The Board granted an initial evaluation of 50 percent for migraine headaches but dismissed the appeal for service connection for dry eye syndrome, left eye and denied restoration of a 10 percent rating for status post right eye sub retinal hemorrhage injury with papillary sphincter rupture.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's migraines were found to be very frequent, completely prostrating, and prolonged, resulting in severe economic inadaptability, which met the criteria for a 50 percent rating under DC 8100. The appeal for dry eye syndrome was dismissed as premature, and the reduction of the right eye disability rating was upheld due to demonstrated improvement.
- Claimed conditions
- dry eye syndrome, left eye, migraine headaches, status post right eye sub retinal hemorrhage injury with papillary sphincter rupture, commotion retinae, angle recession, floater of the vitreous and bilateral lattice degeneration
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- April 29, 2025
- Citation
- A25039068
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Decisions by this judge: 857 · Granted: 35% (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
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- 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.
- 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.
- Granted
The Veteran's claim for a higher rating for his service-connected migraine headaches was granted with an effective date of February 28, 2023.
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