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Thank you for the kind words. Maybe the regulations will change by the time I finish my residency 7-10 years down the road like it did with lasik and I can try again. For now, I will think of something else to do.

Update: no waiver authorized because of the surgery. I spoke with Mr. Mullen via email and he has been an enormous help with the process. I recommend reaching out to him to anyone with any questions. Maybe one day I will be a physician in a VA and help take care of soldiers in that capacity but...

Update: waiver not authorized.

Thank you! This is making me hopeful. I submitted a letter from my opthalmologist with a dilated fundus exam at the dodmerb physical so I believe that they should have it. As of now, they have not requested any more information but the site seems to be down again... As of my competitiveness...

Thank you for that list. I have seen it and asked my opthalmologist if I had an implanted contact lense and he said that I did not. I am hoping for the best! I will update this thread either way to help out people in a similar situation.

I have another thread already on here "history of juvenile cataracts surgery" but wanted to know if anyone has ever seen this disqualification waved. My recruiter made it sound like the people who grant waivers just go by the dq code and it is a code that is either waiverable or is not...

Update: I got dq at dodmerb which I knew would happen and my recruiter is now applying for a waiver. My dq was D153.90 history or current opacity of the lens including cataract My recruiter made it sound like now they just look at the code and see if it is waiverable or not. Do they really...

Thank you for the informed response. In response to 1. Yes, the surgeon who did my surgery back in 1997 was apparently using revolutionary technology for the time and is pretty renowned in his field. My vision has progressively been getting better since the surgery and has just now topped out...

I know a history of cataract surgery is usually not waived, but I am wondering if exceptions will be more likely to be made for a medical student as the army cannot train physicians on their own? For any physicians on this forum this is the exact note from my ophthalmologist 1. Anisometropic...

Thank you Sir. I hope my waiver gets across the desk of a like-minded individual.

Hello new to the forum so please excuse if I break any rules. I am taking DODMERB for Army national guard as a medical student. On the form I admitted to marijuana use a few times from 2004-2009 (when I was in hs) alcohol use from time to time 2004- 2009 one time ecstacy use in 2009 (I checked...