Waiver questions/MEPS prep
Hey!
Really wanting to join the army. Have my NREMT and 2 degrees but my dream is flight medicine so 68W and get my CF-P license.
Backstory: was diagnosed through a college health PA in a clinic with bipolar 1 without any prior appts. My note had a lot of contradicting statements, and some where I know she flat out did not write the correct symptoms. For example, told her I had a recent father figured died and I was having issues keeping focus in classes due to me driving 4 hours to and from my home state multiple times in one month for services and family time. In the appt I vividly remember her saying “it sounds like mania” then proceeded to type it out that I said I was having manic episodes with memory loss. Huge issues so I amended the note through the proper channels and am currently waiting to hear back from the hospital to confirm it’s been done and added. She prescribed me Abilify and sent me home. During this time I was working full time, getting my emt license, got 2 degrees right out of high school so no legal or academic trouble what so ever. I didn’t believe this diagnosis.
5 months later I moved states, spoke to an actual psychiatrist who took the diagnosis off my chart at her facility and said I did not meet criteria for bipolar but kept me on 2 meds for depression and anxiety episodes.
During this time I changed my lifestyle, moved again, and I feel great. Been living her for 2 years with no mental issues. When I spoke to my PCP here and we went over my history, the notes from the original provider stayed but not the ones from the actual psych doc who took it off. That being said she refilled a prescription for 1 medication and 1 PRN anxiety med; both in which I no longer take and haven’t taken for well over a 1 and a half-maybe longer. Bipolar 1 is still listed as well as depression and anxiety which I do not experience. My lifestyle change definitely helped and I feel great.
No hospitalizations, no meds for well over a year, just those diagnosis in my chart that I am now meeting with a new doc to get taken off.
If you have made it this far, thanks for reading my story but I’m hoping someone could give me some help on what the process looks like right now. One recruiter I spoke to briefly said we could get a waiver because I never attempted suicide and never will. Just looking for some I guess positive stories of those who made it through and what they did? Maybe some advice as well for my current situation? Thank you!