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(Message started by: toolong on Aug 28^th, 2004, 12:03pm)

Title: Agent orange
Post by toolong on Aug 28^th, 2004, 12:03pm

As you can see being a newbie I've got more questions than answers.Does anyone know of a connection between the vets that served in Vietnam and the devil?I spent 18 mos.in that god forsaken place,and agent orange was everywhere.The friggin Gov.said no problem.But....just wondering.David

Title: Re: Agent orange
Post by Jonny on Aug 28^th, 2004, 12:06pm

Are you serious?

99.99% of the people here never stepped foot in Nam.

::)

..........................jonny

Title: Re: Agent orange
Post by Prense on Aug 28^th, 2004, 12:35pm

I've never been to Nam...

Title: Re: Agent orange
Post by KanKan on Aug 28^th, 2004, 12:49pm

Im gona have to also go with the no-connection option.

Title: Re: Agent orange
Post by farmboy on Aug 28^th, 2004, 12:56pm

Heck i have never been there either

" had and unckle once that was there"

Title: Re: Agent orange
Post by floridian on Aug 28^th, 2004, 12:57pm

Several studies have been done on 2,4-D and the nervous system. It can affect serotonin, dopamine, nmda-glutamate, and several other neurotransmitters. It disrupts the immune system and affects cell membranes. It's not clear how to transfer these studies from test tubes or animals to humans. The best answer is that we don't know.

99% of the people with diseases that agent orange can trigger never set foot in Viet Nam. According to VA, the 9 diseases that are known or presumed to be triggered include chloracne, Hodgkin's disease, multiple myeloma, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, porphyria cutanea tarda, respiratory cancers (lung, bronchus, larynx and trachea), soft-tissue sarcoma, acute and subacute peripheral neuropathy and prostate, Cluster headaches are not on that list.

Over 3 million Americans served in the Indochina theatre, although fewer were exposed. 270,000 Vets are part of the agent orange registry. Not sure how good the VA was at looking for and finding CH in the registry.

http://www.va.gov/pressrel/99fsao.htm

Title: Re: Agent orange
Post by vietvet2tours on Aug 28^th, 2004, 1:05pm

V.A. told me that my skin fallin off wasn't from bein soaked inna shit.

Title: Re: Agent orange
Post by BobG on Aug 28^th, 2004, 1:20pm

During my tour of Vietnam I was in areas that had been sprayed a year or so earlier but I had no direct contact with agent orange. My clusters started 6 years after I left Vietnam. In my case I do not believe agent orange had anything to do with it.
But, we have a clusterhead here in Vegas that has physical problems traced to agent orange. In his case I don't know.

Title: Re: Agent orange
Post by Melissa on Aug 28^th, 2004, 1:24pm

Only connection with 'Nam I have, is my father served there. (before i was born of course)

mel

Title: Re: Agent orange
Post by caseybarton on Aug 29^th, 2004, 3:50am

My dad served in Vietnam too. While I don't think that my CH has anything to do with Vietnam or Agent Orange, I do believe that this is all my dad's fault. See, I look like my dad. And people say to me: "If I had a head that looked like yours it would ache too!"

I knew it was his fault.

Casey

Title: Re: Agent orange
Post by BobG on Aug 29^th, 2004, 11:51am

on 08/29/04 at 03:50:58, caseybarton wrote:

"If I had a head that looked like yours it would ache too!"

I knew it was his fault.

LMAO. There's our problem. We have heads like of fathers. We're all too ugly. ::) Uglyness causes clusters.
I'm going to find a pretty man to adopt me. ;;D