The Board has granted service connection for migraines, including migraine variants (claimed as headaches), but denied service connection for nontoxic multi-nodular goiter.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found that the Veteran's migraines were more likely than not secondary to his service-connected bilateral tinnitus disability.
- Claimed conditions
- nontoxic multi-nodular goiter, migraines (including migraine variants)
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 5, 2026
- Citation
- A26000237
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Dismissed
The Board dismissed the claim for service connection for migraines as an improper concurrent election.
- Denied
The Veteran's claims for increased disability evaluations and earlier effective dates for service connection were denied. The maximum schedular rating available for tinnitus is 10 percent, which the Veteran already has.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss due to the absence of a current disability.,The Veteran's claims for service connection for migraines, right shoulder disability, and right knee disability are remanded as the VA examinations did not adequately address the lay statements regarding continuous symptoms since service.
- Granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran's headaches are at least as likely as not caused by his service-connected traumatic brain injury, and thus grants service connection for this condition.
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