Posted on Feb 16, 2019
If I was misdiagnosed for asthma, how should I answer questions about my medical history at MEPS?
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I was wrongly diagnosed with asthma a few years ago and I'm currently working with my doctor to get these records off my files. I went to another doctor who stated, based on all my history and recent and past breathing tests, that I for a fact do not have asthma and should have never been diagnosed with it in the first place and that's what it says in my records. Basically, I just had trouble breathing in the spring due to allergies (never any wheezing {only when I was really sick} or coughing/asthma attacks). And with exercise, I've just been out of shape. As soon as I started running consistently, I was perfectly fine. I've taken albuterol and it's never really helped at all.
If it was a misdiagnosis and it states so in my records, saying no to these questions at MEPS would not be lying, correct?
Also, I say no to the counseling question if it was due to grief also, correct? (I'm just curious, I'm not sure of everything).
If it was a misdiagnosis and it states so in my records, saying no to these questions at MEPS would not be lying, correct?
Also, I say no to the counseling question if it was due to grief also, correct? (I'm just curious, I'm not sure of everything).
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Read DODI 6130.03
History of airway hyper responsiveness including asthma, reactive airway disease,
exercise-induced bronchospasm or asthmatic bronchitis, after the 13th birthday.
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It would seem legal advice as to whether a misdiagnosis need be reported. I don't know. I wouldn't based on this logic: If I were misdiagnosed with a medical condition on active duty, then made a claim for it from VA, and VA determined I was misdiagnosed, then I would not be entitled to compensation because I ever had the condition.
The mental health grief counseling doesn't appear to apply, or need reporting, unless ot meets the criteria in the reference above. Ot appears that unleashed you required inpatient treatment, medication, or treatment for 12 or more months, it may not need reported. Read the reference, and make your decision.
History of airway hyper responsiveness including asthma, reactive airway disease,
exercise-induced bronchospasm or asthmatic bronchitis, after the 13th birthday.
5.28.
It would seem legal advice as to whether a misdiagnosis need be reported. I don't know. I wouldn't based on this logic: If I were misdiagnosed with a medical condition on active duty, then made a claim for it from VA, and VA determined I was misdiagnosed, then I would not be entitled to compensation because I ever had the condition.
The mental health grief counseling doesn't appear to apply, or need reporting, unless ot meets the criteria in the reference above. Ot appears that unleashed you required inpatient treatment, medication, or treatment for 12 or more months, it may not need reported. Read the reference, and make your decision.
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Asthma is a goofy subject and it is something they hang on. I answered yes to the question and it took me almost 16 years to fully shake it.
When I was 4 I had a very bad upper respiratory infection that was misdiagnosed as asthma. I answered “yes” being the dumb 18 year old who didn’t know any better. I had to fill out request for medical records forms and go back to MEPS when they got the records. The doctor who did my exam at MEPS literally wrote “No asthma” as the last note before his signature. The next day some other doctor wrote me a waiver to get into the Army due to a prior asthma diagnosis.
Fast forward 10 years. I’ve been in the Army as a firefighter the whole time and passed yearly PFT’s with above average lung function. I was at Bliss deploying to Afghanistan and the doctor finishing the provider portion of my pre-deployment health assessment noticed I had a waiver for asthma but no profile which is required. He ended up writing me a P2 profile for asthma that said, “soldiers condition is well controlled on medication....” among some other things. That was a complete fabrication as I’ve never taken medication for asthma in my life but no matter what I did, I couldn’t get rid of that profile.
Fast forward another 5 years and that P2 profile got a Warrant Officer packet denied. I took about another year and I finally got some direction as to how to get rid of that profile (after trying for over 5 years). I finally got rid of that stupid thing last November.
I’m not telling you to say no, but that’s my experience with saying yes....
When I was 4 I had a very bad upper respiratory infection that was misdiagnosed as asthma. I answered “yes” being the dumb 18 year old who didn’t know any better. I had to fill out request for medical records forms and go back to MEPS when they got the records. The doctor who did my exam at MEPS literally wrote “No asthma” as the last note before his signature. The next day some other doctor wrote me a waiver to get into the Army due to a prior asthma diagnosis.
Fast forward 10 years. I’ve been in the Army as a firefighter the whole time and passed yearly PFT’s with above average lung function. I was at Bliss deploying to Afghanistan and the doctor finishing the provider portion of my pre-deployment health assessment noticed I had a waiver for asthma but no profile which is required. He ended up writing me a P2 profile for asthma that said, “soldiers condition is well controlled on medication....” among some other things. That was a complete fabrication as I’ve never taken medication for asthma in my life but no matter what I did, I couldn’t get rid of that profile.
Fast forward another 5 years and that P2 profile got a Warrant Officer packet denied. I took about another year and I finally got some direction as to how to get rid of that profile (after trying for over 5 years). I finally got rid of that stupid thing last November.
I’m not telling you to say no, but that’s my experience with saying yes....
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Medical records can’t be released to anyone without an authorization for disclosure of medical and dental records signed by you and listing the specific doctor/facility of those records. You’ll be fine.Ally Saith
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SFC (Join to see)
That doctor has to be listed on that release. And unless you say yes, they aren’t going to dig. It’s up to you but a “yes” will open an unnecessary can of worms that would be best left closed.
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A pulmonary function test should clear all that up. This is common. They were "diagnosed with asthma" as a child and doing a PFT will rule it out. Good luck to you
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Ally Saith
My PFTs have been completely normal for the past like 5 years. The intake and outtake of my breathing is completely fine.
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GySgt (Join to see)
Ally Saith submit all those PFTs to MEPs. They should clear you to physical. They may have you do another PFT with a provider they choose.
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SSG (Join to see)
Yes, the PFT test should clear it up as well. You will also want to get a doctors clearance letter to explain all of that stuff as well. They should be as detailed as possible and reiterate that you’ve never had asthma. You’d want to get that before going back to MEPS.
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