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 have occurred over time support that conclusion. We were billeted next to a Saudi trash dump that burned night and day and the smoke hovered over our area. Saudi's are not environmentally conscience. We patrolled when oil wells soaked our skins and clothing. We were told to take PB a medication used to treat other kinds of medical conditions, unapproved injections for biologic warfare, and finally CBR alarms would go off in our cantonment area after SCUD attacks. That is not to say they had Sarin payloads, only that prior munitions loaded into them may have contaminated them. Shooting down a SCUD does not render it harmless; all that junk still falls to the ground.
I was told by my Psychologist that the government will never admit to this since the mantra at the time was there were no CBR in theater and not to look for any serious treatment or further investigation.
I believe that the Task Force needs to buckle down and do serious research without government bias and try to determine what kind of neurological issue each vet has, and what kind of treatment protocol needs to take place to at least let each vet have some quality of life instead of the "Deer in the Headlight" looks we get from our PCP. Maybe our PCPs really don't know what to do. We need to smarten them up.