Up until last night, I was not aware of the comparison between these and GWS, but if you google it there is info everywhere about it. Something new to me!! Now Gulf War Syndrome 'IS' taken seriously!!
Very, very odd that GWS vets are experiencing fibro and CFS. These vets were found to have a genetic mutation that made them less able to tolerate certain chemicals and toxins and the same mutation is linked to some neurological diseases, including ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, aka Lou Gehrig's disease.)
So does that mean that we too have that same genetic mutation that makes use less able to tolerate some chemicals and toxins? Did we breath in something, like pesticides on grass (a practice that's always seemed dangerous to me) and develop Fibro through time? Where does stress fit into this equation? Gulf War vets were also exposed to a ton of stress. So were many of us. Does stress play a part in fibro as well?
It'll be interesting to see what eventually emerges as the answer to the fibro riddle. You know that more studies will be done because the military doesn't want those vets suffering with fibro and CFS to remain incapacitated with them.
Thanks for bringing this up, SK.
Don't get me started on the Vet thing, my husband is a Nam combat Vet. Was a platoon leader, In doing research on his Agent Orange exposure, I discovered they used and tested Defolient Agents of every color of the spectrum, by the dozens of colors. Here these guys were, he in the "Iron Triangle" with nothing, napong raining from the sky, all these defolients everywhere, poisonous snakes everywhere, tunnels under their feet, not knowing who was a friend or foe, ingenuity was a necessity to survive, they were making showers out of orange barrels as that was all they had, and had plenty of!
I could write a book, and we just got a booklet on the agent orange update review, I'm sure that will be interesting, to say the least.
Here is just one of the many confirmations on stress as an onset to fibro.
http://doctorstevesbanjo.com/why-stressful-events-can-trigger-onset-fibromyalgia/