The Board has granted service connection for chronic migraines, finding that the Veteran's headaches began during his military service and have continued since then. The decision is based on the Veteran's credible lay statements of symptoms from active duty.
The deciding factor: The Board found the Veteran's credible lay statements regarding the onset and continuity of his migraine headaches during service to be sufficient evidence for granting service connection, despite a VA examiner's opinion that there was no causal relationship between the MVA and the migraines.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic migraines
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 5, 2020
- Citation
- 20071720
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.
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