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Join Date: Oct 2019
Location: Utah
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Newly Joined
Join Date: Oct 2019
Location: Utah
Posts: 1
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Me Too: MG and Desert Storm
How can you get a mild progressive form of MG from the Army?
I was age 44 when I was at Desert Storm, tented in our company area, near Hafer Al Batin. On 11 March 1991 about 0800, walking our company area, I was surrounded by a yellow cloud, the cloud being thickest toward the north and east. Sarin gas was present.
After Desert Storm, when I returned from deployment to my civilian job, I suffered from brain fog, and I couldn't keep up very well at business meetings. I grew lesions on my neck and chest, and I attributed the brain fog and lesions to the Anthrax shot (one), I got at my mobilization station. I self-medicated with caffeinated drinks. My career as business administrator fizzled, etc., but I managed to find under-employment at various desk jobs long enough to retire. The anthrax shot also caused auto-immune deseases?
Sept. 2018, after getting a sliver of tree bark in my eye, I started having double vision, which continues today. Sept. 2019, I had a blood test for Acetylcholinesterase Inhibiters, and my numbers were off the charts! I started reading about MG and recognized that I had felt mild forms of all the symptoms of gMG, going back years. My thymus was OK. MRI of my brain...OK. Thyroid...small polyp and heterogeneous tissue...inconclusive. I now conclude that I came home with MG from Desert Storm. Whether it was Sarin, Pyridostigmine, or whatever, the VA-MVP now has my blood, and they will be the only ones to really know.
I feel like a GUPPY for taking the Pyridostigmine tablets at my mobilization station. Others in my unit were refusing both these and the Anthrax shot. I'm here still learning the hard way.
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