- This study..."Antibiotic Treatment of Gulf War Veterans'
Illnesses".....concludes that long term trials with doxycycline for
GWI did nothing positive and, in fact, made the test subjects' symptoms
worse.
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- It has become very common to see bumper stickers which
urge citizens to support our troops. This is a worthy goal. But what does
this mean? What can we do to best support them? We can write them letters
and we can send them books and while these acts of kindness do mean alot
to the troops, does this really address the critical problems our veterans
are being faced with?
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- Our Gulf War 1 veterans are sick and many have already
died but the public is not informed of this. We are told that Gulf War
Illness (GWI) is a result of stress and possibly chemicals and depleted
uranium. However the most threatening menace remains unrevealed by our
government.
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- What is this menace? Many of you have heard of mycoplasma
fermentens which is patented by Dr. Lo and the U.S Army. Many of the veterans....and
a growing number of the general public... are infected with this patented
microbe. It appears that our soldiers unknowingly and unintentionally have
passed it on to the general public in the form of chronic illnesses such
as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, etc. Even lyme disease patients
are coinfected with this bug. The soldiers wouldn't be the only source
of this pathogen. For example, experiments with mycoplasma fermentens were
conducted on prisoners in a jail in Huntsville Texas. The guards acquired
it from the prisoners and they in turn passed it on to family members and
on to the general public. My feeling is that the government is admitting
to the lesser of the evils. Contamination with depleted uranium and other
chemicals is part of the problem and this is not being questioned. However,
partial truths are often used as a diversion to throw the public off track
concerning the wider scope or magnitude of a situation.
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- The veterans...along with many in the chronic illness
population, are not only infected with this possibly genetically engineered
mycoplasma, but are also presenting with many different coinfections.....especially
tickborne diseases. Biowarfare agents are often cocktails or mixtures
of different pathogens, many of which are genetically enhanced to be more
pathogenic and resistant to antibiotics and environmental factors. Biological
cocktails are a very effective means for confusing testing, diagnosis and
treatment. Because many patients present with such varied and numerous
symptoms they are often told they are malingering and need to destress
their lives....get a new spouse or take up a new hobby. As a result the
pathogens are allowed to pass through the population. Government officials
,who are experts in biological warfare, tell us that disabling agents are
the most effective way to economically destroy a country .....more effective
than releasing pathogens which kill immediately.
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- Because Gulf War Illness, in many cases, is caused by
a combination of factors, the veterans should benefit from a combination
of different treatment modalities. While many veterans are only given symptomatic
treatments, such as pain medication, antidepressants and skin cream for
rashes.....what is really needed is a comprehensive program which uses
detoxification, nutritional supplements and antibiotics such as doxycycline.
Antibiotics are being denied to many veterans, which allows the infections
to simmer and progress below the surface. One of the excuses for not using
antibiotics is "antibiotic resistance". I already mentioned that
antibiotic resistant germs are purposely being created in our biowarfare
labs.
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- Government agencies apparently do not want to approach
GWI in a helpful curative manner. Doctors and private researchers have
repeatedly shown that doxycycline vastly improves many cases of GWI. After
the improvement with doxycycline, blood is retested and often found to
be myconegative. In other words the treatment obviously appears to work.
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- However....a recent government study claims otherwise.
This study..."Antibiotic Treatment of Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses".....concludes
that long term trials with doxycycline for GWI did nothing positive and
in fact made the test subjects' symptoms worse. The symptoms which were
listed as worsening were sun sensitivity and nausea. What those researchers
failed to note is the fact that these 2 specific symptoms, which were
used as evidence that doxycycline does not work for GWI/CFS/Fibromyalgia,
are the very side effects of doxycycline itself. That's like saying asprin
doesn't work ( even though it may have relieved your headache ) because
it made the patient worse by causing stomach irritation....stomach irritation
being a side effect of asprin.
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- I will use Lyme Disease as an example, (which by the
way has basically the same symptoms and uses the same antibiotics for treatment
as GWI ). Many lyme patients use doxycycline. They also experience nausea
and sun sensitivity but that does not mean the drug is not lessening the
lyme disease symptoms and in many cases arresting and reversing the disease
process. GWI and Lyme patients also experience Herxheimer reactions (
worsening of symptoms due to germ dieoff and the release of toxins in the
body ). This reaction can go on for months.....usually in cycles and hopefully
on a diminishing scale, as treatment proceeds. This is almost always a
good sign that the antibiotics are working because they are hitting the
target!
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- For some reason the VA and the Department of Defense
seem to be the most threatened by the idea that biologicals play a very
large role in GWI and that in most cases antibiotics do improve the disease.
Oh....they seem to be doing their jobs by creating studies....but are these
honest studies or as I mentioned before, are they diversions? Because
the recent study found doxycycline ineffective in the treatment of GWI,
Stephen L. Robinson, who is the director of the National Gulf War Resource
Center, tells us that this is positive news because it narrows the search
for the culprit. He also says that "this confirms information that
has already been out there. We know that we can stop looking at this and
we can focus research on other areas that might prove fruitful."
Sounds to me like this study was orchestrated for the purpose of placating
the public and perhaps turning our attention away from the true culprit.
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- Joseph Collins, one of the VA researchers on this study,
is "not optimistic that medical research will ever be able to reach
a point in establishing a cause." What kind of attitude is that?
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- I've talked to researchers who are very knowledgeable
in the area of GWI and it's treatment. They know doxycycline and certain
other antibiotics work in GWI. They were very disappointed with this study
and believe it was rigged to fail from the beginning. It is believed that
the patients recieving the doxycycline and the placebo, were switched around
during the trial. These people say they will never again trust anything
that the VA / DOD , or it's physicians, say or do. It was suggested that
the VA be shut down and that it would be much more helpful for the government
to pass out vouchers to the sick veterans so they could visit doctors and
hospitals of their choice.
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- To learn more about what veterans have already gone through
and what they will continue to experience, if something isn't done, please
visit http://gulfwarvets.com . Here you will find incriminating government
documents, articles and real life experiences of Gulf War Veterans. You
will also find discussions of what treatments work for this illness and
therefore what treatments also work for related illnesses such as CFS and
Fibromyalgia. This website also sells products to raise money for the
veterans so they can recieve those products free. These products are very
helpful in detoxifying the body and helping the body to become more alkaline.
These products also seem to be very helpful for healing the rashes experienced
in GWI.
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- I would like to close with a quote from an article entitled
"Operation Desert - Our - Vets: Has The U.S. Government Given Up
On Our Gulf War Veterans?" by Matt Tietjen from Boston's "Spare
Change" newspaper. "Let us refrain from engaging in the sort
of blind patriotism that only romanticizes involvement in the military,
encouraging today's youth to enlist and become vulnerable to the same circumstances
that have devastated the lives of many veterans. The United States Of America
is a great country in many ways. This is because of the sacrifices made
by it's citizens for more than two centuries. In this light, the non treatment
of Gulf War Veterans is a criminal offense on the part of our government.
Unless our previous generations died in vain, we live in a democracy.
This makes the government accountable to us: it's not the other way around."
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- So....lets show our support by demanding honest research
and effective treatments for our veterans. If this means we have to fund
private researchers....so be it!
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