The Board has granted service connection for headaches/migraines, depressive disorder with anxious distress and alcohol use disorder features (to include as secondary to service-connected degenerative joint disease of the thoracolumbar spine), and denied service connection for insomnia.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's current diagnoses are supported by competent medical evidence, and his claims were granted based on secondary service connection due to his service-connected conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- headaches/migraines, depressive disorder with anxious distress and alcohol use disorder features, insomnia
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 23, 2018
- Citation
- 18144113
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
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- Denied
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- Denied
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- Granted
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