Reply To: Meet Our New Forum Moderator – Shawna Barnes

[Community Member]

Thanks for your service, and your leadership navigating this MG journey. I was diagnosed in 2016, 20 yrs after leaving a USAF career in 1996, and 25 yrs since Desert Shield/Storm deployment. So I don’t have a nexus to service connection, and was denied disability compensation in 2019, although the VA carries me on ABHOBP registry, and treats my MG.

I’m achr + with no thymoma, my gMG symptoms are mild to moderate and pretty stable, my MG ADL score stays between 9 – 12, my current daily meds are: 6ea 30mg P-tabs and 4ea 500mg Cellcept. IVIG every 90 days.