RoamingBiologist
Flying out deep into the wilderness.
Hello Airwarrior Community,
I am in the process of awaiting my date to go to MEPS, I had several delays that prevented me from being able to go and submit my packet for the July SNA/NFO boards. When filling out the medical forms, I put under family history hypertension, spine degenerative disease, and allergies, of which I only have the allergies portion. Had a full physical done by my primary in Apirl this year (at the time I was under a different insurance policy) and passed everything with flying colors. Few weeks after providing past surgery report, 6-month post op physical (said all clear), and primary care provider physical (blood, urine, eyes, etc) they shot a message back to my recruiter saying I had degenerative spine disease, hypertension, and need a pulmonary function test.
Had period of a few months where I had neck pain 3 years ago, and had a full spine and neck X-rays to ensure that I wasn't suffering from a heredity disease. Everything was all clear and it turned out I just pulled the living daylights out of my neck muscles at the gym. (Zero issues since then) So I gave the report saying I was fine.
Pulmonary Function Test: Scored 112% the pulmonologist said that it was normal and above normal for certain parts of my test.
Hypertension: was 130/80 at my April physical, 132/74 back in November '14, 127/80 October'14.
I do more cardio now than I did back in April and I regularly check my BP and BF% to ensure I'm right on track, and to monitor my health as it's something I grew accustom to. Since I've gotten back into my serious training regiment my BP is 120-130 systolic, diastolic 50-70. On intense cardio weeks I see numbers as low as 118/48. I never had issues with getting my BP checked by doctors I was familiar with, but for some damn reason since I was told by my recruiter that MEPS was asking about it I started to become more aware of it.
So I payed out of pocket (alot of money) to see a doctor where I am now (in between insurance policies
atm) and my bpm went from 66 to 100s right in front of the doctor, and my bp was 150/90. She told me to just continue my exercises and that we would monitor my bp outside of a clinical or emergency care provider setting. When I returned with several days worth of bp measurements in which I was in 120-130 systolic and diastolic would be 50-70. Highest recording was 140/70 at about 1:30pm being in the sun for a while and thirsty as hell. Returned to her, that weird nervous feeling crept up and it was 158/90 with a bpm of 105. She diagnosed me with having White Coat Hypertension, and wrote a note describing my bp ranges outside of clinical setting and inside clinical setting.
I was wondering if this would be a deal breaker for getting through MEPS and Flight Physical?
I am in the process of awaiting my date to go to MEPS, I had several delays that prevented me from being able to go and submit my packet for the July SNA/NFO boards. When filling out the medical forms, I put under family history hypertension, spine degenerative disease, and allergies, of which I only have the allergies portion. Had a full physical done by my primary in Apirl this year (at the time I was under a different insurance policy) and passed everything with flying colors. Few weeks after providing past surgery report, 6-month post op physical (said all clear), and primary care provider physical (blood, urine, eyes, etc) they shot a message back to my recruiter saying I had degenerative spine disease, hypertension, and need a pulmonary function test.
Had period of a few months where I had neck pain 3 years ago, and had a full spine and neck X-rays to ensure that I wasn't suffering from a heredity disease. Everything was all clear and it turned out I just pulled the living daylights out of my neck muscles at the gym. (Zero issues since then) So I gave the report saying I was fine.
Pulmonary Function Test: Scored 112% the pulmonologist said that it was normal and above normal for certain parts of my test.
Hypertension: was 130/80 at my April physical, 132/74 back in November '14, 127/80 October'14.
I do more cardio now than I did back in April and I regularly check my BP and BF% to ensure I'm right on track, and to monitor my health as it's something I grew accustom to. Since I've gotten back into my serious training regiment my BP is 120-130 systolic, diastolic 50-70. On intense cardio weeks I see numbers as low as 118/48. I never had issues with getting my BP checked by doctors I was familiar with, but for some damn reason since I was told by my recruiter that MEPS was asking about it I started to become more aware of it.
So I payed out of pocket (alot of money) to see a doctor where I am now (in between insurance policies
atm) and my bpm went from 66 to 100s right in front of the doctor, and my bp was 150/90. She told me to just continue my exercises and that we would monitor my bp outside of a clinical or emergency care provider setting. When I returned with several days worth of bp measurements in which I was in 120-130 systolic and diastolic would be 50-70. Highest recording was 140/70 at about 1:30pm being in the sun for a while and thirsty as hell. Returned to her, that weird nervous feeling crept up and it was 158/90 with a bpm of 105. She diagnosed me with having White Coat Hypertension, and wrote a note describing my bp ranges outside of clinical setting and inside clinical setting.
I was wondering if this would be a deal breaker for getting through MEPS and Flight Physical?