2012 Report of the Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses Task Force (GWVI-TF)
The Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses Task Force (GWVI-TF) was set up to address the specific and unique concerns of Veterans of the 1990-1991 Gulf War Era. The focus of the GWVI-TF is to develop and integrate new knowledge into services that will directly benefit Veterans of the 1990-1991 Gulf War.
The 2012 Report of the Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses Task Force (GWVI-TF) is located at: http://www.va.gov/opa/publications/Draft_2012_GWVI-TF_Report.pdf
Over the past year, the GWVI-TF has continued to work to improve care and services to Gulf War Veterans. The work has proceeded around a premise that the efforts must become a part of the culture and ongoing operations of VA and not simply the purview of a special Task Force. To accomplish this goal, the GWVI-TF solidified the framework for organizing and synchronizing its efforts. That framework serves as the overarching template for this report. The framework is composed of the seven lines of effort listed below. These seven lines provide the framework of the 2011 and 2012 reports. VA welcomes your comments and suggestions regarding the report in each these areas. Please select the link(s) below and provide us your feedback on this important report.
- Clinical Care: Leveraging Veteran-Centric Specialty Services in Primary Care
- Clinical Education and Training: Putting Clinical Knowledge Into Practice
- Veteran Benefits: Delivering Compensation and Pension and Fiduciary Services
- Veteran Outreach: Improving Communications to Gulf War Veterans
- Partnerships: Improved Data Sharing with the Department of Defense
- Ongoing Scientific Review and Surveillance: Taking Advantage of Untapped
- Sources of Data Related to Veterans’ Health
- Research and Development: Encouraging Targeted Efforts
Thank you for your continued service and for helping VA to improve the services to this important Veteran group.
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gulf war tracking system for exposed veterans should be cross referenced with Allied Forces Gulf War Veterans Data Bases for Treatments. En
Neurologists in colleges around the world should be presented with the challenge to solve Gulf War Syndrome. Give them a "Dr. House" problem.
If you open it to the upcoming doctors that have no prejudices, or drug company lobby backing them or military choke hold on them you may actually solve the problem. We have assumed that all the Task Forces have had the military members interest at the root, when in fact they are using tomb stone rational instead. What is tomb stone rational? It is used in many industries such as aviation, wait until a flaw causes enough…
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Work with VA to develop a presumptive for the issues we are experiencing.
The current presumptives and DBQ's have so many overlapping symptoms it is very subjective as which symptom belongs. Due to a symptom only being able to be compensated once due to pyrimiding. As for the current presumptives CFS, IBS and Fibro all being diagnosis of elimination and no effective treatment for these it is little wonder doctors both VA and outside question these as a diagnosis.
The undiagnosed illness presumptive under 3.317 is problematic due to really varied medical opinions and mutiple opinions requested that are differnt one each symptom. VA systemwide has been very inconsistant in awarding service connection…
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Compensation
If certain conditions are presumptive from Gulf War Illness, then the VA should compensate veterans immediately - similar to that of Agent Orange of the Vietnam era. If the veteran was there, received the Southwest Asia Medal and/or Combat Action ribbon, they should receive a minimum of 30% compensation. If the veteran shows signs of additional conditions at a later time, they file a claim for compensation and should get additional compensation. I am currently at 70% disabled due to PTSD and sinusitis. From these 2 conditions, I have high blood pressure, sleep apnea (using a CPAP), erectile dysfunction, sleep…
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Sorry, VA, you have zero credibility; Yet we hope there will be some deliverance.
How about -- as if you are even listening -- using the research already amassed by credible 3rd party scholars. How about you actually determine any correlation between GW service and MS/MS-like symptoms as you were directed to in 2008. How about you stop denying GW vets' claims, despite the plethora of civilian dr.s' evidence often submitted in support. How about you require your staff not to treat GW vets as malingerers. How about you reward those minority of VA staff that try to do the right thing while trapped in a corrupt organizational structure. Until we see proactive and…
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Its Not All In My Head
Unfortunately, PTSD has been the DX of choice by many Physicans that do not have the time or answer to all the symptoms - everything from ALS, lymphnode probs, thyroid, strokes in hyperthalmus at the age of 30, rashes, Sleep Apnea, early age dxs of protate cancer, war vet Moms access to common symptoms of their children's issues - Despite probs in VA they've made some progress since my 1st visit in 1992 - still have thyroid disease, lymphnode and other probs that haven't been addressed seriously or compensated for - there's still a lot more Public Officials should be…
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When I returned I was already having bad migraines, rashes, vertigo, Irritable bowell syndrome, joint pain, chronic pain and fatique just to
When I returned from the gulf war I was already having bad migraines, rashes, vertigo, Irritable bowell syndrome, joint pain, chronic pain and fatique just tobegin to name what I remember...was checked for brain tumor due to symptoms but no go. Went thru the drill at Walter Reed with the registry but no help. retired from the service NS ATARTED filing my claims with the VA. I fought tooth and nail over the idea that we were exposed to crap over ther...with this neurologist bitch...I'd be yelling at her that she wasn't there so STFU cause you don't know anything.…
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VA Doctors need to not be "afraid" to diagnose GWS illnesses that are on the registry for compensation. Not 1 VA doctor will put their name
VA Doctors need to not be "afraid" to diagnose GWS illnesses that are on the registry for compensation. Not 1 VA doctor will put their name on CFSW as they say CFS is too broad. I meet the criteria for it but for some reason they will not diagnose this. Maybe better training for docs on the GWS illnesses.
