How many people get recalled to redo a section of the Part 2 Med?? I've just been told I've got to redo the blood test (specifically Thyroid Function Test) and am now filling my load.
Help!
Jacko
Cesspit 152
13th May 2002, 17:56
While we're on the medical topic:
Just curious, how far down an eye chart are you SUPPOSED to be able to read?
ie. Too far down means your longsighted sort of thing.
Is being long sighted a bad thing?
SirToppamHat
13th May 2002, 20:34
JNo
I am sure that quite a few do, but it can be for any number of reasons.
Sometimes the test isn't conducted properly, or the sample is lost/contaminated, or the test-tubes are found to be from an unreliable batch.
If the readings are 'abnormal', this may just be an off day, or the readings may be slightly outside what someone considers normal, but the degree to which the labs apply stats to samples varies, so that what might come back from one lab out of limits, may not even be commented on by another. I'm not a medic, but I have been through the process several times.
I joined the RAF having been subjected to a rejection on the grounds that I had suffered asthma as a child (I was not even med fit to join as a dustbin man (their words not mine) if there had been such a branch).
Having almost given up hope, I applied to join the Army, who insisted I apply for AAC as I had done quite a bit of flying. They sent me to OASC Biggin Hill for an aircrew medical and they in turn sent me to London for a specialist opinion about an abnormal heart trace with a low t-wave (even though I had already been rejected for pilot through being short-sighted). The heart was fine, and I took the opportunity to ask what the current policy was regarding juvenile asthma. Amazingly, it had changed completely, and I started at Cranwell, after yet another visit to OASC, 2 mths later.
The point I am trying to make is that just because you've been recalled, does not mean that you will be failed, or even that there is anything wrong. My advice is to get some more info from the medics before you go, perhaps visit your own Dr for advice, and do all you can to minimise the chances of an 'abnormal' reading if that's what it was.
Whatever happens, there is no point in worrying about it. Good luck!:)
Cartman, E
14th May 2002, 08:42
Yeah, don't worry about it. I had to have 4 retests for exactly the same thing. Just get it done as soon as possible. Go to your local GP if necessary. I lived beside a base and got them done there rather than sitting on a train for 6 hrs to go back to Cranditz.
Just had my retest results back and they show that I have an (ever so slightly) underactive thyroid. Anybody know how serious this in terms of Pilot selection?
It does explain why I'm almost always feeling tired and why even though I'm fit (bleep 13.9) I'm still overweight!!