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Results of a new study presented recently at the International Thyroid Congress show that Vietnam War-era veterans who were exposed to Agent Orange have three times the prevalence of Graves' disease compared with unexposed veterans. The study also showed that diabetes was two times as common in Agent Orange-exposed veterans. Ajay Varanasi, MD, an endocrinology fellow in the department of medicine at the University of Buffalo, and other researchers participated in the study.
Study Links Disease, Agent Orange Exposure
Seeded on Mon Sep 27, 2010 11:03 PM EDT
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I guess Im a prime example of Agent Orange I was diagnoised at the Marion Il Va with Type II diabetes and in 1988 with Cancer of the mandible cause Agent Orange, and this year I finally have my disabilities for them approved.
#1 - Tue Sep 28, 2010 11:15 PM EDTI'm glad you are home, alive, and FINALLY have the help that you deserve. welcome home, sir. Thank you.
Cpl Brite
USA, 86-89
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Thank you Cpl Brite I appreciate it very much
USMC 1969 Vietnam 1970-71 Desert Storm 1990-91 retired 1994.
Sat on a damned tarmac for 3 months for Desert Storm... They couldn't decide whether or not to send about 40 of us... decided they didn't need any more 91Bs in Ryhiad... Now I'm married to the Army... again... LMAO
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I second the sentiment sir and I am a vet also and nurse and i cant even fathom with all the studies we do we are just now figuring out the issue about the agent orange exposure and the diabetes and thyroid issues....it took this long.....ive taken care of many vietnam vets in long term facilities and over the years and the hollow looks in their eyes of pain and abandonment is worse than the physical dessimation ive noticed they have........much heart disease and much lymphoma and neuromuscular disease also.....I was trained by the brave vietnam vets who stayed in the service and they had an edge and that must of been the ptsd but they had a passion to make us ready and prepared for battle and i am indebted to them and love them.....stay in touch and keep the faith sir....i admire you !!!!!
#2 - Wed Sep 29, 2010 10:02 AM EDTThank you YIC I admire anyone who can and do serve this country whether military or peace corps or civil service, itsa hard job protecting a nation that is so hated and reviled by so many jealous nation that dont have the freedoms we enjoy.
Im trying to work on that heart disease from AO as now its a new symptom, I had a heart attach in 2004 from 2 veins colapsing so I have a hard raod ahead to try to get compensation for it.
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dont worry so much about the compensation in the immediate and get treatment ...you are at high risk with what youve told me ...I was an RN 25 yrs ...listen get somewhere and get a treatment plan that likely in addition to meds and a nurse case manager to follow you and teach you ..willl include a cardiac catheterization and maybe stents and balloon angioplasty or need for open heart surgery ...listen to the warning signs ..pain on exertion... fatigue ..jaw and arm pain and past histoory ..go to the va and demand to talk to social worker and nurse case manager now and get direction...if no response tell them you are going to go to county clinics for now for treatment and will be on their tail and expect them to shortly dive in and take the reigns over.,..DO NOt WAIt on treatment and MEDICAL MANAGEMENT....get to providers now ....You are a time bomb of risk I can tell from the little info you told me...Ive got a trained medical mind...RNS order and ex spec ops support trust me..... Semper Fi but go army !! Smiles !! Now do what I say you leatherneck you cause i love talking sprts with ya and love your spirit of inspiration and you have great purpose still....you can keel over at any time...NOW get treatment and get assertive ..also there is a facebook called VMWUSA Its about the warrior ...THIS SITE IS WORTH ALL THE GOLD IN THE WORLD FOR YOU ..get on it and read and get the treatment and advocacy you earned ...its the greatest of sites...UNfathomably an unreal blessing for the veteran like us ....Go on it now ...OK your the sergeant you usually give the orders but i sense you need intervention and im going to SOUND OFF....
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Im sorry I may be misleading you, the Va takes care of all my medical care now. I have been accepted in the Marion Il., VA, and they take good care of me I am now over 50% diabled and working on more. Sorry if this has confused you, I was just merely stating that it takes so long to get the government to do anything for us, its as if they think they can drag things on for years the majority of us would have died off so they would not have to be out the expense of care. When I was in North Carolina, with my retirement pay and what I made doing appliance repair the Va refused to see me, said I made too much money for them to take care of me, so I had to rely on Tricare Insurance. but Once up here in yankee land all I had to do was prove I was a veitnam vet and they took me right in. Now all my care and medications (including heart meds), are taken care of by them.
But, so many others are still without the care because each VA care giver is different and they choose who they will take care of, but once in the system all have to take care of you.
I do appreciate your sounding Off as some one who needs the information you so graciously provided, may utilize it to get the proper care they deserve. again thank you for your supportand thoughts.
Marine... word of advice... NEVER piss off them nurses... they're MEAN! (I'm married to an Army nurse...)
LOL !!! We got those needles too we use and can make it hurt or not !! up to the patient ..ha ha lol ....made my day ..thanks for the laugh
Yes... yes you can... and evil... did I mention evil?? LMAO
He's still AD, at Ft Sam... with the WTU there... a Major now... went to the dark side, Gods help us...
