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Cass | 4 years ago

The article mentions that one patient has an unexplained brain injury comparable to that caused by the shockwave of an explosion. I'm sure the embassy isn't going to release this info to the press, but I'd really like to know what kind of injury we're talking about here, whether it's something that could just occur spontaneously (I mean, if we're talking intracerebral bleeding, that does just happen sometimes), and if it's been tested for or seen in anyone else complaining of these symptoms.

There's a HUGE difference between "some people are getting unexplained headaches and brainfog" (yeah, so are half my patients right now, during this time of unprecedented stress) and "some people are getting unexplained brain bleeds" (YIKES)

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nnlsoccer|4 years ago

It appears they’re referring to Breachers Syndrome or something very similar. With service members who were exposed to small repetitive explosions, some studies have found astroglial scarring between the white and gray matter of the brain. Essentially shearing forces pass through the tissue, the tissues move at different rates because of the difference in densities which leads to tissue damage at the interface. Causes symptoms somewhat similar to CTE