more research is needed to find out about skin rashes on the body.
have soliders come in and test them
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Angel Warrior 07
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Yes. Skin rashes are real. I take pictures and take them to the doctors. I have been fortunate to have the rash when I go to the doctors and they take pictures and send them to a specialist in Seattle. They wanted to give me Prednisone, twice the dose as normal folks as the guy in pharmacy put it and he couldn't beleive they were doing this to me along with some other meds. Well, I read about it all and found out it can cause cancer and lymphoma and other bad stuff didn't take it. I already had cancer since the Gulf War and don't want it again. I tried using silver water from water oz and it helped take it away. I get it back but not like it was and I have a good creme that helps with it. But if that stuff doesn't work try the silver water. It is real! Sometimes I can itch and I don't have a rash. It is like being in ecstacy when making love before gulf war illness was present.
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Anonymous
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Yes we have health problems and a lot of them. The VA will some day come clean about Desert Storm vets. Some days life become very difficulty when iI dont even get out of bed because, my body hurt so bad. We all were exposed to same thing. I dont even no who you other vets are but all this country of the US we are suffering from the same illness that to tell someone something is wrong with the Desert Storm vets. I hope something is done sooner than later for us. Hang in there it got to get better for us!!!
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Brian J
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Brian Jones commented · Just Now · Delete
I also had a skin rash coming back from Desert Storm. I went to the VA and had numerous apts. When I came back from deployment to OIF the reash reappeared. The first rash from Desert Storm I had for many many years, It would start under the skin and erupt and my skin would turn like a hard plastic and crack. happens on both arms from my elbows down. Was 88m in both deployments. When I came back this time I was told I cold reopen the old case. Problem is the VA says they have no records of my previous claim. I wish I had the forsight to take pics of the rash but I trusted (LOL) the VA and the Government to take care of me honestly. Feel totally screwed for the second time, this time I have come back with hearing loss and they have given me a 0% dissability even though 88 mic hearing problems are severe. So I am a Desert Storm/OIF vet, still in the Army Reserve that is deaf and have rashes, but the Army has no blame or records of anything LOL Please make sure everyone makes there own written and picture records. DON'T TRUST ANYONE OTHER THAN YOURSELF.
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Wes
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For those of you intrested the government needs to set up a visual research database including ALL VETERANS claiming Gulf War Illness unfortuantely some deployed veterans such as myself are being denied opporutinty to join research programs. Politics play a huge role in this issue keep that in mind.
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Wes
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The skin problems show that something real is going on in Desert Storm veterans. The problem lies in that propganda is being used by the US government to say only certain veterans got sick to avoid placing blame with the US government where it lies.
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Rob H
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I have huge knots that are coming in on my left side. (Two on my knee and two on my arm). That is in addition to the constant rash. The VA Derm. told me it was some form of rare juvinile skin cancer that can't be cured. When I told him it was getting worse, he said that was impossible because it didn't fit with his diagnosis.
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Honorable Dsable Vet!!!!
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HELP US WE DID WHAT YOU ALL ASKED US!
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Honorable Dsable Vet!!!!
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I have been having skin rashes to appear over my body every since my return from the Gulf War and have done all kind of test and the VA can and have not told me nothing.. They see the Rash and can not make out what it is and what is causing it and I am Hoping that one day they figure out that we are not just trying to bet the system just give us what we Rightful Deserve. What cause this and make it service connected. Its not going away getting worse. Bless Us All.
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janet
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If you have rashes, take pictures, get biopsied. go to www.mayocliniclaboratories.com, type on type of test, esp gadolinium. I'll bet you've have MRI scans, with contrast. Search it. have your renal function tested eGFR, not just creatinine. Need testing for connective tissue diseases. They are lying to you. See national jewish health.org, resp and skin sx are connected diseases. Stop suffering, get help. search gadolinium toxicity. Please!
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taydanry
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I have been dealing with things like JP Maier. I get rashes on my hands and have respitory problems. Ive been needing inhalors since my service in the Gulf in 1990-1991. Ive gotten tests done at the VAMC and Ive been waiting for almost 2 years to hear on my claim. I took a pulmonary test with them and my brathing improved 26 percent after two puffs from an inhalor. If Im not mistaken, you wouldnt be allowed into the military if you needed to use an inhalor and if you needed it after serving in the Gulf amidst all those burning oil wells and who knows what else, one would figure the VA would just approve those claims and quit making vets wait for extended periods of time. I hope all that served in any area get what they deserve.
