The Board finds that the evidence is at least in equipoise as to whether the Veteran's vertigo is related to service or his service-connected hearing loss, and therefore grants service connection for benign paroxysmal positional vertigo.
The deciding factor: The November 2008 VA examiner provided an opinion stating that the Veteran's dizziness could be caused by hearing loss-related nerve damage, which is at odds with the October 2008 opinion. The Board finds this opinion credible and grants service connection for benign paroxysmal positional vertigo.
- Claimed conditions
- Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 6, 2016
- Citation
- 1618266
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