| I think those who are medics are at high
risk for exposure to the chemical of war and explosions. The
simplest term would be second hand exposure to BUTYL or a commonly
used chemical (as in 2-butoxyethanol) in cleaning products and paint
... An injured soldier that you are close to for hours can be
breathing the chemical that have been an exposure to them ... and it
gets in your eyes. Often you will hear spouses talk about this. They
come down with 'the syndrome' too So, in the setting of 'syndrome' of each war era & even for civilians with similar exposures that are non-war, I would look for the pattern .... (CFIDS, CFS, FM, ME) and then would reinterpret the PTSD as the odd thinking that occurs when there is a poisoning of the nervous system. It also can cause suicidal tendencies, paranoia, depression, improper sleep, and an out of the norm ANGRY response to about anything. Proof is the FATIGUE and also the short term memory loss, headaches. Do you each have FATIGUE? Insist that the doctors find the anemia, but they will need some helps to find it because you have more than one thing going on that makes 'the numbers' go all over the place and any number can be high or low and be what this chemical would cause. High white blood counts, for instance, in this setting is an anemia sign (not an infection or lymphoma which doctors would suspect) Helps I've gathered by looking at groups of people with known or suspected exposure to 2-butoxyethanol (a pesticide, a solvent, a poison, a neurotoxin, a pesticide). I have no medical background, however, I do recognize the pattern of this particular chemical. http://www.valdezlink.com/re/thecfidsview.htm
I think you should look into glycobiology
for help, as the primary issue with this chemical resulting in these
'syndrome' symptoms is on that is autoimmune. Some thoughts I shared with gulf war vets
(but I suspect what happened to the Vietnam vets was the same
chemical of harm, not AO as gets the blame) http://www.valdezlink.com/re/achemicaltosuspect.htm
Another Vietnam Vet comments on PTSD
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On another post, a comment that she was diagnosed with DISCOID LUPUS
Does this have an aspect of degenerative discs? ... & of course it would be an autoimmune issue!