The Board granted service connection for GI disability to include GERD, esophagitis, erosive gastritis including heartburn, and duodenitis, as well as headache disability diagnosed as migraine including migraine variants.
The deciding factor: The evidence is at least approximately balanced as to whether the Veteran's GI disability had its onset during his active-duty service, and the reasonable doubt created by this approximate balance in the evidence must be resolved in favor of the Veteran. Similarly, the evidence is at least approximately balanced as to whether the Veteran's headache disability had its onset during his active-duty service.
- Claimed conditions
- GI disability to include GERD, esophagitis, erosive gastritis including heartburn, and duodenitis, headache disability diagnosed as migraine including migraine variants
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 12, 2025
- Citation
- A25097956
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