Migraines & headaches decisions — 2025

The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection due to outstanding medical records from Ft. Eustis and other facilities, as well as a need for additional VA examination opinions.

The Board has denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for a left knee condition, right thumb arthritis, and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), migraines, and dermatitis of the bilateral elbows. The case is remanded for further development.,Service connection was not granted as there is no current diagnosis of these conditions in the record.

The Veteran's bilateral hearing loss and headaches have been granted service connection. The remaining issues of sinusitis, rhinitis, bronchitis, anemia, hysterectomy, hysterectomy surgery scars, insomnia (secondary to tinnitus), and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) (secondary to tinnitus) are remanded for further development.

The Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder is granted as service connected, and his headache disability is also granted as secondary to his service-connected tinnitus and psychiatric disorder.

The Veteran's headaches are found to be secondary to his service-connected PTSD, and the Board grants service connection for this condition.

The veteran's service-connected disabilities were found to prevent him from obtaining and maintaining substantially gainful employment, so he was granted an extraschedular total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) effective January 26, 2010.

The Board remanded the issues of an initial compensable rating for vascular headaches prior to March 23, 2020, and a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected vascular headaches alone.

The appeal for an earlier effective date for a 50 percent rating for migraine headaches due to meningitis was dismissed because the benefit sought has already been granted.

The Board denied service connection for multiple conditions but remanded the claim for psychiatric disability, including PTSD, anxiety, and depression.

The Board remanded all issues to correct errors in the duty to assist and to provide proper notice of the right to a hearing. The Veteran's claims will be reassessed with new examinations considering toxic exposure risk activity (TERA) or medically unexplained chronic multi-symptom illness (MUCMI).

The veteran's appeal for earlier effective dates was dismissed. Some rating increases were granted, some denied, and others remanded.

The veteran's appeal for service connection of migraines was dismissed because the veteran requested to withdraw the appeal.

The Board remanded all issues to correct pre-decisional duty to assist errors and to secure necessary examinations and medical opinions.

The Board granted service connection for endometriosis and a headache disorder, claimed as migraines.

The veteran is granted an initial rating of 30% for migraine headaches and 20% for cervical strain, both effective from February 8, 2021. The veteran is also granted an effective date of February 8, 2021, for service connection for right lower extremity (sciatic nerve) radiculopathy and eligibility for Dependents' Educational Assistance.

The Board dismissed the appeal because all issues were already decided in a previous decision.

The Board denied the veteran's appeal for a rating in excess of 50 percent for headaches, stating that the symptoms do not create an unusual disability picture outside the Rating Schedule.

The veteran's claim for service connection of migraine headaches has been granted. The decision is based on the relationship between the veteran's migraine headaches and their already service-connected PTSD and major depressive disorder with insomnia disorder.

The appeal for service connection of a headache disorder was dismissed because the veteran passed away before a decision could be made.

The veteran's claim for service connection for OSA is remanded due to new and relevant evidence. The claim for an increased rating for migraines is denied.