A Casaulty of War: Gulf War Illness | Jennifer Jackson Gkourlias | TEDxSUNYGeneseo

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  • Опубликовано: 16 ноя 2024

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  • @karlknier713
    @karlknier713 6 лет назад +53

    Thank you Dr, I'm also Gulf War vet with Gulf War syndrome with same symptoms i use to live in Bergen NY but now Nevada mo, it is a battle every day just to make it through day thank you sincerely Karl j. Knier USN

    • @joaolimao9381
      @joaolimao9381 5 лет назад +3

      thank you for your service

    • @dawncawthra3519
      @dawncawthra3519 5 лет назад +3

      Thank you for your service. I'm sorry they've done this to you. No vaccine is safe. Literally.

    • @meaikiantonio4991
      @meaikiantonio4991 4 года назад +1

      @@dawncawthra3519 Even if they find a vaccine for coronavirus now? you're not gonna take it?

    • @dawncawthra3519
      @dawncawthra3519 4 года назад +5

      @@meaikiantonio4991 No I will not. If others decide to that's their choice entirely. I do hope there will be an educated and informed consent if they do decide to. I'll do my part and continue to practice good hygiene. I stress the importantance of nutrition. Our bodies are made fully capable of fighting any illness as long as it has the right nutrients.
      Vaccines are not a one size medicine, I found myself and oldest child to be very intolerant to them.
      There are many case studies that show vaccines can cause severe biochemical issues where the body begins to attack its own biochem and in some cases it's own DNA.
      Many many studies are put out regarding dog and cats vaccines. They seem to be more transparent than with human vaccines. It's a very good place to start considering human vaccines are heavily censored, with reporting being less than 10% of the actual incidence.
      CDC is actually not apart of the Government but rather a subsidiary of Pharmaceutical companies.

    • @meaikiantonio4991
      @meaikiantonio4991 4 года назад

      @@dawncawthra3519 Good luck with that, I feel sorry for your kids and your community for having to be more vulnerable due to your decisions.

  • @Manof777
    @Manof777 5 лет назад +27

    Thank you, Dr. I am a Gulf War veteran who suffers from the illness that the VA continues to deny. Your presentation is accurate and highly appreciated.

    • @dawncawthra3519
      @dawncawthra3519 5 лет назад +5

      All vaccines are dangerous. I'm sorry they've do e this to you. Thank you for fighting the good fight. You are appreciated.

    • @cstickles
      @cstickles 3 года назад +1

      Just read a posting on the VA's official website saying that they've been following veterans exposed to depleted uranium and there's no known health effects. HOW CAN THEY SLEEP AT NIGHT?..

    • @suzetteyoung57
      @suzetteyoung57 2 года назад +1

      @@dawncawthra3519 all Vaccines?

    • @dawncawthra3519
      @dawncawthra3519 2 года назад

      @@suzetteyoung57 yes all of them. Read the vaccine package inserts, it's all there. They can be found on CDCs website or on the manufactures websites.
      They've never done safety studies on the vaccine schedule either, and for good reason.

    • @mareksumguy1887
      @mareksumguy1887 Год назад

      It’s radiation poisoning from the DU isn’t it?

  • @giojared
    @giojared 3 года назад +8

    I got my dose of squalene in 1998. It has destroyed my autoimmune system, and I live in pain everyday. Thank you for bringing awareness with this video!

  • @David-cy7qv
    @David-cy7qv Год назад +7

    I'm one of the subjects in this presentation, I served in the Marine Corps in the 2nd Marine Division. I think much of what affects the Gulf War era veterans is a combination of environmental exposures and vaccine injuries. I posted a more detailed comment yesterday evening and that comment is no longer visible so I am going to keep this one brief. Hopefully the word keeps getting out the effects of Gulf War Illness so more veterans can benefit from possible health care treatments in the future. Thank you.

    • @n2bfw884
      @n2bfw884 Год назад +1

      Thank you for your service. I'm sorry to read you suffered those exposures and were damaged by them.

    • @David-cy7qv
      @David-cy7qv Год назад +1

      I went to the Buffalo VA last week for a series of ct scans and I have a multitude of nodules on my lungs, a tumor on my adrenal gland and Cirrhosis of the liver, which is surprising since I'm not a drinker. I have a visit with the pulmonary specialist next week.

