The Board denied an initial rating in excess of 30 percent for chronic headaches and denied staged initial ratings for GERD, rated 10 percent prior to August 10, 2022, and rated as 30 percent, with irritable bowel syndrome, from August 10, 2022.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not show the Veteran's chronic headaches manifested in very frequent completely prostrating and prolonged attacks productive of severe economic inadaptability or that his GERD, with irritable bowel syndrome, more nearly approximated a combination of symptoms productive of severe impairment of health during the relevant periods.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic headaches, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 19, 2025
- Citation
- A25100368
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