Granted
The Board granted service connection for the Veteran's migraine headaches as secondary to his service-connected PTSD, resolving reasonable doubt in favor of the Veteran.
The deciding factor: The private medical opinions from June 2022 and May 2023 are based on accurate characterizations of the evidence of record and relevant medical literature available, indicating that the Veteran's PTSD aggravates his headache disorder by triggering or worsening at least some of the attacks.
- Claimed conditions
- migraine headaches
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 16, 2025
- Citation
- A25108475
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