  • @wesharris5528
    @wesharris5528 5 лет назад +21

    I am fighting this battle with the VA now. I was in theater from Aug. to Aug and went back for clean up. Given shots and pills and my stomach and bowels have never been the same. I am glad we have a voice in this fight for our just due. I am fighting this battle for my type one diabetic son that it has been found I am the one who gave this to him. NO DIABETICS in my family or my ex wife’s. Didn’t even know what it was. Coincidence I dont think so. I am so tired of my stomach problems and not being able to stray to far from a bathroom. Come on VA fix this please. When reassigned to a new duty station in 1993 is when I started noticing stomach problems. FIX THIS PLEASE!!!!!

    • @sul923
      @sul923 2 года назад

      What does the VA do, I have heard it is really hard to to get medical help from them in the situation of Gulf War Illness. What makes it so hard for veterans to get healthcare for this disease?

  • @chrissycat7883
    @chrissycat7883 5 лет назад +28

    Thank YOU. Gulf war syndrome hurts and wrecks families.

  • @elvinpena8788
    @elvinpena8788 3 года назад +4

    I served Navy (91-96), went to Gulf in 1994,-1995 not allowed to re-enlist after. I noticed something was happening to me after 2nd week of boot camp (shot time). i went to medical and a lab test showed EBV virus positive. Who knows what else was in me, but it kept getting worst slowly; but the worst started underway back from deployment. Diarrhea, Rhinitis(allergy / nose clogged up), fatigued, gastroenteritis(IBS/GERD), sleep disturbances, insomnia, APNEA, jitters painful joints and muscles, carpal tunnel, tendonitis, diabetes, heart failure, abnormal weight gain, and now my mind (ptsd) is starting to go too. I have all of the gulf war illness criteria even though I went there 3+ years after desert storm.

  • @gregkonikowski1035
    @gregkonikowski1035 3 года назад +6

    I am a gulf war veteran Cib holder with silver star. The alarms for chemicals went off every night because dod was blowing up munitions 4 miles awsay. It rained oil on me for weeks and the smoke i breathed in was thick. I have many many symptoms ptsd my feet hurt so bad and all my tendons and muscles are causing me pain. I took the pb pill mandatory or article 15 i have skin rashes and my feet swell too.

    • @tazz3663
      @tazz3663 3 года назад +1

      did they give you the experimental anthrax vaccines just before deployment? did you know that France refused them and are the only allied country who's troops do not suffer from gulf war syndrome.

  • @justdont2019
    @justdont2019 3 года назад +5

    Thank you for covering this important information. Our Nation owes many debts, including medical care and pensions, to our Soldiers.

  • @jasone8611
    @jasone8611 4 года назад +10

    February 2020. I’m going to share this. I still have problems and it’s almost 30 years later.

  • @nesra8786
    @nesra8786 3 года назад +10

    The hardest part of any war is figuring out who the real enemy is.

  • @GunnyMaiTai
    @GunnyMaiTai 5 лет назад +6

    I as well as my fellow Marine s thank you for bringing this information out to the public, it is so fustrating trying to get diagnosed. I have talked to my fellow Marines and we agree that we know something is wrong with our bodies but the doctors just dont know what to look for. I went to the symposium in Tampa last 2017 at the VA hospital where I receive my medical treatments.
    The first day of the war my gunner told me he was geting a reaction on his chemical tape, it had purple spots.... we called it in and was told it was just a false read. Also on day 3 of the ground war we heard the call on the radio "GAS, GAS, GAS....., WE KNEW IT WAS GO TIME, but after a couple of hours we noticed other units didnt have their mopp suits on. So what really happened? So many conflicting reports!!
    Semper Fi, Danny Snellgroves

  • @robertauld1334
    @robertauld1334 4 года назад +11

    I had polyps blocking 90% of my throat on my vocal cords. The doctors was surprised i didn't suffocate. Then shockrd it wasn't cancer. They think it was from the radiated battle field. I was also in the plum. My company's gas alarms went off . The manual detection kits came back positive. HQ said it was all false positives?

  • @debbiekestner911
    @debbiekestner911 3 года назад +5

    my husband spent days in the oil feilds got 2 types of luiekemia ptsd but it wasnt military related bullcrap he passed dec 10 99

  • @karlporath8904
    @karlporath8904 4 года назад +11

    I would love to talk with this Lady. I'm a Dessert Storm vet USAF transportation. I worked with remnants of an outfit called Blue Ball Express. We were still entering parts of the "neutral zone" late 91 early 92 and hauling away caches of American made "weapons" taking them to the port of Damon and loading them on a ship to hide our "sins". Nearly 30 years later I've decided that most of us Vets will be ignored as we continually drop in numbers until we have no more voice. There is a reason I have F-the VA on the back of my pickup here in Metro Detroit. They don't really want to help any of us.

