Hello everyone,
Stumped upon this forum as I'm trying to find out what can I possibly do in my current condition. Hope I may get some advise from you guys.
I apologize first as this is going to be a long post.
I jointed Active Army Nov. 2013
Got 2 stress fractures on my pelvis and 1 on my right femur. those weren't diagnosed at the time, only a suspicion. The company I was in chapters all conformed hip fractures out, and as I was joined through MAVNI, I would be send back to the country I came from if I got chaptered. Therefore I did not go back to get conformation on them and did a full month training on them. 12 mile ruck march, PT test and all. Luckily, I passed everything.
I finally got them checked out good after I got to AIT and the fractures were conformed. That was Mar. 2014. Doctor asked if I want a permanent profile, I said no. So a temporary profile as issued. Unfortunately, as an mechanic, I had to do quite some heavy lifting in order to pass AIT, which cause the healing of the fractures delayed even further. At the end of the AIT, I was asked to get a permanent profile or maybe even med board. I said I want to try a little more and that was that.
Got to my unit June 2014, hip issues were not improving. According to two different doctors, it has turned into chronic pain, and likely to last forever.
Around that time I started to develop an exercise induced bronchospasm, and has been to ER twice since. I has never did any sports or other physical work before I jointed Army, and according to my doctor my lungs just got stressed out from all the army training.
Around May 2015, my doctor told me that I'm either getting a permanent profile or a med board. One or the other. So I chose the permanent profile. Leadership was upset about it.
End of 2015, on one of the mission to move some heavy equipment and gear, due to the unfortunate circumstances there wasn't enough people and it supposed to be a short day, me and my battles decide to push through it. We did it, but I strained my back. I has since regularly having bad spasm that will give out sometimes even when I'm doing PU and SUs.
My unit got a new 1SG back in March and is pushing much more intense PT and training schedules. Since then, my pain level has gone up a lot more. Pain level right now is about anywhere between 5-7 depends on what I'm doing. Exercise induced bronchospasm that use to happen once a week or two now happens almost everyday which likely going to cause difficulty for me to pass PT test.
All these problems above has affected my sleep quality. It's difficult for me to fall asleep and I wake up at lease 3-4 times a night from discomfort and/or pain. As a result, I'm drowsy during day time and have trouble keep up working quality.
Many of leadership do not believe that chronic pain or exercise induced bronchospasm is real thing, and seem to think I'm just trying to get off of work. I have heard my 1SG said to one of the other soldier who has asthma that there's not such thing as asthma. And I have had couple higher rank people in my company said the same thing to me. I have been called to my XO earlier to discuss the issue. It sounds like my company is not happy with me and is considering push for chapter 13.
It seems like I'm neither doing any good for the Army nor myself.
What should I do at this point? Any advise is welcomed.
Please help.
Thank you very much for your time.
Stumped upon this forum as I'm trying to find out what can I possibly do in my current condition. Hope I may get some advise from you guys.
I apologize first as this is going to be a long post.
I jointed Active Army Nov. 2013
Got 2 stress fractures on my pelvis and 1 on my right femur. those weren't diagnosed at the time, only a suspicion. The company I was in chapters all conformed hip fractures out, and as I was joined through MAVNI, I would be send back to the country I came from if I got chaptered. Therefore I did not go back to get conformation on them and did a full month training on them. 12 mile ruck march, PT test and all. Luckily, I passed everything.
I finally got them checked out good after I got to AIT and the fractures were conformed. That was Mar. 2014. Doctor asked if I want a permanent profile, I said no. So a temporary profile as issued. Unfortunately, as an mechanic, I had to do quite some heavy lifting in order to pass AIT, which cause the healing of the fractures delayed even further. At the end of the AIT, I was asked to get a permanent profile or maybe even med board. I said I want to try a little more and that was that.
Got to my unit June 2014, hip issues were not improving. According to two different doctors, it has turned into chronic pain, and likely to last forever.
Around that time I started to develop an exercise induced bronchospasm, and has been to ER twice since. I has never did any sports or other physical work before I jointed Army, and according to my doctor my lungs just got stressed out from all the army training.
Around May 2015, my doctor told me that I'm either getting a permanent profile or a med board. One or the other. So I chose the permanent profile. Leadership was upset about it.
End of 2015, on one of the mission to move some heavy equipment and gear, due to the unfortunate circumstances there wasn't enough people and it supposed to be a short day, me and my battles decide to push through it. We did it, but I strained my back. I has since regularly having bad spasm that will give out sometimes even when I'm doing PU and SUs.
My unit got a new 1SG back in March and is pushing much more intense PT and training schedules. Since then, my pain level has gone up a lot more. Pain level right now is about anywhere between 5-7 depends on what I'm doing. Exercise induced bronchospasm that use to happen once a week or two now happens almost everyday which likely going to cause difficulty for me to pass PT test.
All these problems above has affected my sleep quality. It's difficult for me to fall asleep and I wake up at lease 3-4 times a night from discomfort and/or pain. As a result, I'm drowsy during day time and have trouble keep up working quality.
Many of leadership do not believe that chronic pain or exercise induced bronchospasm is real thing, and seem to think I'm just trying to get off of work. I have heard my 1SG said to one of the other soldier who has asthma that there's not such thing as asthma. And I have had couple higher rank people in my company said the same thing to me. I have been called to my XO earlier to discuss the issue. It sounds like my company is not happy with me and is considering push for chapter 13.
It seems like I'm neither doing any good for the Army nor myself.
What should I do at this point? Any advise is welcomed.
Please help.
Thank you very much for your time.