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Originally Posted by echoes long ago
I know this doesnt apply to or affect probably any other poster on this board unless they were at the world trade center site on or after 9/11/01 but it is important to me and several here know of my years long battle to have this recognized. .
Finally a study was conducted and the results were positive as i knew they would be if ever a study was done. A correlation is shown between world trade center dust and nerve damage. This is a personal vidication for me. Since 2004 i have been trying to get the various medical centers of excellance who monitor and treat world trade center first responders, area workers and residents as well as the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health which now overall administers the world trade center medical monitoring program, to ask the question of participants : Do you have numbness, tingling, or nerve pain? They have so far refused even to the point of ignoring their own medical advisory board. Numerous neuro toxins have been identified in the world trade center dust. This is the cause of my peripheral neuropathy. of course more in depth studies will have to be conducted to affirm the link. but the link is there.
MINEOLA, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — A study on the short term effects of residual dust from the World Trade Center on rats showed some nerve damage, according to Winthrop-University Hospital Researchers.
The pilot study showed that exposure to dust from the debris of the terrorist attacks “affected the slowing of the conduction within the nerve,” said Dr. Marc Wilkenfeld, Chief of the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Winthrop-University Hospital.
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I was at ground zero on 9/11. I am now suffering from nerve damage to the extend that I can do very little. My condition went untreated for years, because the WTC clinics would not treat any one for nerve damage due to a list of symptoms or illness made by the government, and the gov. told the drs. if they treated any one for anything not on the list they would not be paid, and the WTC clinic would lose its funds. I was told this by a dr. at Roosevelt Hospital's WTC at a meeting with others fighting for proper health care for WTC victims.) Honestly, typing this is painful due to nerve damage.