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cruiser wrote:

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Fibromyalgia is a condition that is presumptive to service in Southwest Asia. If you have it and you served in Southwest Asia, VA will grant service connection. It sounds like the doc said that you don't have fibromyalgia. If you have stronger medical evidence saying that you do, you should submit it or appeal the decision that denied the claim. VA cannot deny it IF YOU HAVE IT. Sounds like VA is saying that you don't. Your denial letter should tell you exactly why it was denied.

And even if service connection was denied for fibromyalgia on the basis that the diagnosis is not confirmed, whatever symptoms that you have and are documented must be service connected as an undiagnosed illness, and Gulf War Syndrome is not a diagnosis, if the symptoms cannot be associated with a specific diagnosed illness. VA does this every day and there is no effort being made to deny benefits. There is apparently more going on here than you are either understanding or are aware of. I say this because the way you are describing what has happened really isn't consistent with how VA handles these things.

And finally, as far as the anthrax vaccine; this is just a vaccine like any other vaccine. It has potential, and well known, side effects and complications just like any other vaccine such as the flu vaccine which can have severe implications in rare cases. When the decision was made to vaccinate service men and women going to the Gulf Theater in an effort to prevent anthrax in the event WMDs were utilized by the enemy, some doctors questioned the effectiveness of this because the type of anthrax that would be used in war would be inhalational anthrax and it was unknown as to whether the vaccine would prevent this type of anthrax poisoning. In other words, using the anthrax vaccine as a preventative measure against inhalational anthrax was experimental because they didn't know if it would work or not.

As soon as this word "experimental" got out into the public it started a hysteria over the vaccination. The vaccination itself is the same one that has been used with great success for many years and there was nothing experimental about it's use, it was only experimental because no one knew if it would actually protect anyone from inhalational anthrex poisoning.

Consider for example the flu vaccine that I mentioned. What if it is time for my annual flu shot and they discover a new strain of flu and it is unknown whether the flu shot will protect me from that particular strain. That doesn't mean that makes the flu shot any more or less what it has always been, it just means that it might not protect me from that particular strain of flu.

Like I said, there can be complications from any vaccine. Your doctor will be aware of the possible complications of the anthrax vaccine and if he/she can show that you suffer from any of them VA will grant service connection. They do it all the time. But like I also said, if you have any disabling symptoms that are not diagnosed or shown to be part of a diagnosed illness, it won't matter about the anthrax vaccine because VA will service connect them under the undiagnosed illness regulation.

Cruiser

Gunsmith65 wrote:

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pgwvet wrote:

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ALS is also for gulfwar vets. Most are gone, but a vet GW vet with ALS is handled different then any other claim in the system.

ALS? What is ALS?

Veterans deployed to the Southwest Asia Theater of Operations from August 2, 1990, to July 31, 1991 Individuals diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)/Lou Gehrig's disease are encouraged to apply for disability compensation.