Current issues: Lower back pain, mild sleep apnea, and I go to behavioral health. I have been in 7 1/2 yrs 1 deployment 3 duty stations
I have been fighting about my lower back now since 2016. At first it was the normal back pain like a pulled muscle or something. Gradually it continue to get worse. I started going to sick call to see my PCM. He just told me I needed to stretch more and put me in physical therapy. That was not working. I continue to go see him and continue to complain about the same thing. Still he just insists to just keep doing therapy.
June 2016 I get in a car accident and the back pain shoots up from a almost bearable pain to a my husband has to help me out of bed pain. With the accident I started going to Arrowhead who had me do a MRI. Turns out the area that I kept complaining about was due to it basically being bone on bone at my L5. At this point now I am doing Physical therapy, shots in the back, and chiropractor. Still nothing is working. Now its August 2016 and I am still on temporary profile. Around September I find out that I have orders to go to Korea. I continue to ask my PCM is how can we fix the pain I am having because now I am in pain from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to sleep. I can no longer run or walk long distance. He just says continue to go to physical therapy. So he signs the paperwork saying I can PCS to Korea even though I am on temporary profile. I arrive to Korea may 2017. The following week after arriving I go see my PCM and tell her what has been going on. She sends me to the ortho to have a MRI. While there the MRI results are the same. Basically that the pain in my back that I have been complaining about for so long wasn't just a figment of my imagination. The ortho doctor puts in that I need surgery on my l5. Go back to my PCM and she starts medical curtailment paperwork. it takes about 6 months for me to finally end up back stateside. keep in mind I am still on temporary profile an have been every month since august 2016. Get to my duty station with a new PCM and go through my whole saga all over again. He suggests physical therapy but I refuse because I did it at my first duty station as well as Korea and I knew all it did was hurt me more. So he just keeps me on my temporary profile. Finally may 2018 I have my spinal fusion surgery. Now its July 2018. So I sent my PCM an email asking if I qualify for MEB. I get a call back from his office that I have a appointment with him on Friday July 13th. I then get a call from a lady that says she is my case manager. So I ask her do I qualify for MEB. First she goes no you don't qualify because you have been on temporary profile and not permanent profile then she goes on to say we have to wait 9-12 months to see if the surgery worked so I can be reevaluated. I inform her that my ETS date is Jan 19, 2019 and that by the time my recovery is over I will be out. this is when she says she wants to see me right after I see my doctor. I'm just so tired of getting the run around. first being told there is nothing wrong with you when you know there is something wrong and now the thought of not even being MEB but just plain ETS. I am a damn good Soldier, I have never been in trouble and practically ranned my 1st duty station company for 4 yrs. due to the fact I ranned the orderly room by myself. I was always the person that let the new 1sg and new commanders know what was going on and what or how some paperwork needed to be completed because they didn't know. Im stressing all the time.
I was just diagnosed with a mild case of sleep apnea 2018. I have been going to behavioral health since 2015-2016. I have gained at least 30-40lbs since all of this started due to not being able to work out. I cant even walk a mile anymore let alone run. Did I mention im still on a temporary profile. Help I don't know what else to do. Time is running out.
I have been fighting about my lower back now since 2016. At first it was the normal back pain like a pulled muscle or something. Gradually it continue to get worse. I started going to sick call to see my PCM. He just told me I needed to stretch more and put me in physical therapy. That was not working. I continue to go see him and continue to complain about the same thing. Still he just insists to just keep doing therapy.
June 2016 I get in a car accident and the back pain shoots up from a almost bearable pain to a my husband has to help me out of bed pain. With the accident I started going to Arrowhead who had me do a MRI. Turns out the area that I kept complaining about was due to it basically being bone on bone at my L5. At this point now I am doing Physical therapy, shots in the back, and chiropractor. Still nothing is working. Now its August 2016 and I am still on temporary profile. Around September I find out that I have orders to go to Korea. I continue to ask my PCM is how can we fix the pain I am having because now I am in pain from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to sleep. I can no longer run or walk long distance. He just says continue to go to physical therapy. So he signs the paperwork saying I can PCS to Korea even though I am on temporary profile. I arrive to Korea may 2017. The following week after arriving I go see my PCM and tell her what has been going on. She sends me to the ortho to have a MRI. While there the MRI results are the same. Basically that the pain in my back that I have been complaining about for so long wasn't just a figment of my imagination. The ortho doctor puts in that I need surgery on my l5. Go back to my PCM and she starts medical curtailment paperwork. it takes about 6 months for me to finally end up back stateside. keep in mind I am still on temporary profile an have been every month since august 2016. Get to my duty station with a new PCM and go through my whole saga all over again. He suggests physical therapy but I refuse because I did it at my first duty station as well as Korea and I knew all it did was hurt me more. So he just keeps me on my temporary profile. Finally may 2018 I have my spinal fusion surgery. Now its July 2018. So I sent my PCM an email asking if I qualify for MEB. I get a call back from his office that I have a appointment with him on Friday July 13th. I then get a call from a lady that says she is my case manager. So I ask her do I qualify for MEB. First she goes no you don't qualify because you have been on temporary profile and not permanent profile then she goes on to say we have to wait 9-12 months to see if the surgery worked so I can be reevaluated. I inform her that my ETS date is Jan 19, 2019 and that by the time my recovery is over I will be out. this is when she says she wants to see me right after I see my doctor. I'm just so tired of getting the run around. first being told there is nothing wrong with you when you know there is something wrong and now the thought of not even being MEB but just plain ETS. I am a damn good Soldier, I have never been in trouble and practically ranned my 1st duty station company for 4 yrs. due to the fact I ranned the orderly room by myself. I was always the person that let the new 1sg and new commanders know what was going on and what or how some paperwork needed to be completed because they didn't know. Im stressing all the time.
I was just diagnosed with a mild case of sleep apnea 2018. I have been going to behavioral health since 2015-2016. I have gained at least 30-40lbs since all of this started due to not being able to work out. I cant even walk a mile anymore let alone run. Did I mention im still on a temporary profile. Help I don't know what else to do. Time is running out.