I just found this place. Thanks for being here.
I've been searching for answers since my recent diagnosis of MGUS. I am a 45 year old Desert Storm veteran. I mention my service because there appears to be a connection to that and multiple myeloma, as well as hypothyroidism, which I also have. Any advice or direction on these connections would be appreciated.
Prayers for each of you, Dino
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Re: New member DinoNC
Welcome to the forum, DinoNC. I think you'll find the forum a very helpful source of information and support.
You are probably aware of this, but there is a long-term study being done by the Veterans Administration looking at health issues among Gulf War veterans. The home page for the study has links to research articles that have been published using data from the study. Here's a link to that page:
http://www.publichealth.va.gov/epidemiology/studies/gulf-war-longitudinal-study.asp
From what I've read, the thinking seems to be that the War exposed a lot of the veterans to various toxins which, in the longer term, may increase their risk of coming down with blood cancers such as multiple myeloma. I am not sure, however, whether any studies have shown that such cancers are actually occurring more often in the veterans compared, for example, to other veterans or the general population.
This study from 2006 looked at some of the initial research done into potential disease risks among Gulf War veterans, and it mentions what I wrote above about the risk of blood cancers such as myeloma:
M Brown, "Toxicological assessments of Gulf War veterans," Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, April 2006 (full text at PubMed)
On the issue of myeloma and thyroid disease, this forum thread has an extended discussion about the subject:
"Thyroid hormones and multiple myeloma" (started Sep 20, 2014)
You may be able to find a few other discussions in the forum by searching on either "thyroid" or "hypothyroidism" in the forum search box.
If you would like help understanding some of your lab results, including which results may be the most important to track, just let us know. We're glad to be of help.
You are probably aware of this, but there is a long-term study being done by the Veterans Administration looking at health issues among Gulf War veterans. The home page for the study has links to research articles that have been published using data from the study. Here's a link to that page:
http://www.publichealth.va.gov/epidemiology/studies/gulf-war-longitudinal-study.asp
From what I've read, the thinking seems to be that the War exposed a lot of the veterans to various toxins which, in the longer term, may increase their risk of coming down with blood cancers such as multiple myeloma. I am not sure, however, whether any studies have shown that such cancers are actually occurring more often in the veterans compared, for example, to other veterans or the general population.
This study from 2006 looked at some of the initial research done into potential disease risks among Gulf War veterans, and it mentions what I wrote above about the risk of blood cancers such as myeloma:
M Brown, "Toxicological assessments of Gulf War veterans," Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, April 2006 (full text at PubMed)
On the issue of myeloma and thyroid disease, this forum thread has an extended discussion about the subject:
"Thyroid hormones and multiple myeloma" (started Sep 20, 2014)
You may be able to find a few other discussions in the forum by searching on either "thyroid" or "hypothyroidism" in the forum search box.
If you would like help understanding some of your lab results, including which results may be the most important to track, just let us know. We're glad to be of help.
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