OMG !! A cadence i used to love i will share...I dont like it no way up in the morning before day ...eat my breakfast too soon ...hungry as hel before noon..left right left right left...left right get in step....hoo ah !!.....and my old signal corp raor....rough tough lean and mean motivated dedicated fighting machine.... Echo that one !!! Excellence first !!! I am Signal ...
ROFL
He started life in the MP Corps... I did 12 GLORIOUS weeks at Ft Sam to become a HIGHLY motivated (totally useless in today's world) Combat Medic... LOL
Thats ok I love dem nurses, my mother was a nurse from the age of 16, till she died on the ward she worked, my sister is a nurse and the best care I ever got was from a nurse, so I love dem nurses. and needles just break off in this Marines skin. ha!.
OORAH,
I know a few cadences but cant use them here or even in boot camp anymore too unpolitically correct if you know what I mean.
Oh bless your heart combat medic .. Oh bless you for what youve dealt with ...Yeah Fort Sam I hear is the resort...We should get him exiled to Fort Lost in the woods or Fort Ord out in the desert and really make em sweat !!! LOL Hes at disney world at Fort Sam ....I loved Fort Gordon ...Augusta georgia beautiful ..Fort Benning in Georgia gets all the press but Fort Gordon a cool place !! I loved it ... I was gonna be an MP until the recruiter said were giving you a clearance and your going to be commo and signal corps .....That kinda ended that....So of course they take me out first cause if no commo thats that essentially...so i lived life with a bullseye painted on my combat commo van that said here I am !!! Highly motivated oh gosh I remember that term..ROFL .....Remember IT WOULD BEHOOVE YOU SOLDIER....Oh gosh all I can remember is fighting with that mad buffer everymorning that had a mind of its own to buff the fricken floor for inspection !!! oh gosh the good old days...But I tell ya those civil service ladies down south in georgia could cook and thaqt mess hall at fort gordon had better chicken than colonel sanders ever could muster....Oh remember standing in formation for hours !!! Oh sweep and mop and buff the floor your left right left.........I have an aversion to cleaning to this day sue to my uncle sams obsession with detail and cleaning !!!!!!!!!! I live in oscar madison filth now and love it and write like he did .....Freedom...Now if this PTSD woulld just go away..But yeah lets send the marine to Fort Ord or worse yet Camp mc coy in wisconsin and let em rough it in the gomer pyle like aluminum barrackes...THEN HE WILLL REALLY NEED A COMBAT MEDIC AND RN LIKE US ...LOL LOL Lets talk to his CO....Smiles
Nah... I want him at JAX! I'm in Charlotte in school... learning to be a chef! LOL We have that long distance Army relationship thing down to a FINE art! LMAO
Ft Drum is nice... in the summer... in hte winter... sucks MOOSE! Fitzsimmons (now closed) was AWESOME! I miss that place! But it was the BEST place in the world to have a premmie baby. That's where my youngest was born. She's the reason why I got out.
But the truth is... I grew UP in the military... Dad was Navy (30 years), Mom was AF, my little sister was Army, married a Marine, and I was Army and married Army. I don't know any other way of life. I don't htink that I ever want to.
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Sorry folks been around the world 3 times lived in some of the nastiest places, vietnam phillipines guam Camp Pendleton Ca. Camp Lejeune NC, 29 palms Ca. Barstow CA. MCLB Albany Ga, Miami Fl, Kaneohe Bay Hi. Yeman, Oman,Suez,Abu Dhabi, Saudia Arabia Kuwait, Iraq, Washington DC. nastiest place. thats just some of the places. 24 years gets you around.
Retired 1994. just an ole Jarhead waiting orders to guard the Pearly Gates. or to take over Hell.
ROFL Marine --
One of my best friends is a recovering Zoomie... he and my husband were each other's best men (different sister)... ANYWAY... he says that the reason why we aren't allowed to be all in the same place for longer than 3 days is that people are afraid that Western Civilization will collapse....
I say... as long as my step sister is holding the bail money... why worry...
Gosh I feel honored like I should drop and do push ups and salute !!!! But strength is truth ..Is Delta Farce a farce or a force..Either way this retired RN is just happy to realize a dream of being a writer and I am lucky to have been a well travelled orphan likewise exposed to so many cultures like josephs coat of many colors and so great to share and gleam off you guys ... I tell ya when I look in my courtyard and see chilldren play in innocence ...and I see the elderly and disabled like myself have a community that watches over us now and protects and is free and thriving ..I THANK GUYS LIKE YOU ...THE REAL backbone of this freedom and liberty and the sacrifice and blood and sweat you gave is honorable and reverence and glory to the creator and almighty who we serve first.. I tell you you guys are globetrotters....and marine 29 palms california ...wow !!! OK YOU deserve time at fort sam disneyworld you guys earned it !! and the real disneyworld ....R AND R granted forever ..yes I CAN
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