| Hi! My name is Ardy. We are from Alberta, CA. My husband was stationed in Quatar in 91. His condition is that no one wants to state as the symptoms are symptomatic or various other disorders, each with their own symptoms. Combine them all together and they result in the GWS. The doctors up here do not believe in GWS. We have a great doctor where I work which specializes in the GWS, however each and every test is individualized and not connected together. That is the whole problem. The MDs refuse to connect something which is UNEXPLAINABLE or reasonable to them. Please say someone will answer, as I cannot find anyone to answer anything and always evade the questions and think I am just being paranoid and stupid. |
| Tammy Feeney <thumperpeanut@icqmail.com> |
| Hi, my name is pete tynan i too was in the 1st. and our alarms
went off once. we were put into mop gear for 24 to 32 hrs. and then told
all clear "false alarm". during this time we were also
instructed to take a "pb" tablet. when i took my mop gear off
my chest and other body hair had grown radically. i don't mean darker or
thicker, i mean dark and thick in places it hadn't been before. has anyone
else had a similar experience?
also do you remember humerless medics not from your unit arriving with a special inoculation (just another "for whatever" shot) only these medics wouldn't tell us what it was, and acted really weird when joked with about it. i know that something was changed in me during this brief period of a few days by the hair growth. i came home from the gulf injured earlier than the rest of my unit and gut leave at home to recuperate. during this time i showed my family and friends my new full chest of hair. They were all really freaked out, at the time i was just happy to be alive. all of this was observed way before any gws scandals so i know something i was given or exposed to during this alarm period you mentioned probably caused some radical changes. hey mom, I'm an x-files baby! seriously i now have intermittent leg aches, some keep me in bed or a hot tub all day. i am also as of a few years ago noticed a change in my ability to deal with stress, concentrate, or control impulsive behavior. i was never the most emotionally stable person but as of the last year I've been unable to keep a job or deal reasonably with situations that cause stress. emotionally i feel like a 14 year old, and i just have a terrible sense of confusion that rarely lifts. it is often bad enough that i try to go with it and not care. oh yeah, my bowels went south shortly after the gulf war. how am i supposed to be able to patently deal with a complex process of dealing with the v.a. and aid apps. i don't even think ill ever be able to keep a real job again. gabba gabba hey.
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| I have tried everything. Does anyone have tremor problems
from this or deal that has found anything that slows this stuff down. I
do not know how long the body can live in a flight sympathetic state on
a constant basis. I have a friend that is trying to decrease his mood
swings as well as INCREASE HIS LEVEL OF concentration BACK TO NORMAL . I
WOULD WELCOME FEEDBACK. LEVI 4-20-2000 |
| Hi Levi, The closest thing to what you call tremors that both my husband and I experience is our bodies at times go through a jerking motion which we can't seem to control. This happens mostly at night when we are trying to sleep. Even though I was not in Saudi (my husband was) it still happens to me along with the many other symptoms. So if this is what your talking about, you're not alone and I don't have an answer, sorry. Freda H. Babinski <Tndeer1@aol.com> |
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Does this get worse over time? I just began researching GWS last night, as a light bulb clicked within me yesterday that most of my husband's problems over the last weeks (4 months) may be directly related to GWS. He had major surgery (indicated below, under the 'Kidney' topic) back in 1994, as a direct result of the war. He is receiving disability from the army, for the rest of his life, as a result of this. My husband has been suffering gravely
from fatigue/exhaustion since the beginning of this year, with
absolutely NO motivation to help around the house anymore. He does work
a full-time job, and on his days off, he spends moping on the
couch, constantly complaining of sore muscles and Does this all sound like GWS? Other family members are now becoming very concerned, as they are seeing (and living) the same things I am. I want to help him, but don't know where to begin. He was headquartered in the tank division, 1st Battalion, 72nd Armor, US Army. bree April 10, 2000 |
| The answer to your question is
absolutely ... YES ... this is
coming from a Gulf War Veteran who is suffering from the
"SYNDROME" (I hate that word)
I started feeling the symptoms about 6 months after the war and it has gotten progressively worse each year....first it started out with a little fatigue and has grown into a daily chore to even get out of bed. While on active duty exercise got harder and harder to do...so I got
out of active duty...and joined the National Guard (figured I could
still be part of the military that way) a couple of years later I was
retired (medically) because I was getting to the point where I could no
longer perform at military standards (that's a rough blow to man who has
15 years and combat) Now I try to live day to day on the candy (drugs) the VA has given me and the meager disability. I get and try to keep my family together and happy. There are many days I feel it would be easier for me to just die and let my family get the life insurance than to let them watch me just disappear through this illness. William Lake (medically retired) <lakew@pdqnet.net> e-mail does not work |
| I have been doing a lot of research and have found a lot
of information on gulf war syndrome, more than happy to share& also
we are losing benefits from the federal government & thats not a
good thing! email vetshelpingvets@onebox.com
tony starks <vetshelpingvets@onebox.com> Hi Tammy, Kristie 4-22-00 I have GWS and Mycoplasma Fermentans. I am just contemplating doing
hyberbaric myself. My doc is Dr. Gunnar Heuser out in California and I
am going to be starting treatments soon. I do not know how successful it
is but I can let you know. |
flu-like symptoms.