LCpl Private RallyPoint Member 4167251 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>So when I joined the Corps I started getting a bad rash at boot camp, they said it was athletes foot etc. It&#39;s been going on for over a year, I&#39;ve been to medical since the start going almost every month, getting athletes foot cream, they then switched it to atopic creams and steroid creams, which did not help whatsoever. Saw a doctor on leave and diagnosed it as eczema. Then when I got back to the unit I saw a dermatologist that did a biopsy and the lab came back that it is contact dermatitis. The dermatologist concluded that I was most likely allergic to the combat boots. Over the time I&#39;ve been in I&#39;ve tried different socks, different boots, giving them weeks-months to see if over time I&#39;d heal and it hasn&#39;t. Medical hasn&#39;t mentioned once about a med board. My feet bleed everyday from it and it effects and prohibits me from preforming my duty.<br /><br />I also sustained a TBI during a unit PT exercise and the medical at my other unit did nothing, gave me Ibuprofen and said to &quot;give it time to heal&quot; but no light duty, quarters etc. I got to my new unit and saw the doctor and got sent to neurology. Assuming that it comes as memory loss (which is what I think I have) it effects me doing me duties as I&#39;ll forget stuff or be told something and then forget to do it or that I even did do it.<br /><br />Would me be asking the doctor for a med board be a good idea or bad idea? I&#39;m not sure how it works, I assumed usually they are supposed to bring it up otherwise they think you&#39;re trying to pull a fast one, but I have all the documentation and proof of it. My biggest issue is if something happens to other Marines bc I wasn&#39;t able to preform my duties and they wind up getting hurt for it. 2018-11-28T22:23:15-05:00 LCpl Private RallyPoint Member 4167251

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>So when I joined the Corps I started getting a bad rash at boot camp, they said it was athletes foot etc. It&#39;s been going on for over a year, I&#39;ve been to medical since the start going almost every month, getting athletes foot cream, they then switched it to atopic creams and steroid creams, which did not help whatsoever. Saw a doctor on leave and diagnosed it as eczema. Then when I got back to the unit I saw a dermatologist that did a biopsy and the lab came back that it is contact dermatitis. The dermatologist concluded that I was most likely allergic to the combat boots. Over the time I&#39;ve been in I&#39;ve tried different socks, different boots, giving them weeks-months to see if over time I&#39;d heal and it hasn&#39;t. Medical hasn&#39;t mentioned once about a med board. My feet bleed everyday from it and it effects and prohibits me from preforming my duty.<br /><br />I also sustained a TBI during a unit PT exercise and the medical at my other unit did nothing, gave me Ibuprofen and said to &quot;give it time to heal&quot; but no light duty, quarters etc. I got to my new unit and saw the doctor and got sent to neurology. Assuming that it comes as memory loss (which is what I think I have) it effects me doing me duties as I&#39;ll forget stuff or be told something and then forget to do it or that I even did do it.<br /><br />Would me be asking the doctor for a med board be a good idea or bad idea? I&#39;m not sure how it works, I assumed usually they are supposed to bring it up otherwise they think you&#39;re trying to pull a fast one, but I have all the documentation and proof of it. My biggest issue is if something happens to other Marines bc I wasn&#39;t able to preform my duties and they wind up getting hurt for it.

2018-11-28T22:23:15-05:00 2018-11-28T22:23:15-05:00 SSG Private RallyPoint Member 4169591

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I don&#39;t know what medical regulations the marines go by, but in the army they use regulation AR 40-501 standard of medical fitness that tells you everything from head to toe that will deem you unfit for military service whether you had condition before you join or while in. This is the same regulation they use at MEPs before you join the army. According to that regulation on the Army side, rashes on the feet will not get you a medical retirement. TBI could possibly get you a medboard. The reason you are not being considered for a medboard is due to the fact your medical readiness is showing that you are fit with no type of profiles. Once again I dont know how the marines work, but in the Army, once you get a permanent physical profile 3 or 4, that automatically initiate a MEB/PEB or Medical/physical evaluation board to see if you are fit to do job or let alone to continue to serve.......... So find out from the medical people what regulation covers standard of medical fitness for Marines

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