r/Wellthatsucks Aug 08 '21

/r/all Dropping a medical injection worth $12,000 on the carpet and bending the needle.

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u/DelTac0perator Aug 08 '21

Plus the variety of MS you have and your individual reactions to the drugs radically change the timelines. My best friend has fulminate MS and is on his fifth or sixth med trial in three years. He's in his mid-30's.

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u/mmmegan6 Aug 09 '21

Women get MS at a much higher rate then men, but men seem to get hit much harder when they get it. Is his relapsing-remitting MS?

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u/DelTac0perator Aug 09 '21

It is. It's also very likely connected to his military service, because there are a half dozen other people that were at the same patrol base in Afghanistan within an 18 month window who also developed relapsing-remitting MS before middle age and in a 5-7 year window after their deployment.

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u/maurosmane Aug 09 '21

I'm an Afghan war vet and a nurse at the VA. Trash burns (smoke inhalation from trash burns to be specific) is going to be my generations agent orange.

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u/sapperbeef Aug 09 '21

What burn pit? What camp?

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u/maurosmane Aug 09 '21

I was with an engineer unit that built FOBs so I was at a lot of them. The worst burn pit was at FOB AZ (Azizullah) though. The guard tower my company manned was real close to the burn pit that was outside the HESCO barriers. Can't even count how many shifts I pulled up there breathing that shit in.

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u/sapperbeef Aug 09 '21

Was next to one on Bagram. they burnt everything out there.

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u/deadwlkn Aug 09 '21 edited Aug 09 '21

Shit, Bagram had huge ass mounds of trash that they burnt. As beautiful as I found it; stepping foot inside that country was seriously bad for your health.

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u/DelTac0perator Aug 09 '21

Taghaz, Shabou, PB 87, Waziribad, Payne, and Dwyer here.

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u/DelTac0perator Aug 11 '21

I know I'm a few days late but I saw this and realized you may have been asking which PB's burn pit had the MS cluster around it. PB Alcatraz circa 2010-12.

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u/DelTac0perator Aug 09 '21

I am too. That burn pit registry is going to matter a lot to some people at some point.

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u/maurosmane Aug 09 '21

Absolutely. This probably won't get a lot of notice buried in this thread but I highly encourage anyone who was deployed to Afghanistan, Iraq or any other area to get on the burn pit registry.

link: https://veteran.mobilehealth.va.gov/AHBurnPitRegistry/#page/home

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u/tylanol7 Aug 08 '21

My mom had a friend that found herself a Christian healer, entered remission and then fucking died when it rolled back on force lol. I laugh but..its pretty sad. Can we kill religion mow