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AngryGulfWarVet3SWAServiceStars
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The East Orange, NJ VA denies any skin rash claim, period. I've been fighting this VA for 7 years now on numerous claims that have either been low balled or denied. The doctors who gave my c & p exams have come and gone except the two idiots who should have their MD license revoked. One is a dermatologist and he's commenting on IBS/Irratible Colon claim and the other is a general physician who claims I told him my headaches go away with tylenol -- odd as I have never aken tylenol because in 1982 the tylenol scare -- he made up and flat out lied on my c & p exam/report. I had the traveling RO revue from the BVA in 2007 and have not heard back since -- 4 years later. The local VAMC I live 2 minutes from is worthless. The assigned physician denies I have IBS let alone Irritable colon -- even though my civilian doctors have sent proof -- don't even mention the therapist who claims we're all liars just trying to get a free lunch -- he had no clue who I was, my name, or anything about my medical background, yet he called me a liar and told me to get a job. Odd, he was upset when I asked him to tell me my name. It's all being denied to cover up the fact we are sick from our service. The government hopes enough of us die so they can come out and only have to pay a small amount of vets.
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Craig
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I have a skin rash that appears on my left forearm ever since my return from Kuwait (1991), but the VA discounts (C&P examiner) as poison ivy (laughable as it happens in the winter as well) or other lame excuses......
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JP Maier
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More research? How about ONE of the folks on this committee actually get out to VAMCs and talk to veterans. Not just some VIP tour where human lab samples are trotted out. I have been through four (4) VAMCs as both a patient and an employee in the last 15 years and can barely move 10 feet without running into a Gulf vet with skin-conditions, similar respiratory issues, and a host of other ailments that follow very distinct patterns. As a vet myself all I had to do was Google some questions and found several research data-sets publically available done by non-VA research centers. Even a sophmoric fact check can readily distinguish those reports that have undergone peer review and, not surprisingly, several substantive reports have passed said reviews. So why is it so difficult for an administrative committee to move forward on this? I guess the same question has been asked of your predecessors on the Agent Orange committee. Or was it even different people?
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janet
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Antrax vaccine did cause rashes, too. I also worked GI clinic at Fitz in Aurora, we saw all kinds of rashes and symptoms, I was dx'd with epigenetic adult Cystic Fibrosis in 2008, but in 1997 I was dx'd with asthma via methacholine challenge test. TAKE PICTURES, get copies of all medical records , military and civilian, DOD has records you don't have. I know.
Have skin biopsied of those rashes, NO guesses. Watch your kidney function via eGFR testing, not just creatinine. AVOID contrasted MRI and CT scans, the radioactive iodine and the gadolinium metal are toxic. see fda.gov + gadolinium or Nurse's Drug Handbook about contrast dyes, NAC RX for CT scans, never given, what about those of us at Kamisaiyah? 10th MASH and other 43 support group units. We saw the ammo/nerve agents blown up, and we were down wind. I have the information. Get blood levels drawn for HEAVY metals , all of them, lots of depleted uranium, now chromium, better watch your health. you can submit civilian MD notes to the VA regional offices near you.
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Sandra Galaszewski (Stai)
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FINALLY, I see others with rashes! I have had a rash since my first Anthrax vaccine and desert deployment; Bahrain in 1998. Several more months in the desert and several more vaccines later; the rash continued. It initially covered my entire body and now comes and goes in various different areas. The VA guesses it's dermatitis, however, the symptoms don't match...Thanks for sharing!! Good luck to all of you.
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janet
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search MRI side effects and gadolinium used in MRI's, though chelated, it dechelates in the body and causes symptoms that mimic and are neurological as in balance, falls, skin rashes and muscle pains, contractures, deep bone pain and doctors deny this. it's diagnosed with a skin biopsy for inc dermal mucin and fibroblasts and CD+34, normal renal function ,dec renal function or end stage renal function. it's not rare, though the NSF doctors at Yale would have you believe this, they wrote the paper and diagnostic guidelines. It happened to me, I just got the skin sx July 2011, last MRI w contrast was Dec and Sept 2010, but also VA and Univ of Col hosp did MRI's with contrast. I was never informed and it's not in the nursing or PDR, but CT contrast is, they are supposed to Rx NAC 5mg tabs pre and post CT scans. Never get a contrasted MRI, see gadolinium. They will lie and laugh at you as they did to me re my difficulty walking, pain and fatigue, not psychiatric. I contacted my Congressman . This is cruel and inhumane. Search it.
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Joel K Drennan
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We all have skin rashes and fatigue.memory loss etc...and they doctors can't do anything about it without testing us and finding out what is wrong. Don't make this another agent orange just test us and lets figure out what it is and help us. We are not mad we just want to be treated. if you have to pay us compensation for it so be it. The desert was and I am sure still is a nasty place. With the oil wells burning and so on back in 1991 who knows what we were exposed to but we have earned the right to be treated with respect and professional medical care. I meet a lady in 1996 that worked at Walter Reed and she told me some day the VA would come clean about the rashes and so forth just like agent orange. Please guys don't do it the the soldier again!
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Richard Velez
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I myself notice skin problems after release from duty in the gulf.
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Anonymous
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I did not know that other soldiers were having skin problems. Thought that there was just something wrong with me.
