In addition to that. If anyone has ever gotten a sleep study, make sure you follow up on that. I was told by my flight surgeon at the time that a mild central sleep apnea wasn't grounding and nothing to worry about in the future. I took his word at that, and didn't think anything of it. Come discharge time, the VA guys put that in my disability paperwork and got a 30% from that.
Fast forward to renewing my medical and I made sure to put every disability from my VA paperwork on there to make sure I didn't run into the crap that some other people are with losing their certs. Well, turns out mild sleep apnea is a big deal for the FAA and I'm currently in a short holding pattern while I finish my sleep study, and then go from there. Likely I'll have to get a CPAP and be on it for an yet to be determined amount of time before receiving my medical.
I think the reason the flight surgeon didn't say anything is because I was due to deploy in about three to four months and it would have taken longer than that to get everything done. In hindsight, I wouldn't have had a problem with that had he told me to take care of it when I got back. However, that's not what I was told. Yeah, I should have looked into it myself, but I didn't and now I'm paying for that little mistake.