Son finally got exam scheduled for next week. He has a primary care doctor already who has most of his medical records. What if anything should he bring or is everything done electronically now. He broke his tibia in freshmen high school football and had to have surgery following fall to remove bone spur (He is a Sophomore at Mizzou in fall). Also had issue with mold exposure that was misdiagnosed as Crohn's so he had colonoscopy and follow up colonoscopy a year later which affirmed the misdiagnosis along with all documentation from mold specialist. His GP concurred with this final diagnosis. Will he be filling out a lot of questions which are going to require dates and doctor names? Want him to be straight and honest with process so not sure how far they are going to go back. Thx
Medical History for medical exam
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If you and your applicant have not gone to the DODMERB site and read through every menu link there on the left-hand side, especially the ones on the process and the workflow, that will help the applicant a great deal.
It would also be helpful to know if this is for service academy application or other pre-Comm program.
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First = Google DoDMERB; Hit "Questions about the process;" Read paragraph 4 designed especially for you; then have DS, THE APPLICANT, read the remainder of the document.
Second - Have DS, not you, email me Lawrence.e.Mullen.civ@mail.mil; provide complete name and last 4; have him paste your posting (assuming he knows nothing about your posting) to the email. I'll engage in a dialogue and tell him what he needs to do when
First = Google DoDMERB; Hit "Questions about the process;" Read paragraph 4 designed especially for you; then have DS, THE APPLICANT, read the remainder of the document.
Second - Have DS, not you, email me Lawrence.e.Mullen.civ@mail.mil; provide complete name and last 4; have him paste your posting (assuming he knows nothing about your posting) to the email. I'll engage in a dialogue and tell him what he needs to do when
thanks, realizing this forum is not to answer for but for dialogue have seen postings from several people about previous conditions and the hoops they had to jump through. After going through 11 months of dealing with his mold diagnosis wanted to make sure he has all his ducks in order. Hope this all works out for him but did explain he has some classmates who had to deal with the same misdiagnosis for crohns (in one case a girl now has a colostomy bag and it should have never happened), another girl may have kidney damage from the GI meds she should have never been on, so as devastating as a DQ might be these students lives are a real mess.
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Do I read this correctly that there were three classmates, misdiagnosed with crohns disease, and/or mold issues? Did they all go to the same DR?
And BTW, you CAN have more than ‘just a dialogue’. You CAN receive actual answers. privately with the Deputy Directer of DODMERB. Pretty cool.....
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May I respectfully recommend your son follow up with Mr. Mullen, the Deputy Director of DoDMERB, with his questions you listed in your first post, as Mr. Mullen provided specific guidance for contacting him directly?
I cannot think of anyone better than the long-serving #2 at this organization, who, as a primary source, will provide accurate and useful answers. I suspect when he used “dialogue,” it meant he was willing to go back and forth in a conversation as long as it took for your son to get the clarity he needed.
It is unusual for so senior an official to give so freely of his own after-hours time. We are blessed to have such an authoritative source.
May I respectfully recommend your son follow up with Mr. Mullen, the Deputy Director of DoDMERB, with his questions you listed in your first post, as Mr. Mullen provided specific guidance for contacting him directly?
I cannot think of anyone better than the long-serving #2 at this organization, who, as a primary source, will provide accurate and useful answers. I suspect when he used “dialogue,” it meant he was willing to go back and forth in a conversation as long as it took for your son to get the clarity he needed.
It is unusual for so senior an official to give so freely of his own after-hours time. We are blessed to have such an authoritative source.
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That pinged my HEYDAR as well as in, Hey, what's going on here.
A cancer cluster down stream from a Monsanto plant points to the plant. A Crohn's cluster points to a bunch of people connected by DNA.
This sounds like a cluster of kids been seen by a quack.
No not really mold 101 trust me the quack is the only one who got it right. He had 3 signs of mold exposure, terrible acne, sinus allergy issues and fatigue. Given antibiotics with mold in your gut kills good bacteria for a system already in trouble. This "quack" after 3 months of treatment all symptoms gone. His acne is gone, no gi issues, no sinus issues, all gone, he is on no prescription meds. The same GI doctor who did first colonscopy procedure did follow up, he was stunnned never seen anything like it ever. He now is referring some of his patients to this mold doctor. HIs GP just did his yearly physical and changed his current diagnosis from Crohn's to mold exposure after seeing all the info. Mold is so bad at his high school they have to tear the entire school down. His ENT who is one of the most highly regarded ENT's in all of the midwest contacted me directly and asked for a copy of the mold report we were provided. She has patients that attended his high school that she is going to refer to the same mold doctor. THe scary part is GI doctors who can't admit they are wrong. Considering the terrible side effects of these GI drugs this borders on malpractice. Best part is the mold treatment is a few charcoal supplements (about 100 dollars) (turns stools black for about a month). The most stunning part is the terrible acne cysts he had are all gone, no accutane, no acne meds at all.
My heart breaks for the 20 year old girl with a colostomy bag. That is enough for any 20 year old to deal with but the surgery did nothing. All the health issues she had got no better. SHe tested positive for mold in her system. Hard to explain to my son if he loses his dream of being a Ranger but make sure he understands how horrible this is for this girl. I do know 2 midwest universities are now studying mold exposure as a contributing factor to dementia. Mold doctor made it clear to me my son is lucky long term effects of mold can be both vision and brain issues. It is like asbestos it won't leave your system unless treated. Unlike asbestos if dealt with early you can remediate it
Could not sleep the other night and saw the news about Bittany Murphy the actress and her husband both dying of mold exposure. Looks like all the specialists treated the symptoms and never the cause. I am lucky I found a 77 year old doctor that recognized all of his symptoms as being caused by the mold.