The Board has denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for a headache disorder, paroxysmal positional vertigo, and skin rash due to exposure to contaminated water at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
The deciding factor: There is no medical evidence linking the Veteran’s headaches, vertigo, or skin rash to his military service. The temporal gap between any inservice complaints of these conditions and their first documented manifestations postservice tends to negate a finding of nexus for service connection based on direct service incurrence.
- Claimed conditions
- Headache disorder to include migraines, Paroxysmal positional vertigo (claimed as right ear condition and dizziness), Skin rash
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- Camp Lejeune water
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 3, 2019
- Citation
- 19167956
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