Similarities between IBM and ALS - Dr. Todd Cohen at TMA's Veterans Affinity Group Meeting

Originally recorded in August 2023. Dr. Todd Cohen of UNC Chapel Hill speaks with TMA's Military Veterans with Myositis Affinity Group about the similarities between ALS and IBM.

[@dontuckerjr]

I am 62 yo, and was just diagnosed with IBM. I am an Air Force veteran. Basic training was indeed at Lackland AFB in 1981. I then went to Sheppard AFB for electronics training. Both bases in Texas.
I recall the immunization lines where we received our shots. I do wonder about those injection guns they used and how sanitary they were.
I also worked as a medical equipment technician at the AF Academy in Colorado Springs. I worked on those shot guns there so I assume that cadets were receiving the same shots as I did as an enlisted airman. It would be interesting to know if AF Academy attendees are included in this interesting accumulation of AF IBMers.
If there were a jet fuel relationship, would we know anything about the general services personnel that worked on these Air Force bases and their incidences of IBM?

[@douglasdunbar2298]

I was diagnosed with ibm after three years of tests before being given the diagnosis it is now ten years of that diagnosis the course has been remorseful at the onset I was falling daily so I began using crutches to help me walk around the quadriceps have now gone and the muscles on my arms are now unable to be of much use I cannot write or hold cutlery so it is obvious that this thief of life is on going I have to cope with other conditions insulin dependent diabetes no thyroid and a pace maker fitted over forty years ago my age is 87 years old I discipline my out look to handle todays problems and not entertain tomorrow at the onset of ibm a Canadian doctor friend had cured a 54 year old lady in New Zealand with the use of the keto diet he published a paper on this approach in curing ibm though my consultants treated this as a form of witchcraft and did not treat it as reasonable I am now relegated to a power chair I hope that this contribution is found to be interesting