The Board granted an initial 80 percent disability rating for the Veteran's service-connected narcolepsy without cataplexy.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's narcolepsy has manifested as excessive daytime sleepiness, daily sleep attacks, sleep paralysis, and sleep onset/offset hallucinations, which most nearly approximates more than 10 minor seizures weekly; a major seizure characterized by generalized tonic-clonic convulsion with unconsciousness has not been shown at any point during the appeal.
- Claimed conditions
- narcolepsy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 80%
- Decision date
- October 23, 2025
- Citation
- A25091972
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