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Med Down question
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1) It depends. Are you SICK or do you have allergies... Not everything will get you med down. I contracted some nastiness while doing IFS at Eglin, and didn't go med down for it. I did, however, get my wisdom teeth ripped out, and got med down/siq for 2-3 days.
2) no, if you go med down you go med down. it's no biggie wherever you are. Just make sure when you do it in primary, etc, you really are sick and not trying to get out of a flight.
2) no, if you go med down you go med down. it's no biggie wherever you are. Just make sure when you do it in primary, etc, you really are sick and not trying to get out of a flight.
But being med-down doesn't necessarily stop your training, it only stops you from flying in an actual plane (sometimes but not always the sim). I've been med-down in ground school and in the sims, and just made sure I got back med-up before it was time to go up in the plane again.
Of course, med-down and SIQ are different. SIQ (Sick In Quarters) will keep you out of everything and is bad news for training if in API I suspect.
One more thing to consider is that the instructors and other students don't want you getting them sick if you have something contagious.
Oh, but to answer your question ...
No, I don't think all medications get you med down - up to the doc.
No, don't think you are less likely to go med down in API - you'll be med down if going up in the plane is dangerous (at least this is how I understand it).
Hope that helps.
Of course, med-down and SIQ are different. SIQ (Sick In Quarters) will keep you out of everything and is bad news for training if in API I suspect.
One more thing to consider is that the instructors and other students don't want you getting them sick if you have something contagious.
Oh, but to answer your question ...
No, I don't think all medications get you med down - up to the doc.
No, don't think you are less likely to go med down in API - you'll be med down if going up in the plane is dangerous (at least this is how I understand it).
Hope that helps.
Never underestimate the Navy's ability to totally f*** this up. After I had been an NFO for years, one day the Navy grounded me for having allergies. I've always had allergies and the Navy knew that up front. But one day, some doofus MD at NAMI decided that should make me NPQ. I then had to get a waiver approved by the commodore to return me to flight status. It was like a bad movie except I was in it instead of watching it. Aviation medicine is one of the Navy's hinckiest spots. That said, they are slowly getting out of the 1930s and into 1940s and 1950s medicine...
AMEN. And I think part of the improvement today in Navy medicine is the fact that the Navy might be a better place to be for your average doctor than out there --- "in the market".ip568 said:
The Navy had me INCORRECTLY blood-typed for 15 years. Ouch......
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