    • @JC-11111
      @JC-11111 3 года назад

      Talking to her won't do anything except get you put in a TEDx talk 🤷

    • @sul923
      @sul923 2 года назад

      What does the VA do, I have heard it is really hard to to get medical help from them in the situation of Gulf War Illness. What makes it so hard for veterans to get healthcare for this disease?

    • @60eyewatcher
      @60eyewatcher 2 года назад

      Same here, call. I didn’t enter the theater until July 1991. I lived in Marin for 12 months and when I got to my next duty station, both the fourth and fifth digit on my left foot were completely dead. No nerve feeling at all and from there, the health problems have just escalated. Now I am almost incapacitated on some days and I have not had a real Quality of life since I was discharged and 94 .

  • @rogerrathbun444
    @rogerrathbun444 5 лет назад +4

    I was on the USS Wisconsin and in the first few days of the conflict and one day our chemical alarms went off twice in about a hour and we were told not to put on our masks. I learned the other day that our chemical indicator went off multiple times but our BMOW was ordered not to sound the ship alarm as they didn't want to panic the crew

  • @shanerr7252
    @shanerr7252 3 года назад +8

    Depleted uranium is used in tank anti tank sabot rounds because its extremely dense and when combined with tungsten holds together for long enough to penetrate deep armor

    • @truthfrees8616
      @truthfrees8616 3 года назад

      It causes horrific effects,every way.

  • @joehayward2631
    @joehayward2631 5 лет назад +15

    I was in 6th marine regiment we had to link up take our pill with a medic and the gunny standing watching including we had to open our mouth a show we swallowed. And it got worse from there

    • @ah-op1gt
      @ah-op1gt 3 года назад +4

      @@Thomas8892Q yep, watched taking pb and k-flex? Big antibiotic pill. I had a feeling by then they were going to lie about it so kept a partially used pack of pb as evidence

  • @ksmiley63
    @ksmiley63 3 года назад +3

    I am a Gulf War veteran who suffers from IBSD, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, PTSD, COPD, sleep apnea, depression, cognitive disorder, tremors, balance issues, asthma, lung nodules, and early onset dementia. I have been battling the VA for years over this. My ex-wife suffers from neurological disorders, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and crippling arthritis. The military needs to be held accountable for actions that have called so many to be sick. I to took all the pills and vaccinations. Was told if I didn’t I would get court martial for not following orders.

    • @sul923
      @sul923 2 года назад

      What does the VA do, I have heard it is really hard to to get medical help from them in the situation of Gulf War Illness. What makes it so hard for veterans to get healthcare for this disease?

    • @Dud-in9iu
      @Dud-in9iu 2 года назад

      @@sul923 It is probably the fact that there are so many who are sick. The VA would pay a claim of 100% disability to each of them. Approx 200,000 people, at $3,000/mo for life is a ton of money; at least $7.2 milion/year for this illness alone.

  • @eicrusade6161
    @eicrusade6161 4 месяца назад

    Amputated Lives by Alison Johnson is a good book on the subject. Also Wired for Healing by Annie Hopper has helped thousands.

  • @txgt6523
    @txgt6523 3 года назад +2

    very proud of you to bring this up

  • @thomasc5817
    @thomasc5817 3 года назад +5

    Gulf war vet myself. I no longer have the energy to fight for help. I just want to die now. Please God take me.
    US Government... You win. But the house always wins right? 🙄.
    My will to live is gone. The pain is too much.

    • @aliceferrier7480
      @aliceferrier7480 3 года назад +2

      I don't know what to say. I read your comment and see your pain. I care. Love to you.

    • @thomasc5817
      @thomasc5817 Год назад

      @@aliceferrier7480ne year later.
      A fellow vet saved me.
      I'm now 100% P&T disabled veteran with full monthly compensation. Collect SSDI as well.
      Getting VA medical and dental Healthcare now.
      Medically retired at 51.
      Gave up my career unfortunately.
      But, I am compensated well enough from the VA and Social Security Administration to be retired and finally concentrate on my health with the years I have left.👍

  • @wayne487msc
    @wayne487msc 3 года назад +2

    I believe there is a link between inhalation of the gulf war oil fire smoke and a disease
    called cutaneous t-cell lymphoma. Some military fuel handlers have come down with this disease, abbreviated as CTL. Subtle white cell damage may create many symptoms considering the nature of all the variations in the body's white cell enzymes. Maybe over 400 different symptoms. A baseline study needs to be done on the white cells enzyme response to determine if this damage mode exists and the nature of such damage.

