The Veteran's chronic migraine headaches are found to be secondary to his service-connected maxillary and ethmoid sinusitis.,His bilateral feet onychomycosis with history of left great toe subungual fungal infection is rated at zero percent due to the lack of affected body or exposed areas.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's headaches are found to be secondary to his service-connected maxillary and ethmoid sinusitis.,There was no evidence showing that the Veteran had a toenail fungus during service, nor did he have any systemic therapy for it in the past year.
- Claimed conditions
- {"condition_name":"chronic migraine headaches","related_condition":"service-connected maxillary and ethmoid sinusitis"}, {"condition_name":"bilateral feet onychomycosis with history of left great toe subungual fungal infection","related_condition":null}, {"condition_name":"right knee recurrent lateral instability","related_condition":null}, {"condition_name":"left knee recurrent lateral instability","related_condition":null}
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 20, 2019
- Citation
- 19163732
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What this means for you
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