Here is a brief summary of my experience with the Desert Storm Syndrome. Returned from Desert Storm after serving with a Joint Special Operations Unit in various capacities in various locations throughout the Southwest Asia theater of operations, including flying in several missions. I was tested for various diseases, including malaria, but all tests proved negative. After two weeks in the hospital my fever subsided, as did the stomach cramps and joint pains. I was released undiagnosed and about forty pounds lighter.
Symptoms occur randomly, without warning and vary with intensity.
This antibiotic doxycycline has caused zero side effects and every time the symptoms occur and I take the deoxycycline the symptoms are gone in 2 to 3 days. The symptoms still reoccur, however at a significantly lower level of intensity. I was treated for all symptoms by the military prior to Feb 1994 with absolutely no results. The symptoms would simply diminish on their own and reoccur at will. However, after flying in aircraft usually the symptoms were more intense.