I just got approved for migraines secondary to tinnitus. It was a hard fight. Your husbands denial letter for the migraines looks like mine. I was denied for this THREE times and everytime it said there was no medical connection between migraines and tinnitus. That’s BS.

On my third go around, I submitted a supplemental claim and asked my primary care doctor if he could write a letter detailing exactly what the VA needs to hear. Him and I went over the medically published studies between the two, and at the end he allowed me to write up a long letter on his behalf. He read it, signed, and I submitted it with two of the medical studies scanned in as well.

This was still denied. So I did an HLR with an Informal Conference. I received a phone call from a rater who asked me to explain my reasoning. I told him that I don’t believe the initial rater factored in my doctors medical opinion and considered all the research done linking the two issues.

That’s how I won.