HerkEng
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Sorry for the re-post but I thought this would be better fitted in this section.
Will a medical disqualification clip my wings forever?
I have been DNIF for 9 months now and I have one more doc to see before they send me up against a MEB. I was planning on getting out and do some more school and get some pilot ratings...
If I get booted from flying in the military, will it clip my wings forever? Is there a chance that I could still be a pilot flying airlines?
Ok about the pain:
Well the pain started Jan of 2003. I was deployed and thought it was the bad (very bad) food at Manas and had bad gas. Then I thought it was the bad Cots. I said nothing until I got home and waited for two months, the pain never went away.
I was grounded (DNIF) because of lack of the ability to get crew rest. I only get the pain when I sleep. It is located in the upper middle back and also I feel it right below my rib cage. It is bad enough to wake me up and once it starts the only thing to ease the pain is to sit up or stand up...laying down just makes it worse. I have seen a GI, had many MRIs taken, seen a couple of neurologists. Taken many pills and nothing has stopped the pain. It is not caused by the intake of fatty foods (It isn't a gall stone or anything wrong with the bladder from what they all have seen). They did find on my MRIs that there are 3 vertebrae with a much different color (they are thinking it is arthritis or the start of deterioration of the vertebrae itself) I also did a sleep test to see if I had Apnea. The flight Docs are sending me to see a rheumatologist here soon...and I feel that this is my last hope. Well at least for the military.
Also, I will add, it does not happen every time I lay down. I would say on the average it happens 4 or 5 times a week.
what if it gets fixed? or the pain goes away? Will that hurt my chances later?
Will a medical disqualification clip my wings forever?
I have been DNIF for 9 months now and I have one more doc to see before they send me up against a MEB. I was planning on getting out and do some more school and get some pilot ratings...
If I get booted from flying in the military, will it clip my wings forever? Is there a chance that I could still be a pilot flying airlines?
Ok about the pain:
Well the pain started Jan of 2003. I was deployed and thought it was the bad (very bad) food at Manas and had bad gas. Then I thought it was the bad Cots. I said nothing until I got home and waited for two months, the pain never went away.
I was grounded (DNIF) because of lack of the ability to get crew rest. I only get the pain when I sleep. It is located in the upper middle back and also I feel it right below my rib cage. It is bad enough to wake me up and once it starts the only thing to ease the pain is to sit up or stand up...laying down just makes it worse. I have seen a GI, had many MRIs taken, seen a couple of neurologists. Taken many pills and nothing has stopped the pain. It is not caused by the intake of fatty foods (It isn't a gall stone or anything wrong with the bladder from what they all have seen). They did find on my MRIs that there are 3 vertebrae with a much different color (they are thinking it is arthritis or the start of deterioration of the vertebrae itself) I also did a sleep test to see if I had Apnea. The flight Docs are sending me to see a rheumatologist here soon...and I feel that this is my last hope. Well at least for the military.
Also, I will add, it does not happen every time I lay down. I would say on the average it happens 4 or 5 times a week.
what if it gets fixed? or the pain goes away? Will that hurt my chances later?
