[Tom R]

I am a Vietnam Vet with MG. I was lucky that my primary doc at the VA notice my eyes before I had a lot of problems, but it took several months for the final diagnosis.  I made a big mistake by going to the VA for treatment (I was warned).  In 2013 a memorandum was signed making VA hospitals an integral part of residency training for the nation’s physicians. All the resident doc’s (??? NG’s) rotate in and out ever few months leaving you with no continuity in service. To top that off the head of neology here is a gas-lighter. He has gone so far as to deny treatment. One of the times he said “I don’t want to waste a hundred thousand dollars.”  Look up gas-lighting, medical gas-lighting and psychological warfare. It’s all the same.

The VA does counts MG as a disability if you were diagnose within ten year of getting out of service and can prove it.

The VA kind of ignores the words “Agent Orange”. They like to combine everything under “pesticide”. That includes herbicides and insecticides, plus????

Malaria pills (chloroquine) and insect repellent (DEET) may have been worse than AO. Several places in the Central highland of Vietnam are high in lithium if you were there. Diesel exhaust can cause immune system problems. I was in an armored unit.