Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the Veteran's claim for service connection for migraine headaches, to include as secondary to service connected tinnitus, for an etiology opinion that addresses whether the Veteran's service connected tinnitus aggravates his migraine headaches and whether the Veteran's migraine headaches are caused by toxic exposure risk activities.
The deciding factor: The December 2024 VA etiology opinion is incomplete because it does not address secondary aggravation or potential causes related to toxic exposures during active service.
- 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 23, 2025
- Citation
- A25110263
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