Migraines & headaches Board decisions

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

The Board remands the claim for a more adequate medical opinion regarding secondary service connection of the Veteran's migraine disability.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for chronic headaches, including migraines, and left and right knee disabilities due to a duty to assist error.

The Board denied service connection for various conditions, including an acquired psychiatric disorder, tinnitus, hypertension, a dental and oral disorder, gastroesophageal reflux disease, headaches, a lumbar spine disorder, a cervical spine disorder, right ankle disorder, left ankle disorder, right wrist disorder, and left wrist disorder.

The Board granted a 30 percent disability rating for migraines and denied an earlier effective date for the award of service connection for chronic bronchitis, while remanding several other claims.

The Board remands the claims for an increased rating and TDIU due to service-connected PTSD, panic disorder without agoraphobia, and TBI, as well as a claim for hearing loss.

The Board granted service connection for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and increased the rating for a left ankle disability to 20 percent, while denying service connection for scarring of the face and neck, papules of the face and neck, traumatic brain injury, obesity, and migraine headaches.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for generalized anxiety disorder, insomnia disorder, mild neurocognitive disorder with residuals of a TBI and migraine headaches.

The Board remands all service connection claims for further development and to correct a pre-decisional duty to assist error.

The Veteran withdrew the appeals for service connection for migraine headache disorder and fibromyalgia.

The Veteran withdrew his appeal for an increased rating for migraines, and the Board dismissed the claim.

The Board denied service connection for a headache condition and remanded claims for other conditions including right hand, left hand, lower back, right ankle, right foot, left foot, hypertension, and an acquired psychiatric disorder.

The Board granted service connection for a headache disability as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), resolving doubt in favor of the Veteran.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for earlier effective dates for service connection of a headache disability and residuals of traumatic brain injury (TBI) disability.

The Board denied service connection for migraine headaches as the evidence did not support a finding that the Veteran's current disability was related to her active military service.

The Board dismissed the veteran's appeal for service connection for various conditions due to a failure to file a timely notice of disagreement with an AOJ decision from January 2019.

The appeal for the issues of service connection for various conditions and TDIU was dismissed due to the lack of new and relevant evidence within one year of the final legacy rating decisions.

The Board denied an effective date prior to July 20, 2022 for the grant of service connection for migraines and a rating in excess of 30 percent for migraines.

The Board granted readjudication of the claim for a right foot disability and denied claims for service connection for headache disorder, erectile dysfunction, diabetes, gout, hypertension, heart disability, right hip disability, left hip disability, peripheral arterial disease, back disability, bilateral hearing loss, tinnitus, and remanded several other claims.

The Board remands the claim for service connection for a headache disability to correct duty to assist errors and obtain a VA examination with an opinion.