@currer , i have ASIA syndrome of shoenfeld after swine H1N1 flu vaccin PANDEMRIX wich contain squalene AS03 and tocopherol (vit E)
i have exactly the same illness than your US SOLDIERS in first gulf war , all symptoms , hypogonadism: totall impotence , heart disorder, tiredness, myalgia, artralgia, headaches , gastro intestinal disorder, urinary problem........
i have the diagnose of ME/CFS since 2010 in france, i tried to meet Kogelnil team in mountain view to cure with rituxan this ME after flu vaccin.
OMI saw i have not biomarkers known in our patients , all have low NK cell in innate immune system also patients sick after a vaccine!!
doctor kaufman says me , i'm alone with these differences,
i leaved with a ME woman some month and i saw that many differences exist between ME and GULF WAR ILLNESS.
she obtain rituxan therapy in omi and feel better now after few month (5)
for me its not same , rituxan help me only on inflamatory disorder and not on artralgia, myalgia, fatigue and sleep disorder, i can say it worse me more than it can help me
in my blood test , the NK Lymph before RTX was at 24% for a range to 10 to 22%
after 5 doses courses of 1 gr and 12 month later,
NK cells were to 38%
with an hyperLymphocitoses
high T cell count
i thiink to be alone on this PR forum with this illness in relation, with squalen adjuvant injuries, its true than gulf war illness is in relation with anthrax vaccines with squalen MF59 adjuvant , they received 6 doses of this experimental vaccine, 1/3 came back sick with this disease, and other as narcolespy, all autoimmune diseases , soldiers deployed or no deployed !
in 2010 , GSK laboratorie make a terrible error , tried squalen in flu pandemia vaccines , many civilian , young, in very good health feel sick , just few days after the shoot
GSK and the WHO , refused to admit our disease, i 'm in contact with all veterans of gulf war , and we are in same condition, we 'll dying in some years , in average between 6 to 8 years for severe form , more for all , doctor baraniuk explain MRI studies give two family or form of GWS , moderate or severe in relation with brain area destroyed .
in fact rituxan did not improvment for us
i want to add that myofasciite a macrophages induce by aluminium adjuvant is not the same illness
also, many people received diagnose of ME/CFS after a shoot vaccine, but in fact these person are just sufferer by ASIA syndrom of shoenfeld and THEY DONT included in clinical trial for ME/CFS
i think its the reason that only 2/3 of people in these studies improve after rituxan therapy and not 1/3 because they are not sick with ME /CFS disease