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Hello I'm a Gulf War and Iraqi Freedom Vet. I've had symptoms of Gulf War Illness (rash, and chronic fatigue). Both have been gone for awhile, but within days of receiving my vaccinations for Iraqi Freedom I started having allergic reations to things I was never allergic to before. I was wondering if there is anyone else having this problem.
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I have a recurring rash and many new allergys since started having symptoms years ago. I am a desert storm vet however. Some new allergies that I have include Vit C, laundry degtergents, skin itches to death when any of these or more happens.
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wes Some of these symptoms could be due to fibro.I have found that alot of things id due to fibro with me as well that i never knew.I keep learning new things each time.I have High colestrol and some of the meds i cannot take because it can effect my fibro which i did not know.I have allergys to alot of stuff that you do plus meds,My diabetes does not help either because it also effects my fibro as well.But know this only gives the doctors something to blame most of my complaints to pin it on(Diabetes)I am also in the same position of not able to find the vaccines that were given to me as well. But I try not to dwell on that to much since I have great issue's with that problem.My only way of proving that case is finding friends i served with who were there who recieved the same shots i recieved who can make statements veryfying that.Well enough said good luck Wes with your situation.Salty Mark A USN
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I am having new problems as well lately. I am in process of trying to get the pictures uploaded to see if any the other vets are having the exact same issue. Might take a few days but I am curious to see if any the other vets are having this same issue and what if any thing helps with it. (I did find that salt water and vinegar baths helped me alot but I nearly killed my septic tank with them lol. Can't afford to do that so I got find something else that will work.)
Currently I dont have diabetes yet. I do have high trigcyirdes but I have found a few ways to lower those they are high but not through the roof like when this stuff first started.
I do have enough proof of medical problems to convince most people and will just have to be satisifed with that.
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Wes Does that Migrate to different parts of your body and also is it hot to the touch and when it does migrate and it hits your hands or feet does it get painfull kinda off.I have something similar that hits my hands and feet or my joints and it feels hot to the touch .Infact it looks just like that .Next time i have that symptom of it I will take a picture of it and have Gale Load it so that we can compare.I can garantee that my symptom is the same as yours .You will freak.What they used to help me last time was predisone treatment.But when my problem started again I asked to start a predisone treatment but because of my diabetes it screwed me up real bad and had to stop my predisone treatment.So now I am stuck with this problem again with no cure because of my diabetes.If you start to get diabetes then i really know that the shot I recieved was the same shot they gave you because that picture of that rash is a duplicate of what happens to me except that mine migrates to different parts of my body.I also get fevers as well but not all the time.But I am glad you posted that picture because it shows what i also go through as well. Mark A USN
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quote:Originally posted by wes007: I have a recurring rash and many new allergys . . .
Wes and others with rashes or pruritis,
It won’t hurt to ask your primary care doc for a trial of ivermectin. The drug won’t cost you any money and it is non-toxic. Anyway, your doc can only say, no.
The parasites that are sensitive to it (one of which is endemic in Saudi Arabia) cause a skewing of type 1 towards type 2 immune responses that is associated with atopy.
My experience was that a single dose of ivermectin (12mg) didn’t resolve my acquired allergies. It looks like the infection must be completely resolved for that to happen. This could take a few months or several years depending on the type of treatment.
Ivermectin is the drug with which, just in the last couple of months, CFS cases on both sides of the pond have claimed to have achieved an overnight improvement in their symptoms.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Surely anything is worth a try.
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Mark, you might try these common cures to aleviate it some. One home remedy I was using that worked but I had to stop was using salt and vinegar bath. Common salt can be cheaply bought and used and the vinegar also had soothing effects on my skin. The only side effect I had was you smell like a salad. I had to stop the baths cause they were killing my septic tank. I plan on bathing back in ocean soon as the water warms up again. Another common cure that helped for few months was Tea Tree Oil which is imported from Austrilia.
Another thing about this skin condition is it resovles itself if I knock myself out for about 8 to 12 hours with my sleep meds. I have after shots that shows the same area 12 hours later. The bad thing is if I don't knock myself out it gets worse.
Jelly question I have is with my blood enzyme condition is ivermectin safe for me to take? I will ask about it and see on my next skin visit.
I took antibiotics recently and used surgical scrub soap as the VA said it was MRSA. Symptoms cleared up abit that when I noticed it wasn't the scrub doing the clearing it was the 8 to 12 hours on sleep med's that was calming it down. I have used all the new hand soaps and alchol gels without effect and keeping fingernails cut short and not touching it still crops on different parts of the body. For the record I don't think this is MRSA it's more like my immune system is attacking any bacteria it encounters even the normally benfical kind is my guess.
quote:Originally posted by wes007: . . . . . Jelly question I have is with my blood enzyme condition is ivermectin safe for me to take? I will ask about it and see on my next skin visit . . . . .