    • @stacyshangraw8021
      @stacyshangraw8021 2 месяца назад

      I also was a fuel handler and have multi system of debilitating diseases

  • @russellm7530
    @russellm7530 6 лет назад +25

    Why so few views? So sad

    • @jasone8611
      @jasone8611 4 года назад +2

      Russell Maxwell because of the RUclips algorithm. They don’t want this message out there.

    • @thomasc5817
      @thomasc5817 3 года назад +1

      Because many of us are dying or killing ourselves.

    • @ciscokidfab7595
      @ciscokidfab7595 6 месяцев назад +1

      So few views, likes and comment?

  • @johnmiller4852
    @johnmiller4852 5 лет назад +9

    Why does this video have no comments/views. All of the comments are new

  • @rogerrathbun444
    @rogerrathbun444 5 лет назад +5

    I was on the Wisconsin in the gulf and our chemical alarms were going off and we were told it was a false alarm.

    • @gunsmoke6230
      @gunsmoke6230 4 года назад +1

      Roger Rathbun I’m sure they were on the Ranger too they just kept it quiet...

    • @rogerrathbun444
      @rogerrathbun444 4 года назад

      @@gunsmoke6230 I've since learned that our detection alarms were going off multiple times but the BMOTW was ordered to stop sounding the ships alarm so as not to panic the crew

  • @sirwavell
    @sirwavell 4 года назад +5

    A drug cocktail classified as secret and only known by the codewords Victor, Porton, Cutter, and Biological, all of which were imposed with no informed consent.

  • @danielwatters502
    @danielwatters502 3 года назад +3

    my question is why don't the people living in the region at the time suffer from the same symptoms if they were exposed to similar conditions? what is the one difference? the US troops were exposed to vaccines

    • @personhuman2239
      @personhuman2239 3 года назад +2

      But people in Iraq do suffer these conditions? They have one of the world's highest infant mortality rates, rates of birth defects, and rates of certain cancers. Very obviously it's the depleted uranium.

  • @thorfinthorfin3010
    @thorfinthorfin3010 3 года назад +2

    What about US Army troops who got the mandatory Anthrax Vaccine in basic training, but served stateside and have the symptoms of Gulf War Syndrome?

  • @txgt4463
    @txgt4463 5 лет назад +7

    People forget

  • @candyman5749
    @candyman5749 2 года назад +1

    Interesting... In the late 1990's the flu shot was administered on a job that I was working free of charge. This was when I began experiencing autoimmune disorders. I abruptly began feeling tired and sweating profusely. Then I started having bloody diarrhea that has never stopped. Then my joints began swelling from inflammatory arthritis. Today I have to give myself injections to calm down my immune system. I can't help but wonder how life would be different had I never taken this vaccine.

  • @johnbates3222
    @johnbates3222 3 года назад +1

    I've got a lot of these symptoms and all I did was received the vaccines if you would like a list PM me

  • @danashannon8234
    @danashannon8234 4 года назад +3

    I think it's all of these things.

  • @txgt4463
    @txgt4463 5 лет назад +1

    Ty

  • @joehayward2631
    @joehayward2631 5 лет назад +4

    Yes we had chemical tape we put on us and on equipment while out in field the tape would change as chemical weapons gases were in our area we were told the tape and the FOX chemical vehicle were wrong the tape was collected destroyed and the armored fox vehicle was gone. I came back with medical issues I had cameras stuck in my rear more tests but doctor said you got something from over there but we will never know.

    • @maureenkidd6629
      @maureenkidd6629 4 года назад +1

      The powers-that-be are keeping it a secret - the bastards.

  • @larryjohnson6400
    @larryjohnson6400 3 года назад +2

    Can this cause a Massive Venterial Hernia and a 6" Disi Recti?

  • @minutemark
    @minutemark 3 года назад +1

    While I can appreciate the sentiment and motivation of this speech. She conflated many issues (for example, she called Goldenhar syndrome, Guillain-Barré syndrome). I fear that her mistakes, in an age of rabid fact-checking, could bring discredit to her entire efforts.

  • @jasonreviews
    @jasonreviews 5 лет назад +7

    it's ciprofloxin poisoning.

    • @christopherbeasley5533
      @christopherbeasley5533 5 лет назад

      What is that

    • @wolfspritzer9253
      @wolfspritzer9253 5 лет назад +7

      @@christopherbeasley5533 its an antibiotic that can literally destroy your body, bascially all soldiers were prescribed during the gulf war to inoculate from anthrax.

