The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including total hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, tension headaches with migraine components, and lumbosacral strain and spinal stenosis with degenerative disc disease, prevent her from securing or following substantially gainful employment. The Board has granted TDIU for the entire appeal period.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities cause severe pain, nausea, sensitivity to light and sound, which require isolation in a dark and quiet environment, severely limiting her ability to focus and work without substantial accommodations.
- Claimed conditions
- total hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, tension headaches with migraine components, lumbosacral strain and spinal stenosis with degenerative disc disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 80%
- Decision date
- January 8, 2026
- Citation
- A26001821
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied an earlier effective date for the award of service connection for a total hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy and special monthly compensation (SMC) based on loss of use of a creative organ, as there is no legal basis to assign an earlier effective date.
- Granted
The Veteran's effective date for a 50% disability rating for total hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy is set to August 29, 2015.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has reopened the Veteran's service connection claim for polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) and total hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, but has remanded the case due to the need for an addendum opinion regarding whether PCOS is a congenital or developmental defect.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to inadequate opinions and rationale in a previous VA examination regarding the Veteran's employability.
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