The Veteran's headaches are productive of disability analogous to characteristic prostrating attacks occurring on an average of once a month over the last several months, and he is entitled to a 30 percent rating for his headache syndrome.
The deciding factor: The Veteran reported frequent and severe headaches that required him to lie down during migraine episodes, meeting the criteria for a 30 percent rating under Diagnostic Code 8100.
- Claimed conditions
- Headache Syndrome
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- December 20, 2018
- Citation
- 18159800
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- Denied
The Veteran's appeal for increased ratings and effective dates has been denied. The Board found that the evidence did not support a higher rating for PTSD, allergic rhinitis, hypertension, GERD with IBS, or headaches. Effective dates were also denied for various claims.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's claims of service connection for TBI and other stressor-related disorder were dismissed due to concurrent elections.,Claims for increased ratings for laceration of the forehead, left ear hearing loss, headache syndrome, right ear hearing loss, hypothyroidism (Grave's Disease), bilateral knee conditions, and vision disorder were dismissed as untimely.
- Granted
The Veteran's service-connected headache syndrome is now rated at 50 percent effective March 12, 2020, for very frequent completely prostrating and prolonged attacks productive of severe economic inadaptability.
- Granted
The Veteran's service-connected headache syndrome was manifested by very frequent completely prostrating and prolonged attacks productive of severe economic inadaptability from October 19, 2011, to February 19, 2015. An initial rating of 50 percent has been granted for this period.
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