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VA denies compensation for respiratory illnesses during Gulf War
Program where vets can apply and be evaluated based on claim.
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Doing more than dictating policy once a year to veterans via this forum as its contents are either ignored or censored for content
Public comments have been made over the last 2 GWVITF reports that either were ignored completely or were altered for content. Then on top of that the task force operates in secret vacumn the rest of the year with no public involvement ( website ) as it endorses the careers of its members who in some cases have no place in this arena. You have no authority and cant even get simple things done like the publishing of the Gulf War Review or any type of oversight into failing programs issues, or reports, The March 13th House VA subcommittee had…
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More studies need to be performed on GW Veterans
As a Gulf War Veteran, I have suffered from digestive issues since returning in April of 1991. I have had numerous procedures and "FINALLY" I have a specialist actually going to look at my small bowel. This is the very first time EVER that a specialist has made mention of this examine. So my suggestion is if there are thousands of service members suffering from digestive issues and they are part of this Gulf War Illness Task Force, I would suggest that the gastroenterology do both procedures as the same time, colonoscopy and an endoscopy. If nothing comes of that,…
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Nurological deficits from Pyrostigmine Bromide, Environmental Exposure, and Sarin Gas.
After being evaluated by a Neuropsychologist and a baseline established each review thereafter suggested that the conditions were progressively getting worse. I am to the point that I have bad tremors, random crossing of the eyes, dominant hand deficit, cognition deficit, balance issues, etc. When I asked the psychologist what was happening she said that neurologic toxins work in two ways; systemically or dynamically. That is in the first case consistent and on-going neurologic damage and in the second, it would be a one time event with no further deterioration. In my case it was systemic, and the events that…
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"The Gulf War Registry is only as good as the Physicians who make the correct diagnosis"
The physician's who originally did the first diagnosis's when the registry came out didn't have anything to go by only hearsay. Now, because of our advance technology in the medical field you would think that we would have found something other than naming them undiagnosed illnesses or illnesses that are known but they won't review them as possible illnesses due to the PGW environment or give the veterans the benefit of the doubt, or more likely than not issue. But because of the influx of the new combat veterans and with the new presumptive disabilities from the Vietnam War we…
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Y'all are the smartest dumb people I have ever seen !
Just pay everybody compensation who served there and call it a day.
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Why is VA hiding its first GWVI-TF report from September 2010?
Why has the GWVI-TF webpage not have a link to its first report back in September 2010. In fact, there is no link on the VA website to this report at all. Those of us that were around for it know this information. The report is at http://www.va.gov/Final20GWVI-TFReport.pdf . How odd is that, with VA leaving this off its Gulf War webpage and its own task force webpage, Its mostly filled with ramblings of the past and then lots of unnecessary fill materials at the end. The next one would be much shorter.
11 votesThanks for pointing this out. I will see why the links were crosswired. I believe that there was an issue with this version as it looks like it it is still a draft based on the wide column on the right.
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Persian GUlf War Registry Washington DC VAMC, Desert Storm Doctor was incompetent.
Went to do Registry exam in local VAMC.
I did it before in 1993 in SF, in NC and now in DC. ALso I did one Registry exam in NC, registrar for Persian Gulf registry could not find me in their VA MC computers. She said that I was missing. Also I have documents proving that I existed and went to the Gulf War exams in NC in 1996. It really set my mind off, and I started to go thru all the daocuments related to me and VAMC. I found letter about Khamisiyah and other.I spoke with Doctor from…3 votes -
One thing everyone should say is "why has the VA not done a follow-up study on all of the diagnosed illnesses in the veterans of Desert Sto
One thing everyone should say is "why has the VA not done a follow-up study on all of the diagnosed illnesses in the veterans of Desert Storm? They was to have done one a few years ago that was to look a all of the illness we are diagnosed with not the mental health issues. I know many with Migraines, GERD, sleep apnea, nerve problems, and thyroid disorders. When will you do this study to look at the deployed and non deployed veterans? We are smart and know that most that cannot get into the service is because they may…
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gulf war tracking system for exposed veterans should be cross referenced with Allied Forces Gulf War Veterans Data Bases for Treatments. En
Gulf War Illness and Symptoms should be cross referenced with Allied Force Gulf War troops. England, Australia, Germany, Spain, etc... These countries are dealing with Gulf War Syndrome as well and they have data bases of information on both SUCCESSFUL and unsuccessful treatments. They also have databases of information that a computer could process together.
I would add in the data on the people and children that are in the countries Gulf War Veterans fought in such as Liberation of Kuwait in Kuwait City where we lined up all the captured tanks and artillery. Then when we released that many…
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Include information and data relevant to affects to offspring of these vets
Please research, include inform vets and families of the potential illnesses the children of these vets potentially may or have experienced. Civilian pediatricians are NOT informed or up to date on the syndrome, our children are being misdiagnosed, medicated and without any medical relief
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