Headaches

[rdnkjeeper]

What is the rating criteria for headaches? I can't seem to find it.

Thanks

[JT24usn]

 

Miscellaneous Diseases

​Rating

 

8100 ​Migraine:

 

​With very frequent completely prostrating and prolonged attacks

​productive of severe economic inadaptability​50

​With characteristic prostrating attacks occurring on an average once

​a month over last several months................................................​30

​With characteristic prostrating attacks averaging one in 2 months over

​last several months​10

​  With less frequent attacks​0

 

[carlie]

What is the rating criteria for headaches? I can't seem to find it.

Thanks

http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid=f13de75ff29221910730726eec3c385c&rgn=div8&view=text&node=38:1.0.1.1.5.2.110.67&idno=38

8100 Migraine:

With very frequent completely prostrating and prolonged attacks productive of severe economic inadaptability50

With characteristic prostrating attacks occurring on an average once a month over last several months30

With characteristic prostrating attacks averaging one in 2 months over last several months10

With less frequent attacks0

[rdnkjeeper]

Thank you!

[SonnyBurnett]

I think there is also a rating for "pseudo tumor cerebri" which also causes headaches. I was diagnosed with it, but unable to prove service connection...yet. Diagnosed with this 3 months after service connected spinal surgery/fusion.

[Hoppy]

Sonny,

Are you sure you were not having Cervigenetic headaches. Are you sure they cannot be secondary to your neck injury. Just becuse they started post surgically does not mean the surgery caused the headaches. Continued degradation of the original injury could have been the cause of the hedaches. I have these andit took the VA three years to make the diagnosis. The reason was I was being seen by doctors who did not want to make the diagnosis. Eventually, I saw a doctor in rehab medicine who was really pissed that I was getting the run around for years with undiagnosed headaches.

http://www.ehow.com/...c-headache.html

A cervicogenic headache is a headache that is caused from a problem in the spine. According to the Chicago Institute of Neurosurgery and Neuroresearch (CINN), causes of cervicogenic headache vary from illness such as arthritis or an injury such as cervical sprain (whiplash). This can be a particularly incapacitating type of headache.

These can be service connected. Read the cases below by clicking on the links. The second case shows how they are rated.

http://www.va.gov/ve...es3/1123537.txt

http://www.va.gov/ve...es1/1108907.txt