| Chip Orange 2004-10-03, 10:17 pm |
| You would need to google on "agent orange" and "mutogenic" (sp?) (which
means causes damage to the dna which is passed on).
"nmlashley" <nmlashley@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:6cd80a0e.0402221329.1aa63097@posting.google.com...
> I am a 27-year old child of a Vietnam vet. When I was 17, I was
> diagnosed with a severe case of a common chronic, denerative,
> periphreal neuropathy called Charcot-Marie-Tooth. The 3 known genes
> that cause CMT could not be found in a biopsy done when I was 17, so
> it was only by process of elimination that I was diagnosed with CMT.
> The only evidence to support that I have CMT is that my sister and
> father (the vet) also showed sub-symptomatic periphreal neuropathy. I
> am what my doctors referred to as a "one in a million" case as far as
> the severity of CMT at such a young age.
>
> I have been legally disabled since I was a minor and my ability to
> function is dramatically limited and continues to decline. Could the
> severity of my neuropathy be linked to Agent Orange (which my father
> was exposed to)?
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