Liver - Gulf War Vets
Want to hear from GW vets with Liver Problems
| Walter Reed AMC and the VA medical system have been following my liver since late 1991 /early 1992. I would like to hear from other vets who have liver problems with elevated LFT's (SGOT, ALT, SGPT, AST). Especially if you were told you were positive for "Q fever" or "leshmanisis/ lieshmania" Barry March, 2000 |
| Go to see a lyme literate Doc. Q-fever is a tick-borne disease. Ask to be tested for Erlichiosis also. Grace |
| my ex-husband was in the Gulf War. Ever since he came back he has been sick. He has a lot of parasite infections. He lost about 50 pounds. I think he has Lieshmania. No one can diagnosis him. Please email me with your symptoms. Shopmom31@aol.com |
| I was
diagnosed with "Lieshmanisis, Unspecified" after the folks at
Water Reed Army Institute of Research did multiple blood tests and three
bone marrow extractions. The titers were high and elevated on the blood
tests but they were never able to "isolate" the bug in the
bone marrow. This is/was common for this test. Some of the guys
that were there when I was there had the bug in the marrow one day and
gone the next time the doc's looked for it. They also diagnosed me with
chronic Q fever.
My symptoms include cardiac, neuro, GI,
dermatology, and other problems: Loss of vision, night sweats (not
sleeping), dizziness, painful abdomen. Which are symptoms included in
the symptom?? lists for both diseases. |
| Are you still sick? Did you have alot of weight loss? My ex-husband has. He just had another bone marrow test done, I don't think they tested him for that Sharri |
| I think that I have perplexed the medical community because with all these well documented, lab verified things going on I have both gained and retained my weight. I have extensive GI problems and they rebuilt my esophageal sphincter?? (spelling??) at Walter Reed in 1992. The surgery was to prevent esophageal cancer because the sphincter just stopped working. This was the aftermath of being violently ill in Iraq/Kuwait in May 1991. A few of us got sick in late Apr/May after being there for 6 months. So...no I have not lost weight but I wouldn't "judge a body by it's cover". Has your husband been to a GI (Gastro Intestinal) doctor?? BARRY |
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Barry, I am interested in your comment on the esophageal sphincter problem [and correction]. I am not a Gulf War Veteran. I believe I contracted a mycoplasma at Ft. Ord long before the Gulf War. I have been interested in the Gulf War Syndrome, and recently located a web page that suggests mycoplasma[s] may be a causal factor or component of the syndrome. Let me give you a reference: The most recent posting I've found is an article that is said to be in press in a Finnish journal, "War and Health". It may well have been published by now. The address to find it on the web is: http://www.immed.org/publications/gulf_war_illness/whc.html I suggest after calling it up on your screen, you page-down and read the several case histories at the very bottom of this website. Please, though, tell me how the esophageal sphincter problem might be related to GWS. Thanks, John |
| I got violently
ill in Iraq in May 91. After that I had a lot of bizarre symptoms,
and I could not bend over with out refluxing. This never happened before
(17 years of flight physicals). A lot of smart folks looked at my
resultant "zero" sphincter pressure and some came to the
conclusion that is a nerve control problem caused by ????. Maybe a nerve
agent, bio agent, ????? But that's as far as we got at Walter Reed. I hope that answers your question. -Barry Kapplan kapplanfarm@yahoo.com |
I would like to know what Barry was doing 15 minutes before he became violently ill
repost 3-2-06