, allergic rhinitis, LUE ventral scar, and left knee pain with limitation of extension.

The Board granted an initial 70 percent rating for major depressive disorder, effective April 25, 2016, and denied an earlier effective date for the grant of service connection for migraines.

The Board denied a compensable rating for headaches and remanded the claim for service connection for penile disorder (erectile dysfunction).

The Board granted service connection for chest pain secondary to unspecified depressive disorder and anxiety disorder, but remanded the claim for headaches due to an inadequate VA examination.

The Board denied service connection for tinnitus, but remanded the claims for bilateral elbow disorders, a psychiatric disorder, and a migraine disorder.

The Board denied the Veteran's claims for increased ratings for migraine headaches, degenerative disc disease with intervertebral disc syndrome (lumbar spine), and cervical spine hyperextension trauma. However, it granted a 20 percent rating for left lower extremity radiculopathy.

The Board granted readjudication of the claim for service connection for migraines based on new and relevant evidence, but remanded the issue to obtain an adequate medical opinion.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability and headaches, finding that the evidence supports a link to the Veteran's service-connected conditions.

The Board granted service connection for migraine headaches, finding that the condition is related to the Veteran's service-connected hypertension.

The Board remands the matter for an addendum opinion addressing whether the Veteran's migraine headaches were aggravated by his service-connected PTSD with major depressive disorder and alcohol use disorder.

The Board granted service connection for migraine headaches, secondary to the Veteran's service-connected tinnitus.

The appeal was granted for service connection of a back disability, an effective date of April 24, 2023, for hypertension and post-traumatic headaches ratings, and TDIU. The claims for increased ratings were denied.

The Veteran withdrew her appeals for service connection for IBS, a headache disability, GERD, a sleep disorder, and urinary incontinence.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for migraines as secondary to tinnitus and/or sinusitis, and based on toxic exposure risk activity (TERA), due to inadequate VA examinations.

The Board granted service connection for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and granted an initial separate and compensable disability rating of 10 percent, and no higher, for vertigo secondary to tinnitus. Other claims were denied.

The Board remands the claim for a new examination to address the Veteran's lay statements and determine if there is a nexus between his headaches and service, including toxic exposures at Camp Lejeune.

The Board granted service connection for migraines based on the presumption of continuity of symptomatology since separation from service.

The Board remands the claim for service connection of migraine headaches due to pre-decisional duty to assist errors and a need for an adequate medical opinion.