The Veteran's claim for service connection for a disorder manifested by shakiness, twitches, tics, and other seizure-type symptoms, claimed as secondary to medications taken for his service-connected PTSD, is granted due to the Veteran providing competent and credible evidence of these symptoms and a VA expert opining that they are likely related to his psychiatric medications.
The deciding factor: The Veteran provided competent and credible evidence of his symptoms and a VA medical opinion linked them to his psychiatric medications prescribed for his service-connected PTSD.
- Claimed conditions
- shakiness, twitches, tics, seizure-type symptoms
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 8, 2022
- Citation
- 22051174
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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.
What you can do next
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