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    Clonodine Stopped Working, Prazosin An Option?

    Been there with all kinds of meds not even for PTSD but f*** me dead try them anyway. I suffered from night terrors horrible I slammed my 2 yr old into a wall. Time to wake up!!! They can give you all kinds of meds but you have to come to terms with everything. Time to say I'm not your ginnea...
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    Native American Healing

    Growing up with a father that served 2 tours in nam and 26.5 yrs total he was the first one to pull me up and say you got PTSD. It was hard to take advice from him because he raised me to be tough and I didn't want to show him I was weak. I got help and as I went farther and farther I started to...
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    Native American Healing

    I'm fine just dealing with the medical part of things. Had to put the PTSD on hold in some ways. Sad part is sometimes I wish the med part would get me so people would know that the PTSD didn't get me. At the same time dealing with the with the polycethemia and being made half out of titanium...
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    Native American Healing

    The Spokane VA has a sweat lodge. I have sweated there many times. We used to have an old sweat that was surrounded by tin but the VA needed more parking so they built us a top of the line sweat building and we put up traditional sweat lodges inside. Even as an inpatient for PTSD we were aloud...
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    Another Aussie Joining The Fold

    Welcome, Bobby
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    Hello

    Welcome!
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    Where Are You From?

    Sad to see that 12b's bump themselves off. I was told in a fire fight I had 3 second life expectancy because my job was between the enemy and the infantry. I went through combat lifesaver coarse when they still taught ivies and such thankfully I never had to use it. It did keep me somewhat...
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    Where Are You From?

    Sarg, Never took you serious! Just was joking about my job. The ones that made airfields and compounds were what we called heavy junk dozers and stuff. We breached mine fields and road blocks for the inf. sappers we will pave the way and in the old days of somalia command detinated mines. We...
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    Where Are You From?

    Sarg I was a combat engineer and we leveled a lot of things. Sappers and c4!
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    Where Are You From?

    Army started as 63y1p then clinton downsized. Ended up working as a 12b charlie company 3rd engineers as a sapper in the 24th inf. somalia the mog 93 till march 94. I volunteered for the job change it was more fun than being a mechanic on trac vehicles.
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    Ptsd Music Playlist

    Thanks, Spock
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    Ptsd Music Playlist

    Don't know if it has been put on the huge list but Unwell by matchbox twenty is my theme song.
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    Your Top 10 Movies

    Where the red fern grows, The man from snowy river, The Jason Bourne series, Saving private Ryan, Hildalgo, Open range, Gladiator, The transporter series, warped times Black hawk Down, and for laughs Cheech and Chong. It is hard to think of movies because the way they make me feel is different...
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    New Squid On The Block

    Welcome Master Chief! Even though your a squid! Liked your honest straight to the point intro. The squid thing was a joke brother. I respect that you stuck a full retirement! I am also glad you joined us. My Dad was a lifer. Congrats on your retirement. You will enjoy being here everyone is in...
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    What Makes You :) Today

    There are all kinds of sights for researching someones military history. You usually can tell without a web sight! Had a run in with one where my mom lives went to the pub/ restaurant and it started getting real loud and this one fellow who is new to the area said something because I would not...
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    What Makes You :) Today

    Mine was Tuesday. I never celebrate but my mom covinced me to go to the casino. lost on all the slots I tried. Don't my birthday is my lucky day.
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    What Makes You :) Today

    Beautiful baby!
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    Added Some More Features

    Anthony this sight has always been good enough for me but I am glad you stay on top of everything! While my dad was dieing I was out for a bit and with all my health problems I a not as active as I should. But thank you for your hard work on what has been my safe place for years. Thanks again...
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    Watching For Other Antagonizers

    Jimmy, I think both of my babies are doing fine. Me and Seren split up in the beginning of the tear and I haven't got to see them since. She got hooked back on pain meds I blew up. I took the kids from her last year and made her go to treatment. She got on saboxin and made it three visits and...
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    What Makes You :) Today

    Spock that was awesome! I'm working on that mentality myself as best I can with my illness. No energy and lots of problems from my polycethemia but I force myself to walk 3 to 4 times a week even if it is to the pub and back after a cold one. Its one mile and it forces me to socialize instead of...
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    First Post

    Welcome brother!
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    Watching For Other Antagonizers

    I thank all of you for your good words. I am trying to learn how to live with all of it together. It is hard because I am getting panic attacks from night terrors old ones I thought were gone and new ones for all the new shit. I still have something left but not a lot. Since last April when I...
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    Watching For Other Antagonizers

    Thank brothers! I will be alright. The only thing I fight right now is that waking in the mourning is a disappointment. One of the causes of the poly is radiation in the last three years I have had 20 to 30 MRI's,cat scans with contrast, and many X-rays. Damn I wish they would have let me die in...
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    Watching For Other Antagonizers

    I was diagnosed with polycethemia about 3 1/2 months ago. This is a type of blood cancer where your bone marrow produces to many red cells and they may be immature and causes them not to carry oxygen, and causes clots. Since my first major hospitalization 5 weeks in V.A. P.T.S.D. unit and them...
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    The Nightmare Is Over! How I Did It......

    In somalia they spoke english when they wanted to. I came home march 28th 1994 the presidents deadline for all U.S. troops out in the middle of the night. I was on a sapper team got two weeks debrief and sent straight on leave not to talk to anybody and still got the baby killer shit in my face...
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