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Old 10-19-2010, 04:52 PM #11
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Does Jim receive VA disability? How is he coping?
Yes, he is 100% service connected. He's coping best he can considering. He was a grunt, 101st Airborne and now a quad. He was originally on military disability when he was discharged but converted to VA. They take good care of him despite a few bumps in the road. He was discharged back in 1988.

Make sure you take advantage of all the benefits you are entitiled to including vehicle and adaptive equipment as well as adaptive housing grants. You deserve it.

PS: Also keep track of all your new symptoms in case you need a rating eval. Jim started out at 75% disabled and is now 100%
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Default 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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