The Veteran's appeal includes requests for service connection for various conditions, including throat pain and indigestion, GERD with hiatal hernia, IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome), joint pain, joint swelling, neck pain, muscle cramps, dizziness and lightheadedness, cold symptoms, cold toes, abdominal pain, white patches on skin, rashes and hives, and hypersomnolence. These requests are being remanded for further review.,The Veteran's appeal also includes a request for an increased rating for migraine headaches, which has been granted with a 50 percent rating.
The deciding factor: The appeals include various service connection claims and one request for an increased rating for migraine headaches. The requests are being remanded as the evidence is insufficient to make a determination on these issues.
- Claimed conditions
- migraine headaches, throat pain and indigestion, GERD with hiatal hernia, IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome), joint pain, joint swelling, neck pain, muscle cramps, dizziness and lightheadedness, cold symptoms, cold toes, abdominal pain, white patches on skin, rashes and hives, hypersomnolence (excessive sleepiness)
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 6, 2024
- Citation
- 24010745
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for bilateral hearing loss, migraine headaches, and PTSD due to additional development of records and examination.
- Partly granted
The Board has not made a final determination on the claims of service connection for inguinal hernia, PTSD, joint pain, fibromyalgia, left knee disability, right knee disability, tinnitus, chronic fatigue syndrome, respiratory disability, sleep disorder, IBS, and headaches. The claims are remanded to obtain additional evidence and determine if these conditions are related to service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the cases for additional development due to incomplete medical records and insufficient opinions regarding the relationship between service, including a stick injury in England, and current left eye disability (including amblyopia and cataracts) as well as migraine headaches.
- Granted
The Veteran's migraine headaches are productive of very frequent, completely prostrating and prolonged attacks capable of producing severe economic inadaptability. The Board has granted a 50 percent disability rating for the Veteran's service-connected migraine headaches.
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