Citation Nr: 18112265
Decision Date: 06/19/18	Archive Date: 06/19/18

DOCKET NO. 15-14 861
DATE:	June 19, 2018
REMANDED
Entitlement to disability rating higher than 30 percent for migraine headaches is remanded.
REASONS FOR REMAND
Disability rating higher than 30 percent for migraine headaches
The Board is remanding the case for additional medical history. The Veteran contends that his migraine headaches warrant a 50 percent rating. The VA rating schedule provides for a 30 percent rating for migraine headaches with characteristic prostrating attacks occurring on an average once a month over the last several months. A 50 percent rating is assigned with very frequent completely prostrating and prolonged attacks productive of severe economic inadaptability. 38 C.F.R. § 4.124a, Diagnostic Code 8100. On the reports of VA examinations in November 2013 and February 2016, it is noted that he has prostrating migraine headaches once a month. In the Veteran’s notice of disagreement and substantive appeal, however, he reported that headache logs he has kept reflect headaches that cause him to miss work one to three times per month. Such information is relevant to the criteria for a rating higher than 30 percent. On remand, the Veteran should be provided an opportunity to submit his logs.

The matter is REMANDED for the following action:
1. Provide the Veteran an opportunity to submit logs of headaches that he reports having kept. Inform him that information from 2012 forward is most relevant to his increased rating claim.
2. The Veteran should be afforded another VA examination to determine the nature and severity of his headaches.  The examiner is asked to solicit information regarding the duration and frequency of the headaches from the Veteran. 
3. Thereafter perform any other development deemed warranted. Then review the expanded claims file and review the remanded claim. If that claim is not granted to the Veteran’s satisfaction, issue a supplemental statement of the case and afford the Veteran and his representative an opportunity to respond. Then return the case to the Board for appellate review, if otherwise in order.
 
K. PARAKKAL
Veterans Law Judge
Board of Veterans’ Appeals
ATTORNEY FOR THE BOARD	K. J. Kunz, Counsel