The Veteran's claim for a nervous disorder, including anxiety and depression as secondary to migraine headaches, has been reopened. The Board finds that the Veteran is entitled to a rating of 50 percent for his migraine headaches throughout the course of the appeal due to very frequent, completely prostrating, and prolonged attacks productive of severe economic inadaptability.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's testimony and medical records demonstrate very frequent, completely prostrating, and prolonged migraine headaches that have caused significant functional impairment.
- Claimed conditions
- Acquired Psychiatric Disorder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- July 26, 2010
- Citation
- 1027813
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