Plantar Fascial Fibromatosis and MEB

I’ve been dealing with foot pain for a little over a year now, have had doctors visits and light duties documented the whole time. Only at the start of this year did I get recommended to a specialist when ice and stretching didn’t fix it. This doctor has put me on limdu twice now and said that I have plantar fasciitis fibromatosis. I haven’t had a significant decrease in pain since I’ve seen him. He’s given me steroid shots in my foot and that’s about it.
The question I have is my Gunny pulled me into his office and said the doctor put “Ability to Return to a Fully Deployable Status: Excellent” on my Limdu paperwork. He says that this can be bad news for me, and that if I don’t get better on this LIMDU and get placed on a MEB, the fact the doctor put excellent means they will find me fit for duty. Is this true? If I don’t get better will I just be found fit for duty? Thanks.

 

[thanks4urhelp]

Not sure if you're still worried about this, but what they end up saying before the board begins won't really hold much weight if your VA findings are entirely different.

I've spoken to members on here along with other PEBLOs that like to answer questions (typically prior PEBLO who no longer works for the board) that once the PEB accepts your case it's pretty unusual to find you fit. You'd almost have to fight for it assuming your condition is bad enough, or so I hear.

I'm pretty concerned about my fitness determination not because I have a chance of being found fit, but because I would be able to have a definite answer that I'm on my way out.

To give you specifics, this is what was on my LIMDU paperwork:

Clinical Prognosis and Ability to Return to a Fully Deployable Status (EXCELLENT, GOOD, FAIR):
GOOD

Your board will hardly be decided based on the subjective glance of your referring doctor at the time of LIMDU initiation. My current PCM (different from LIMDU referring doctor) stated I am unlikely to improve up to 36 months and beyond in the future. That's hardly a good chance of being deployable again. Cases progress.

Though you are much later in this process now, and you are waiting for the PEB's hammer to fall on your case. If you wanna ask about any confusions, I hope myself or anyone else who may know can answer.

 

[AnonMarine]

Not sure if you're still worried about this, but what they end up saying before the board begins won't really hold much weight if your VA findings are entirely different.

I've spoken to members on here along with other PEBLOs that like to answer questions (typically prior PEBLO who no longer works for the board) that once the PEB accepts your case it's pretty unusual to find you fit. You'd almost have to fight for it assuming your condition is bad enough, or so I hear.

I'm pretty concerned about my fitness determination not because I have a chance of being found fit, but because I would be able to have a definite answer that I'm on my way out.

To give you specifics, this is what was on my LIMDU paperwork:

Clinical Prognosis and Ability to Return to a Fully Deployable Status (EXCELLENT, GOOD, FAIR):
GOOD

Your board will hardly be decided based on the subjective glance of your referring doctor at the time of LIMDU initiation. My current PCM (different from LIMDU referring doctor) stated I am unlikely to improve up to 36 months and beyond in the future. That's hardly a good chance of being deployable again. Cases progress.

Though you are much later in this process now, and you are waiting for the PEB's hammer to fall on your case. If you wanna ask about any confusions, I hope myself or anyone else who may know can answer.

Appreciate the necro, but yeah I’m at the same stage as you now. Just waiting which sucks because I’ve been accepted to college for a Sep 3rd start date but I can’t officiate anything (housing, moving, etc.) until I get my stuff back.