The Board remands the claim for service connection of migraines, including migraine variants, to obtain an addendum opinion addressing whether the Veteran's migraines are caused by or aggravated by his service-connected adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood.
The deciding factor: The VA medical opinion provided is inadequate as it did not address whether the Veteran's headaches are aggravated by his service-connected psychiatric disorder.
- Claimed conditions
- migraine, including migraine variants
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 12, 2025
- Citation
- A25022958
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,861 · Granted: 27% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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.
- Denied
The Board denied a rating in excess of 50 percent for migraine, including migraine variants, associated with TBI with vertigo as the Veteran already has the maximum schedular disability rating.
- Granted
The Board granted a 50 percent rating for headaches, finding that the Veteran's symptoms were very frequent prostrating and prolonged attacks productive of severe economic inadaptability.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for migraine, including migraine variants.
- Dismissed
The Veteran withdrew the appeal for service connection for mid back and low back pain and migraine, including migraine variants.
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