Hello,
I just found this forum. I'm NOT currently going through an MEB or RILO, but I smell one on the horizon. I've been in 19+ years, prior-enlisted Major...and I have about 2.5 years left on an Active Duty Service Commitment. I have pretty severe back pain with radiating symptoms down both legs on the lower side and radiating symptoms in my arms up top. Pain and radiating symptoms started about 5-6 years ago in combat skills training. A doc a deployed with treated me with pain killers and steroid injections over the course of the deployment. Since then, I've been on and off profiles for PT, but now the nails are in the coffin. I've tested AC only the last 3 times and my next one will probably be a composite exemption as I'm having a multi-level anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF) and decompression surgery of the L4-L5-S1 next month. I'm also newly own a CPAP machine (to even overweight) for minor obstructive sleep apnea and I'm being treated by mental health for anxiety and depression stemming from a wrong-site pain management procedure at my MTF and some deployment shit I just can't shake. I'm sure there are a few other issues too, but these are the main ones causing me issues at the moment.
Like I said, no MEB yet, but I'm not naive enough to think that one isn't coming. I can still perform my duties for the most part, but my surgeon says I'll probably never run again. The AF seems to have a hard-on for PT over the last 5-6 years so I'm not sure how this restriction will go over.
I just really don't know what to expect with any of this.
Any advice, experience, and/or pointers will be great appreciated.
Thanks!
AK
I just found this forum. I'm NOT currently going through an MEB or RILO, but I smell one on the horizon. I've been in 19+ years, prior-enlisted Major...and I have about 2.5 years left on an Active Duty Service Commitment. I have pretty severe back pain with radiating symptoms down both legs on the lower side and radiating symptoms in my arms up top. Pain and radiating symptoms started about 5-6 years ago in combat skills training. A doc a deployed with treated me with pain killers and steroid injections over the course of the deployment. Since then, I've been on and off profiles for PT, but now the nails are in the coffin. I've tested AC only the last 3 times and my next one will probably be a composite exemption as I'm having a multi-level anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF) and decompression surgery of the L4-L5-S1 next month. I'm also newly own a CPAP machine (to even overweight) for minor obstructive sleep apnea and I'm being treated by mental health for anxiety and depression stemming from a wrong-site pain management procedure at my MTF and some deployment shit I just can't shake. I'm sure there are a few other issues too, but these are the main ones causing me issues at the moment.
Like I said, no MEB yet, but I'm not naive enough to think that one isn't coming. I can still perform my duties for the most part, but my surgeon says I'll probably never run again. The AF seems to have a hard-on for PT over the last 5-6 years so I'm not sure how this restriction will go over.
I just really don't know what to expect with any of this.
Any advice, experience, and/or pointers will be great appreciated.
Thanks!
AK