The Board has granted service connection for PTSD with anxiety and depression. The veteran's current diagnoses of a stomach disorder and migraine and cluster headaches are related to his service-connected PTSD.
The deciding factor: PTSD was incurred in service due to combat-related stressors, and the veteran's symptoms of anxiety and depression are secondary to PTSD.
- Claimed conditions
- PTSD with anxiety and depression, stomach disorder, migraine and cluster headaches
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 26, 2007
- Citation
- 0708800
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Veteran's stomach disorder is denied as there is no evidence of a service connection. However, the Veteran's bilateral hearing loss is granted as it is related to his military service.
- Granted
The Veteran's service connection claims for various conditions are granted, except for stomach disorder, erectile dysfunction, neck disorder, migraine headaches, bilateral pes planus, acquired psychiatric disorder (anxiety), back disability, and hemorrhoids.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for a stomach disorder, finding that the evidence does not support a current disability related to active service or complaints therein.
- Partly granted
The Board denied earlier effective dates for service connection and initial ratings for migraine and cluster headaches, tinnitus, and bilateral hearing loss, but granted an earlier effective date of April 9, 2018, for the grant of service connection for bilateral hearing loss.
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