An effective date of June 18, 2018, but no earlier, for the grant of a 50 percent rating for migraine headaches is granted. Ratings in excess of 10 percent prior to March 4, 2020, for left and right knee disorders are denied.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's migraine headaches were characterized by numerous daily headaches, use of an occipital nerve block, multiple medications, treatment from a pain clinic and a neurologist, and 1 to 2 headache attacks per week that lasted 1 to 2 hours per episode and required him to lay in a quiet, dark room. The effective date is fixed based on the earliest date of which it is factually ascertainable that an increase in disability had occurred.
- Claimed conditions
- Migraine headaches, Left knee disorder to include chondromalacia of the patellofemoral joint, Right knee disorder to include chondromalacia of the patellofemoral joint
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- August 8, 2024
- Citation
- A24044929
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- Dismissed
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- Granted
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