I’m on active duty, can I be medically dishcharged with my pectus excavatum causing breathing and heart problem?

You were waivered in with excavum, so you won’t be separated for it. Your medical issue right now is COVID complications, not your chest wall. There’s a lot of documentation that shows some COVID patients have long lasting complications and others have irreversible damage to their lungs.

If your impairment prevents you from being deployable, then you will be medically separated. There’s no big rush to do that right now. As long as you have a passing APFT you aren’t flagged and you don’t have to actually pass an ACFT for quite some time. Months from now if you’re still getting winded, you can expect to be medical separated. At that it’s fair to say you either will not heal up completely or that it may take years. That would mean you’re not deployable and cannot stay in.

If your impairment isn’t so bad you can’t deploy, but is bad enough that you can’t keep up in the Infantry then your doctor will recommend a medical reclass.

Your doctors are there to help you. Sometimes helping you is medically separating you when it’s in your best interest. That might sound rough, but let’s ply through this scenario if you didn’t get separated. You can’t run so you’ll fail your ACFT in the future. Then you’ll be flagged. You’ll ETS as PV2 because you can’t pass an ACFT/APFT and get promoted or reenlist. You’ll be flagged and can’t use tuition assistance. If your provider medically separates you, you will receive a severance pay (or medical retirement, but not usually with your time in service) and a disability rating from the VA before you walk out the door. You won’t have to worry about getting flagged, your primary job will be to take care of your medical appointments and you will have plenty of time to take those transition classes instead of being detailed out to gate guard the last six months till you ETS.

Nobody wants to have their service cut short early. But if it is to happen, this way will take care of you and save you tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars in future healthcare costs.

No matter what happens you will be cared for. You have time and it sounds as if it is all being documented. Be patient, the goal of the Army is to keep all whom they train, it makes much more fiscal sense. There have been many possibilities portrayed to you by earlier posts, be patient, make sure you see what the Docs are putting I. Your record and keep your leadership informed.

So much depends on your unit and the military doctors. I got blown up downrange, every time I would run my knee would swell up and become extremely painful. I would go to sick call, but between checking in and when the doctor (often a PA) would get around to me the swelling had gone down, so they'd give me some Naproxin and tell me to drive on. Unit had a mission to do and a buck sgt that can't run is just in the way.

These other NCOs have a good report. I'm glad for them. There's no one who cares about your health more than you do. Therefore, you need to educate yourself of the regulations that govern your situation. You need to know what's going into your medical record. If you have good NCOs, they will guide you so that you don't get screwed. If you don't, well, your situation will be a lot like mine and you'll be a bitter old codger like me. Don't let that be you. Don't be a jerk, but ask a lot of questions and don't let the emotion cloud your judgement. I cannot emphasize enough, educate yourself, and don't be lazy about the followup.