Ivermectin pharmacology in the human body is negligible. CFS cases are currently taking 12mg/day (this is the empirical single dose) for 14 days without problems. God knows why because there are no known conditions requiring more than a single dose every few months. Ivermectin is horse medicine and they are taking enough to deworm an elephant . . . . very strange Posts: 279 | From: London, UK | Registered: Jul 2005
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I'm glad to get so much feedback and that picture is exactly what I get on my waist, arms and groin. It also makes my hands and feet swell to the point that the pressure is very unconfortable. After being seen by an Allergist at the VA she seemed to know the exact cause. She did some blood work and looked at the results for about 1 second and said I'm allergic to ibeuprofin and aspirin. I told her that I did not take it often enough to be the answer, but she seemed OK with it. It really aggervated me because I know thats not just it. I was taking Benydral and prednisone when the outbreaks would happen. Then it got more frequent and I was having problems with the prednisone (they made me very angry when taken for over a week at a time). She had put me on Hydroxyzie 3X a day and it was all gone within 3 days. She had told me to stop taking it after 3 weeks and as long as I don't take aspirin and ibeuphrobin I' be OK. Well no I'm not OK I having them again and I'm angry as hell because she's content with me taking these meds for ever without a true dianosis. I almost want to just give up trying to find out what it is, but I know it has gotten alot worse in the last year. I will try and post a picture so you can compare.
Thanks and keep up the info and maybe figure this out.
Mark
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jd4ms1 It is very frustrating to deal with this cause they also told me that i was allergic to pinnacilliin,ampacillin,erthymycin,ibeuprofin and aspirin,as well as the swelling the burning and the itching.What helped me once was predisone but now I can not take predisone so i am stuck with this crap again.They had said that it was celluits which i know was a bunch a bull.The va has no idea what it is and niether do the outside doctors do.I blame this on the shots i recieved .Since all this happened after my discharge within six months of my discharge.So who knows what it is.Blood work show up negitive on most things and the Va do not know how to treat it so it is a hit and run on meds to figure how to control it with me and i am always worried what meds to try cause i never know when i will have a reaction to them so i have to be carefull.We just have to keep sharing info and hope for the best Mark A USN
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Wes and Mark, I'm wondering how long your hives go on for. I've had reaction almost everyday for aleast 3 months minus the time I'm on hydroxizine. The last couple of days had been bad and I've had to take benydral and prednisone to slow it down. I think I also swell and get hives from the cold weather. Do you have the same problems. Are either of you receiving a claim for your problems.
Thanks, Mark
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Hello Everyone!! I had a doc one time tell me I had MCS, which is pretty common for FM/CFS. All these dang initials. Anyhow, I found that if you check out some of the different things around your house like latex, cleaning chemicals, air fresheners, etc. it would increase my reactions. Also the foods. The one that really gets me is the latex. Who on Earth is allergic to latex? Which by the way is in a lot of plants!!
Look into MCS it might explain a little bit more of what is going on. I have gotten better since getting out of the city life. As long as I keep the influences to a minimum I do OK. Green tea is a good thing to lower the nitric oxide levels which is also a common thing for FM and CFS. Not a lot of people know that part of it. That is one of the reason certain amino acids help FM. But there is an up side, if you live in the tropics you are less likely to get malaria.
My reactions aren't quite as bad as what you have going on, but my children have inherited some of my sensitivities. They get rashes when they ingest too much dairy, wheat, or soy from the US. Here they drink this Jungle tea called bukut tea. It is a mild detoxer. they love it though and they can eat anything they want here without issue.
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Was told I don't have lesh, however you spell it, and that ivermectin won't help.
Was sent more surgical scrub soap. Few other things I am trying. They also sent some clindaycin phosphate which I can't use seems to cause me to pass out after a few days of use from exertion of just walking. Wanted to prescribe some antibiotics but ones they wanted me to take might interfere with my G6PD (I need to find out badly which varaint I have of that) so I told them no.
This swelling and skin issues occur when I go without sleeping usally for some reason. It's almost like my immune system is attacking all bacteria in my skin for some reason. I take sleep meds and it causes the swellilng to go away for 12 to 14 hours usally enough to get stuff done without looking like a leper.
Currently I am getting non service connected disablity. Sorta strange about that in that I have many the same symptoms as others yet keep getting told I can't have it. That makes me angry as hell theres stuff that happens to me that theres no way I could be faking it.
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