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Chronic Health Conditions Discussion and Support

tavalon

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14. Everytime I see your handle,

Reply to Downwinder (Reply #9)

Wed Jun 5, 2013, 11:12 AM

Jun 2013

I think about my mother being pregnant with me and then we stayed for 6 months after I was born, in Beatty, Nevada. I think they had finished the testing by 1963, but I wonder what after effects might have lingered and whether the multiple autoimmune screw ups I have might somehow be linked to that. Certainly would be hard to prove.

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Only MS, NMO came back negative! [View all] LiberalLoner Apr 2013 OP

Don't know much about NMO. Any word on your treatment? Downwinder Apr 2013 #1

I want an orange tshirt that says that! LiberalLoner Apr 2013 #2

They say with MS you should attain 75% of expected Downwinder Apr 2013 #3

I'm sorry you have this too. LiberalLoner Apr 2013 #4

Gift of my government. Multiple lesions, both hemispheres. Downwinder Apr 2013 #5

Wow....you really got it bad...did you ever have really bad lower back pain, LiberalLoner Apr 2013 #6

Oh when you say gift of govt, you mean Gulf War or....? LiberalLoner Apr 2013 #7

Nevada Atomic Bomb tests. Downwinder Apr 2013 #9

Yikes. Hence your user name.... LiberalLoner Apr 2013 #10

Everytime I see your handle, tavalon Jun 2013 #14

Most everything is about cancer. Downwinder Jun 2013 #15

They have medications for the muscle spasms. Downwinder Apr 2013 #8

Oh....my brain lesions are minor but my thoracic spine is awful. LiberalLoner Apr 2013 #11

Just Curious ProfessorGAC Jun 2013 #16

They're a lot better at MS than they used to be, that's for sure Warpy Apr 2013 #12

One of my problems is that I now have permanent disability from multiple attacks of LiberalLoner Apr 2013 #13