multiple sclerosis

23APR25: Referred to MEB 20MAY25:assigned PEBLO 22MAY25:initial meet with PEBLO 04JUN25: official MEB brief Posting my timeline for those curious. I’m an active duty officer with 19.4 years. My hope is that I make it to retirement or they choose to retain me. I’ll update this post as often as...

After being transitioned into a WTU and going through the IDES I received my ratings from the IPEB. The DOD and VA rated me both a 30% yet they recommend me for permanent retirement. I don't understand how a condition rated so low warrants a retirement. The rating is for MS and if you didn't...

Hello, I am a CPT with 8 years of total service in the National Guard. I was recently diagnosed with MS but I was on state active duty when diagnosed. 3 lesions were found in my brain. In November of 2022 I was diagnosed with bells palsy while attending DINFOS at Fort Meade. My doctors said...

Hello, I have just started a podcast going over some basics and key takeaways from my journey 2 years ago. It’s on Spotify now Warrior Research Society and I have posted documents on Patreon.com/warriorresearchsociety The Patreon stuff is all public so it is free to copy and paste or read...

So I’ve been in the Army for 18.5 years. If I make it to 19 and drop retirement can I choose retirement over the MEB? Being MEB’d for multiple sclerosis.

I am posting this as a combination on my journey. Maybe it will help others find resources for their issues. I started with my MEB timeline from Fort Hood and then moved into my symtpoms and at the end I talk about a current treatment program I am trying that has worked for a LOT of Vets being...

I'm in the active Army for 6 years. 2 years I started getting weird symptoms, went to doctor and was diagnosed by Navy neurologist with multiple sclerosis. I never got profile because PA on my base never thought it affected me that much. And it really didn't affected me that much besides couple...

I am AD Air Force and was just diagnose with multiple sclerosis and might be going through MEB/PEB. I am wondering what happens if I was found fit and return to duty? The military doctors have put me on medication for MS. But when I seperate next year, how I will pay for my medications and my...

I am active duty AF and 2 months ago was diagnose with Multiple Sclerosis. I was in RILO process while doing exams to get the offical diagnosis. Now that I have it, I have not heard anything about initiating a MEB. I read on AFI48-123 that MS is a trigger condiotion that starts a MEB. I have...