Originally Posted by SandyC

You know Friend, we've thought about it but honestly cannot pin point any significant episode that might suggest ms was around before he started having eye problems. Fatigue was always a part of his military career so it's hard to say if that was ms or just normal tiredness. He was a grunt in the field and deployed all the time, never really at rest.

He didn't start having symptoms until we moved to Germany and he was in a mechanized unit. That unit wasn't as strenuous as an infantry unit so can't blame it on that. He was stationed in Germany in November 1987 and was diagnosed in June 1988. He even completed a 15K military foot march prior to receiving a diagnosis. His neuro wasn't too happy with him doing that. LOL He even competed in the Nurnberg male foot march after diagnosis and his medical detachment crew kept walking until they finished the race. They had shut everything down but waited for them all to cross the line.

Prior to that when he was in Ft. Campbell he was deployed to Jordan Egypt, Spain, Canada and Panama.

We did find it interesting that Persian Gulf War Syndrome is now being thought to be what triggers ms in military soldiers. Jim was in Jordan Egypt less than a year before diagnosis. Hmmm.