The Board has granted the Veteran's claim for service connection for headache disorder. The right eye vision impairment issue was dismissed as withdrawn during a hearing.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's headaches, diagnosed as a migraine variant, were found to be related to his in-service parasitic infection and are presumed to have been incurred in service.
- Claimed conditions
- headache disorder (migraine variant), right eye vision impairment
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 13, 2019
- Citation
- 19111610
Veterans Law Judge
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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