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So first, since this site is obviously for moms ill ask about her. She knows Im going in, she didnt mind as long as I thought about it hard first. And I thought about it for 3 years and after my recent relationship I have nothing holding me back anymore. And I want to go more than anything. But im just curious how moms feelings change as you get further into the process. I still live at home so I know it will be a big change. Any thoughts?
Also, I had heart palpitations a year ago and my mom wanted me to go to the hospital to have it checked out. I was curious if anyone here had or know of anyone that had to deal with heart palpitations and the doctors at MEPs and if you could tell me your experiences. I also took prozac several months ago for a month, but my recruited said that I can easily have that waived because my doctor wrote a note talking about my current mental health, and that what I took it for was nothing major and I could of went without it. So im curious about waiver experiences and the heart palpitations.(which I have documentation of my heart being normal sizes with no problems, and no more occurrences etc..)
If anyone has advice for me I would greatly appreciate it. I don't want to get my hopes up because my recruiter doesn't know what he is talking about. Especially with any advice on what I should do about all of this.
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Thank you guys. But for the prozac it depends, according to my recruiter and some other recruiters 1 year is for people who were diagnosed with anything above mild depression and took the medicine for over 3 months. The amount of time depends on how long you took it and your psych eval. Thats at least what they have told me. But we faxed all of my med records up to meps so hopefully I find out from them soon. Also my recruiter told me a lot of waivers and stuff depends on how bad youre needed, and how much education you have. Which I have a year of college and a good ASVAB that quald me for everything.
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