lymphoma - MS - Brain tumors - loss of child - family harmed? How are our vets alike?

lymphoma - multiple sclerosis - brain tumors

My dear friend is a 32 year old gulf war veteran. He served as a medic with the marine corp during the beginning of the invasion.

In January of this year he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
In June he was diagnosed with two frontal lobe brain tumors (he won't let them do exploratory surgery) and extremely toxic levels of mercury in his blood.
The latest diagnosis came 3 days ago--lymphatic cancer. I don't know if it's Hodgkin's or non-Hodgkin's--I went numb after the words 'lymphatic cancer' and didn't hear much else.

Do any of you think this is gulf war related? I'm not a veteran, but I feel in my gut that there must be a connection. He's not very informed about this, so I've decided to find out everything I can. Is it possible for him to get some kind of benefits because of this? He's afraid of going to a VA hospital. Does this sound like a death sentence? What should he do next? does he even have a chance? Have any of you heard of gulf war vets having these particular illnesses? And finally, what can I do to help my friend?

Oh yeah, his wife is determined to get pregnant. That sound's like a really BAD idea to me? does anyone else agree. pissedoff Sept 4, 2000

Concern for birth defects - shared by others

I'm looking for gulf war vets who spent their tour entirely on ship, land duty was limited to a few practice landings in a couple of different places. I'm really messed up and want to hear from others who also have problems. Joe.

I was aboard ship for the entire tour and am also messed up. My time was with the Canadian navy. I have never been sure that my ailments were because of 'Gulf War Syndrome as all the military doctors and specialists have said that my complaints were due to aging and other "normal" occurrences. Here is a partial list of the problems I have:

joint pain - told it was arthritis
vision getting worse - told it was from aging (always had 20/20 until the gulf), blurry vision - aging
rashes - called it a worry rash
stomach problems - poor diet
stress - family etc problems causing it
hair loss - aging
losing temper - part and parcel of stress and the list goes on.

My problem is that because I spent the tour on ship how could I be affected. Unless it was was from all the shots and pills we were given.

Kevin

November 15, 2000

September 06, 2000

I have served in the navy from 86-92. I was never deployed to the gulf but yet have similar problems that the one's who were I've gone to the VA hospital but all I get is the runaround. I've gone to regular doctors who have run blood test after blood test but found nothing that explains the symptoms that I am having I feel trap with these problems because they won't go away. I have applied social security, but I don't like it.

I have had good jobs but had to give them up because of my illness that no one seems to find. I have two little girls and my wife who seem to be coming down with similar problems . My wife was also suppose to have a baby that we lost at 3 month into it. I am afraid to another one for fear that I might lose that one or it comes out deformed.

I have had weird mood swings that I can't explain, all I wish for is that the doctors could give me something that would cure me so that I could live a normal life. So I ask for help from other veterans who are suffering from runaround that VA and our gov't has given.
god bless!

Mark

If we are going to find the cause of so many of our autoimmune issues and harm to military and housewife alike, we are going to have to take a look at how their harm is similar & look for the common denominator: CFIDS fatigue!

I suspect 2-butoxyethanol overexposure through the decades is the culprit. A more serious look at Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome or symptoms is most likely there, too ... if not directly, as a birth defect from someone in the family

And we need to understand the strong second hand solvent exposure that 2-butoxyethanol has.