Hello to all. After Desert Storm, a Gulf War Registry was begun. I was contacted by Department of Defense and was asked to report for a comprehensive physical. That was in the mid-90's. Results of the physical included muscle pain, shortness of breath and a diagnosis of sleep apnea. I wonder if any of those symptoms could have been precursors to the outright MG I was positively diagnosed with in November of 2006. I am currently taking Mestinon. Interesting that in the Gulf War, it was called Pyridostigmine Bromide. They issued the medicine to us to take in case of nerve gas attack. Same medicine, only in much lower doses in the Gulf, only 30 mg. I have received letters from Department of Defense over the years stating my unit was in the area of a large nerve gas explosion in Iraq in March of 1991. My neurologist has given me a written letter that states that exposure to organophosphates (high powered pesticides) has definitely been linked as a cause of MG. Have any of you heard of that? I thought this was interesting as the report just released nationally about ten days ago states that a combination of exposures to organophosphates, nerve gas and PB (Mestinon) were factors in defining Gulf War illnesses.