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Elizabeth1979 </SCRIPT> Newbie (female) Mar 2007 Location: TN Posts: 2

Re: multple undiagnosed conditions Hi! I am very disturbed by your post. I don’t know if I want to scream or cry. I was stationed at Tallil AB at the beginning of OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM in 2003. I got sick while deployed, but not sick like I am now. I have been to so many doctors especially over the last 6 months. I am very ill now and feel like my life will never be the same. I experience pretty much all the same symptoms you describe. I really thought I was going crazy. I am only 27 years old and some days I feel like I’m going on 90. I have days where I can barely lift my 8 month old 17 lb daughter. Those days are especially emotional, because I don’t feel like I can be the mother or wife I use to be. None of the doctors can figure out what is wrong with me. I am seeing a doctor now who seems determined to figure out what is wrong. My platelet, white blood, and red blood counts have been all over the place since I have been back. I am suppose to have a biopsy done of my intestine at my next appointment. I change careers and now I am having a hard time keeping up. I feel like I’m killing myself some days, just to take care of my children. I would like to correspond with you and get any information the doctors have given you, and any new information you may get. I will do the same for you. I feel like it is going to take a miracle to find out what is wrong at this point. I am still hopeful that there might at least be a treatment. I need my life back. My husband was also at Tallil AB. He has had some type of allergic skin condition since he has been back. It is called herticarea.

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specialdelivery type=text/javascript> vbmenu_register("postmenu_2884190", true); </SCRIPT> Newbie (male) Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: MA Posts: 2

Re: multple undiagnosed conditions All: Not sure this is related, but it is quite compelling. In order to clean up lead contamination from outdoor firing ranges in a more cost effective manner, the military developed a process called phytoremediation. This involves the planting and ultimate disposal of plants that remove the lead from the contaminated soil. Where this gets interesting -it's been determined that the uptake of lead in the plants can be drastically increased (hyperaccumulators) with the application of (1)acetic acid and (2) a chelating agent-causing a slight decrease in the ph level in the soil. Why might this be relevant? Formic acid is chemically closest to acetic acid. In a paper called the **Barcelona Report, (1) formic acid is a chemical breakdown component of aspartame (Nutrasweet or 'artificial flavor') stored inside the body. The FDA initially held off on approving aspartame as a food additive because the intact molecule was itself thought to be a (2) chelating agent. The lead-pH connection is the key. An acidic pH is otherwise brought about from an acid forming diet, emotional stress, toxic overload, and/or immune reactions or any process that deprives the cells of oxygen and other nutrients. There is an obscure condition (oncogenic osteomalacia) in which one or more chromosomes responsible for regulating serum phosphate levels becomes defective. I suspect that this could be the result of exposure to a mutagen like lead, causing a hereditary mutation. Without adequate serum phosphate levels vitamin D conversion becomes significantly impaired, if not impossible. There have been many recent studies correlating vitamin D deficiency with many of the conditions that have been disproportionately diagnosed in the GWS community. This condition is quite rare and should be fairly easy to screen. The telltale labs would be alkaline phosphatase and serum phosphate. [** the study conducted by the staff of the Biology Department of the University of Barcelona clearly demonstrated that aspartame which was labeled with carbon 14 isotope was transformed into formaldehyde in the bodies of the living specimens and when they were examined later, the radioactive tagged formaldehyde was spread throughout the vital organs of their bodies]