First time poster here needing some Doc advice. So I'm in an interesting situation. I'm in the process of finalizing my application for SNA with the Navy, but I just hit a bit of a bump. After a distant cousin of mine (in his mid-30s) had a couple benign tumors removed, my family got ourselves tested for this gene that causes hereditary paraganglioma-pheochromocytoma syndrome. It's basically a gene that gives you a predisposition, but not a guarantee, to developing these tumors that are almost always benign in nature.
Now, I've already been through NAMI in Pensacola, and everything checked out, but this has come up since then on the side. I told my recruiter about the situation, and he told me basically to withhold from telling medical until after I go through OCS, if I'm to get in. Which doesn't sound right at all.
Here a link to a description of the condition (forgive me if I'm breaking some forum rule for external links):
https://www.stjude.org/disease/hereditary-paraganglioma-pheochromocytoma.html
The worrisome thing about these is that hypoxia has been shown to have a correlation with them developing, although I feel that hypoxia is typically avoided with modern pressurization and oxygen in cockpits, except it may be encountered in training for a short time.
This would be one of those "don't volunteer information" things, but the thing is, it's recommended I get an MRI every two years just to check if anything's developed. I've already just had one, and everything checked out just fine. I just don't want to start off lying to the Navy, especially since this would probably have to come out eventually.
Basically, I'm wondering (1) what I should do regarding disclosing this and (2) how this could affect my application.
Thank you.
Now, I've already been through NAMI in Pensacola, and everything checked out, but this has come up since then on the side. I told my recruiter about the situation, and he told me basically to withhold from telling medical until after I go through OCS, if I'm to get in. Which doesn't sound right at all.
Here a link to a description of the condition (forgive me if I'm breaking some forum rule for external links):
https://www.stjude.org/disease/hereditary-paraganglioma-pheochromocytoma.html
The worrisome thing about these is that hypoxia has been shown to have a correlation with them developing, although I feel that hypoxia is typically avoided with modern pressurization and oxygen in cockpits, except it may be encountered in training for a short time.
This would be one of those "don't volunteer information" things, but the thing is, it's recommended I get an MRI every two years just to check if anything's developed. I've already just had one, and everything checked out just fine. I just don't want to start off lying to the Navy, especially since this would probably have to come out eventually.
Basically, I'm wondering (1) what I should do regarding disclosing this and (2) how this could affect my application.
Thank you.