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Ontheway-of-Sea
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I am 20 and going to boot camp next month and I have a question regarding the tb skin test that would be issued for the p-days or processing days.
You see, I remember I went to MEPS and they asked me if I have any disease (and probably one of them is tuberculosis) and I said no,
Because before I went to the navy recuiter... I was working as a healthcare worker and I remember that a year before I went to work; they gave me a tb skin test... but I became positive on the skin test (or so that was what the nurse told me).
Though she didn't even measured the induration but she wanted me to go to a medical center on that day, which I did.
And when I arrived at the medical center.... they inspected the bump and it was below 5 mm or I think it was 6.5 mm. And they asked me if I have been coughing blood or nightsweats or fever.. and ofcourse I said No because I've been healthy and running up good.
And so the technician that time, signed up a paper and said I'm just been exposed but not infected and that I don't need any medications (because the medication kinda damages the liver and I don't needit unless it is severe) and so she didn't put me to x-ray at all. (I remember also that I had a BCG vaccine when I was 11 from my former country and before I immigrated here in the US I also had an x-ray test for my medical which didn't show any anomalies of some sort when i showed it in the medical center.)
And then, ofcourse I'm able to work as a healthcare worker after that.
Now here's my problem:
I am scared that if I go to boot camp they might think I said something misleading on my medical report...
also I'm scared that after I went there to boot camp they might just send me back home and that would be a problem because I prepared all this much and just to go home for that? no money and all.
So, I want to know that if it happens that I have a positive skin test *knock on wood* again (which would happen again because the technician from the medical center told me that I will always be positive on it)...
What would happen to me? I mean, they might put me on a medication as a precaution but if they do, would I still be able to stay there in boot camp and not go home?
or would they put you on medication just because you have a positive skin test but negative x-ray? would they sent me home for that? or I could take the medicine out there in boot camp and still train.
That's why I'm so worried like hell right now, because I don't know if I'll be sent home or not and I prepared all this much already.
I can't even eat good for my supper coz of this.
Please help me.
P.S. it has been a year since my last tb skin test... and I'm still up and running. No cough or night sweats. I'm all good.
still praying my test would not be positive no more if I go to boot camp.
To Mr Puma;
I didn't mean to say that I willfully gave a false statement on my medical...
I just stated what was deemed to be factual, like what Scott K said.
the medical technician said I am not infected with the bacterium so that means I'm not infected. It's just there she said.
and that's why I'm getting scared bcoz it can be deemed to be something severe even if it doesn't.
umm... also, what I really do want to ask is that, say, you become positive on the skin test but you have a negative x-ray...
If it happens that they still decided to put you in medication... would I still be able to stay there and train and take the medication there instead of going home?
oh umm... MEPS testing is I think the initial test... there's another medical test which you will be given shots and it's on bootcamp which is called P-days or processing days..
thanks.
You see, I remember I went to MEPS and they asked me if I have any disease (and probably one of them is tuberculosis) and I said no,
Because before I went to the navy recuiter... I was working as a healthcare worker and I remember that a year before I went to work; they gave me a tb skin test... but I became positive on the skin test (or so that was what the nurse told me).
Though she didn't even measured the induration but she wanted me to go to a medical center on that day, which I did.
And when I arrived at the medical center.... they inspected the bump and it was below 5 mm or I think it was 6.5 mm. And they asked me if I have been coughing blood or nightsweats or fever.. and ofcourse I said No because I've been healthy and running up good.
And so the technician that time, signed up a paper and said I'm just been exposed but not infected and that I don't need any medications (because the medication kinda damages the liver and I don't needit unless it is severe) and so she didn't put me to x-ray at all. (I remember also that I had a BCG vaccine when I was 11 from my former country and before I immigrated here in the US I also had an x-ray test for my medical which didn't show any anomalies of some sort when i showed it in the medical center.)
And then, ofcourse I'm able to work as a healthcare worker after that.
Now here's my problem:
I am scared that if I go to boot camp they might think I said something misleading on my medical report...
also I'm scared that after I went there to boot camp they might just send me back home and that would be a problem because I prepared all this much and just to go home for that? no money and all.
So, I want to know that if it happens that I have a positive skin test *knock on wood* again (which would happen again because the technician from the medical center told me that I will always be positive on it)...
What would happen to me? I mean, they might put me on a medication as a precaution but if they do, would I still be able to stay there in boot camp and not go home?
or would they put you on medication just because you have a positive skin test but negative x-ray? would they sent me home for that? or I could take the medicine out there in boot camp and still train.
That's why I'm so worried like hell right now, because I don't know if I'll be sent home or not and I prepared all this much already.
I can't even eat good for my supper coz of this.
Please help me.
P.S. it has been a year since my last tb skin test... and I'm still up and running. No cough or night sweats. I'm all good.
still praying my test would not be positive no more if I go to boot camp.
To Mr Puma;
I didn't mean to say that I willfully gave a false statement on my medical...
I just stated what was deemed to be factual, like what Scott K said.
the medical technician said I am not infected with the bacterium so that means I'm not infected. It's just there she said.
and that's why I'm getting scared bcoz it can be deemed to be something severe even if it doesn't.
umm... also, what I really do want to ask is that, say, you become positive on the skin test but you have a negative x-ray...
If it happens that they still decided to put you in medication... would I still be able to stay there and train and take the medication there instead of going home?
oh umm... MEPS testing is I think the initial test... there's another medical test which you will be given shots and it's on bootcamp which is called P-days or processing days..
thanks.