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Is any type of temporary medical profile that can be done that will cover a soldier who has been on medication and gain temporary weight?
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Height and Weight
APFT Height and Weight
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Your doctor can write you an exemption. This is what RallyPoint is for . For us to help and enlighten eachother. Thanks for your question and continue to want to learn and be taught .
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The AR states what it does, but there are always exceptions to any rule. Your Doctor can make you medically exempt from Height and weight standards. While mostly done for thyroid conditions, I have seen it done for weight causing anti-depressants. The effective date should be the day you started the medication. Go back to the prescribing doctor and ask for the exemption.
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MSG Thomas Currie
SFC (Join to see) - The overwhelming majority of military medical personnel never read any regulations. Many are completely convinced that they can write anything on a sick slip or medical record as if it were gospel. Some will tell a patient one thing and write something completely different. These two categories overlap and are not mutually exclusive.
Meanwhile many people in the chain of command don't read regulations either, some fall for that same assumption about the unlimited authority of anyone in the medical corps.
The regulation is clear that medical personnel CANNOT "exempt" anyone from height/weight standards, but if the doctor thinks he can and the commander accepts thinks he can, then it might work until someone actually bothers learning the truth.
Meanwhile many people in the chain of command don't read regulations either, some fall for that same assumption about the unlimited authority of anyone in the medical corps.
The regulation is clear that medical personnel CANNOT "exempt" anyone from height/weight standards, but if the doctor thinks he can and the commander accepts thinks he can, then it might work until someone actually bothers learning the truth.
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