Please tell me how to get a waiver for this case of asthma I apparently had?I am currently trying to get into the Army National Guard. But I have to get two damn waivers, if I want to go in honestly. The recruiter and many other military people have told me to lie, but there is no way I am lying to get into the army. I am an unlucky person and that usually screws me over in the future. And it's not the recruiter who will be getting in trouble. I did what I was told to do about the ADD waiver I need. I stopped taking medication a year and a month ago. I was misdiagnosed with ADD as a function of the times (the 90s) when everyone was getting diagnosed. I have passed college courses without medication, which obviously means I don't have it.
However, this crap about asthma has arisen. My mother tells me that I had a case of "cold-weather asthma" when I was 15 years old, and used an inhaler. I know the army takes asthma very seriously, and this is a disqualifier if you are over 13. I feel so screwed, and I'm very angry about this. I am not going to lie or pretend to forget something that's on my medical record, because the army is a stressful commitment, and I can't spend six years being paranoid.
So here's the case with my asthma. I have no recollection of it affecting me. I have no memory of using an inhaler. The truth is, I don't use an inhaler, and I do a hell of alot of excercise daily. I have NEVER had an attack in my life. This is insignificant as hell, but I'm not lying about it.
So what should I do? They're going to get pissed about both having ADD and this "asthma"
I think I am going to wait until I am done with college and get as fluent in Arabic as I can. That way I can take both the two asthma tests, and get a waiver, and go in with good grades and good Arabic skills.
I think I'll do Marine Corps instead of army.
-alexander m
cant join if you had asthma after 13.... start looking for a new carreer.
-Mathematical Duck
You're a nightmare for a recruiter. I'll make a comment about the asthma. It does not matter what-so-ever how much you workout and do not have an attack. You haven't been in a gas chamber nor have your body been put under the amount of stress it will be placed under for presumably the next six years. Now, if you truly believe you have no asthma, then there is a test you can take called pulmonary function test. Take it on your own dime and it'll tell you if you have asthma or not.
As for your ADD. last time I checked as long as you haven't taken meds for something like a year, then MEPS can let you in for it without a waiver. However, this was back in 04 and Army regs are known to change. (This does not mean that a record review will not be done.) Regardless, I do believe that if your transcript shows you to be academically sound you'll be squared away.
Lastly, good job at not lying. A lot of kids would do it without thinking about the consequences in their personal life and in the field. Get what you need to get done and get it done right and you'll be happy and squared away. Keep in mind even if you are rejected; your honesty shows a strength in character lacked by many youth and to me that tells me that you'll do well in the military or in civilian life, whatever life decides you'll be fine.
-Izzy
Won't get a waiver for asthma unless you can pay for a pulmonary function test and mecholine test out of your pocket for it then give them the results to prove you don't got asthma and still they might say no.Basically your screwed sorry.
-tennischamp45
I have exercise induced asthma, and i also have a huge interest in joining the army. but the difference with me is that my asthma is much more prone to preventing me from completing the physical tasks required of the marines.
Heres the reason for my telling you this; i personally believe that your asthma is not a threat to your career in the army. The other people answering this question saw the word asthma and then wrote the quick and easy answer. "automatic dq if you needed medication for asthma after the age of 13". i can bet that they did not read what you said. This cold weather asthma was possibly not even asthma. I am on my highschool track team and i see many of my team mates who experience breathing problems during the winter that prevent them from performing as well in the spring. All of these team mates do not have asthma.
Asthma can be caused by the temperature of the air that you breathe in, if it is cold and dry and your body does not have time to adjust the oxygen's temperature, your lungs inflame and close up the airway, resulting in a harder time breathing, aka an asthma attack. this is why you had asthma in the cold weather. But asthma is chronic, and if your asthma was cold weather asthma, it would occur every winter and fall. this would be a problem in the military because the dry air in the desert can be very similar to the dry air of the winter and would give you problems.
But your asthma never occurred after that one cold season, so my best guess is that you have outgrown it. Age 15 is towards the middle of puberty, a lot of development is happening. It is very possible that this was just something that resulted from puberty and then left you as you developed further. It also could have been a bad winter.
Personally, i would agree with your recruiters. But not totally, i do not think you are lying. I highly doubt that what you had was asthma, many doctors hear that you are having breathing problems and give a quick fix inhaler that is just a precaution in case you truly do have asthma. Think of the phrase "better safe than sorry". that was the thinking of whoever prescribed the inhaler for your situation. but chances are, you dont truly have asthma. and reading your description, i would say that you would be fine for the military, as long as you are physically fit (besides any possible breathing problems) and therefor i think that you should really think about the facts and realize that your previous condition would not be a harm to yourself or others. go for it, the worst that can happen is that you run into these symptoms that you used to have when you go to afghanistan, and then talk to the medical corps and they will prescribe medication, or you will be discharged, but hey, its better than just taking the "no" you would get from the recruiter for telling them about your asthma.
One quick side note, FUCK ALL OF YOU PEOPLE WHO FIND THESE THREADS AND SAY NOPE, YOU ARENT GOOD ENOUGH FIND ANOTHER CAREER. You dont realize how much it sucks to have a medical condition that you can't help and this condition also prevents you from doing something that is your biggest interest. I am one of the top runners on my highschool team even though i am a freshman, and i know for sure that when i am of age i will be more physically fit than most men entering the army.
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