The Veteran's headache disability, including migraine and migraine variants, is granted as secondary to residuals of his service-connected cataract repair surgery. The Board also grants the Veteran's claims for service connection for choroidal nevus of the right eye, conjunctivitis disability (to include herpes keratitis), ptosis, and dry eye.
The deciding factor: The evidence is at least in equipoise that the Veteran's current headache disability, to include migraine and migraine variants, is proximately due to residuals of his service-connected cataract repair surgery.
- Claimed conditions
- Headache disability, including migraine and migraine variants, Choroidal nevus right eye, Conjunctivitis disability, to include herpes keratitis, Ptosis, Dry eye
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 26, 2021
- Citation
- 21065559
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