Conversation with silverformie at 2006-08-23 09:11:41 on The Evil Couch (aim)
(09:11:41) SilverFormie: Hello, are you there?
(09:13:16) The Evil Couch: Who is this?
(09:13:34) SilverFormie: Sir, this is Sixxr, from ArmyRanger.com
(09:14:41) SilverFormie: Rabbity sent me to you because I had a medical question about recruitment.
(09:15:06) The Evil Couch: I'm not a medic
(09:15:24) The Evil Couch: You've looked around in the recruitment forum?
(09:15:30) SilverFormie: Yes sir
(09:16:33) SilverFormie: Sir,I wouldn't waste your time if I had already found an answer.
(09:16:35) The Evil Couch: Stop sir'ing me.
(09:16:44) SilverFormie: sorry
(09:16:47) The Evil Couch: What's your question?
(09:18:47) The Evil Couch: What's your question?
(09:20:07) SilverFormie: I've had asthma, since I was 10, and about a year ago I grew out of it, for the past year I haven't had any issues with it and haven't had to take any of my meds. I was wondering when I enlist, will my past with asthma make me an imidiate no go, or will they test me to see if I still have it, I have never been hospitalized. But also if it doesn't affect me should I just lie about it?
(09:22:46) The Evil Couch: I thought you said you searched for an answer
(09:22:53) The Evil Couch: http://www.armyranger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=2356
(09:23:47) The Evil Couch: Section 2-23. Lungs, chest wall, pleura, and mediastinum
The causes for rejection for appointment, enlistment, and induction are:
d. Asthma (ICD-9 code 493), including reactive airway disease, exercise induced bronchospasm or asthmatic bronchitis, reliably diagnosed at any age. Reliable diagnostic criteria should consist of any of the following elements:
(1) Substantiated history of cough, wheeze, and/or dyspnea thatpersists or recurs over a prolonged period of time, generally more than6 months.
(2) If the diagnosis of asthma is in doubt, a test for reversibleairflow obstruction (greater than a 15 percent increase in forcedexpiratory volume in 1 second (FEVI) following administration of aninhaled bronchodilator) or airway hyperactivity (exaggerated decreasein airflow induced by standard bronchoprovocation challenge such asmethacholine inhalation or a demonstration of exercise-inducedbronchospasm) must be performed.
There are waiver criteria available, MEPS should be able to answerthose questions. AR 40-501 is available if you wish to have the fulldocument
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