    • @cstickles
      @cstickles 3 года назад

      @@wolfspritzer9253 OMG, they gave that to me while deployed in the Coast Guard for a pink eye type infection. Wondering if that being it my records would help me with seeking help with detoxification.

    • @elvinpena8788
      @elvinpena8788 3 года назад +1

      @@cstickles be vigilant of symptoms, GERD, IBS, stomach issues, sleep issues, rhinitis(hay fever), pain-full swelling joints, patches and rashes on your skin.

  • @glennmrosek3358
    @glennmrosek3358 4 года назад +3

    Pretty accurate, apart from stating that DU is a "Nuclear Weapon".

    • @Luke-rt9bx
      @Luke-rt9bx 4 года назад

      Glenn Mrosek isn’t it though? I’m not trying to pick an argument I’m just wandering I thought nuclear warheads where usually made from uranium?

    • @jamesluck2969
      @jamesluck2969 3 года назад

      I wont suggest calling depleted uranium baring weapons as a nuclear weapon, if we are going with anything that is radioactive as a nuclear weapon then we need to set a base line for what activity counts as "nuclear".
      If we are going off of just decaying then the lead we use for bullets are nuclear weapons, as lead is in fact radioactive. Just not to the degree of artificially purified U235

    • @glennmrosek3358
      @glennmrosek3358 3 года назад

      @@jamesluck2969 I would suggest that anything that is deliberately chosen, or enhanced, for it's "nuclear" potential/properties would be above that basline. DU ammo apparently has less than a 3rd of the radioactivity that is found in natural uranium deposits. So unless you were in a job that had an abundance of exposure to DU (Tank loader etc.), then I think it's very unlikely that it contributes soley to GWS. Although, maybe it exacerbates undelying issues, functions as a trigger by increasing a "threshold", or serves as an adjuvant in some way?

  • @mmmotives7452
    @mmmotives7452 5 лет назад +8

    It was a terrible experience....VA is clueless!

  • @txgt8704
    @txgt8704 5 лет назад +2

    And Greg

  • @giovannicano2889
    @giovannicano2889 5 лет назад +3

    Not by Saddam hussein but by iraqi soldiers saddam didnt give that order to burn oil fields

  • @cosmoevents21st56
    @cosmoevents21st56 3 года назад +8

    Russians don't do this to their troops. The Chinese don't do this to their troops. The Iranians don't do this to their troops. North Korea doesn't do this to their troops. Syria doesn't do this to their troops. The United States well................

    • @94SexyStang
      @94SexyStang 3 года назад +1

      YES they do........they are just better at hiding it. And they live in a dictatorship, so it's RARE anything gets out.

    • @cosmoevents21st56
      @cosmoevents21st56 3 года назад +1

      @@94SexyStang For your info the U.S. and much of Europe lives under dictatorship. If you think you're free in those regions think again.

    • @Dud-in9iu
      @Dud-in9iu 2 года назад

      Go ahead on over to North Korea, Syria, or China and try to speak your mind or refuse what the government tells you to do. See how long you last before you end up in prison or a prison torture camp. Don't be one of those unappreciative westerners who complains about your country. You are free to go to North Korea and try out your theory any time.

  • @txgt8704
    @txgt8704 5 лет назад +1

    Everyday

  • @cipher940
    @cipher940 2 года назад +2

    Vaccination a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal delusions current in our time. Gandhi.

  • @victorgarza8934
    @victorgarza8934 4 года назад +2

    So little views smh

  • @txgt8704
    @txgt8704 5 лет назад +2

    Because of my research I chose not to have children

  • @davidhamilton5817
    @davidhamilton5817 Год назад +1

    And they still don't do anything.

  • @voosum
    @voosum 5 лет назад +1

    i used to live in buffalo

  • @rhondawillock9743
    @rhondawillock9743 2 года назад +1

    Was I in your war super hero

  • @txgt8704
    @txgt8704 5 лет назад

    My cheeks hurt that's how

  • @txgt4463
    @txgt4463 5 лет назад +1

    What is your number?

  • @latetodagame1892
    @latetodagame1892 2 года назад +1

    ?

  • @heyitsjaceypenne
    @heyitsjaceypenne 7 месяцев назад

    Cipro

  • @gregw834
    @gregw834 4 года назад +1

    USS Thomas C Hart 1092 fast frigate Special Forces and rescue swimmer

  • @Ibrahim-Ibn-Salah
    @Ibrahim-Ibn-Salah 2 месяца назад

    Curse of Iraq

  • @MadaraUchiha-gi1se
    @MadaraUchiha-gi1se 2 года назад

    Who cares