Migraines & headaches Board decisions

The Veteran's migraine headache symptoms have been manifested by frequent, completely prostrating and prolonged attacks productive of severe economic inadaptability. The Board has determined that a 50 percent rating for headaches is warranted.

The Board has determined that the Veteran's lumbar spine DDD with hyperlordosis, scoliosis, and retrolisthesis is related to service. The skin disability and headaches are currently under consideration.

The Board has determined that the Veteran's spine disability, headaches, and tinnitus are service-connected. The skin condition claim is remanded for further development.

The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for the purpose of obtaining additional VA treatment records and Social Security Administration (SSA) records. The claims will be readjudicated based on all available evidence.

The Board has granted service connection for PTSD and TBI with headaches, but the rating assigned is not specified. The effective date of the grant of service connection is also not provided.

The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for additional development, including obtaining service treatment records and scheduling VA examinations to assess her disabilities.

The Veteran's appeal for a disability rating in excess of 30 percent prior to July 27, 2012 for PTSD with depressive disorder NOS and her TDIU claim were both denied as she was not unemployable due to her service-connected disabilities.

The Veteran's PTSD is shown to have developed as a result of traumatic events in service including his fear of hostile military activity, and the Board finds that service connection for PTSD is warranted.

The Board finds that the Veteran did not suffer a concussion or headaches as a result of her May 2005 fall at a VA medical facility. Therefore, she is not entitled to compensation under 38 U.S.C.A. § 1151 for residuals of a concussion and headaches.

The Board has remanded the case for additional development due to missing or outdated medical records and an addendum opinion considering new evidence.

The Veteran's claims are being remanded for further development, including obtaining SSA records and addressing the request to reopen a claim for service connection for erectile dysfunction (ED) as secondary to migraine headaches.

The Board has determined that the appellant's claimed conditions, including headaches, hearing loss, tinnitus, lumbar spine disorder, and umbilical hernia, are not related to his military service. The evidence does not support a finding of service connection for any of these conditions.

The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for additional development, including obtaining medical opinions and examinations to address the current severity of his service-connected disabilities and any new evidence submitted since the last examination.

The Veteran's claims for higher initial evaluations of hypertension and tension headaches, as well as service connection for radiculopathy of the right and left lower extremities, were denied. The Board found that his hypertension did not warrant a rating in excess of 10 percent, and his tension headaches did not meet criteria for a 50 percent evaluation.

The Board has remanded the case for further consideration due to a lack of adequate consideration of whether VA examination was required and for obtaining Social Security Administration records. The Veteran's claims for service connection for headaches, coronary artery disease (CAD), hypertension, and diabetes mellitus, type II are being reviewed.

The Veteran's service connection claims for residuals of a right ankle sprain, left hip sciatica, and migraine headaches have been granted.

The Veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for service connection of residuals of traumatic brain injury with migraine headaches was denied as there was no clear and unmistakable error in the July 1999 rating decision, which is final.

The Veteran's claim for service connection for residuals of a head injury, including headache, is denied as there are no current disabilities related to his in-service head injury.

The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including migraines, digestive disorder, intervertebral disc syndrome of the left lower extremity, chronic sinusitis, digestive disorder (impaired sphincter control), lumbar strain with degenerative joint disease and intervertebral disc syndrome, and hemorrhoids, met the percentage requirements for a TDIU from February 27, 2012 to December 10, 2014.

The Board has reopened the Veteran's claims for service connection for a bilateral foot/toenail disability and a headache disability. The Veteran's current complaints of these conditions, along with his in-service symptoms and continuity of symptomatology since service, raise a reasonable possibility that they may be related to service.