The INSANE Cost For Medical 

FAA... "we've upped our standards so...up yours" or FAA the h stands for happiness

Both great lines!! 😅😅

Same. I had to have a liver transplant due to an autoimmune disease and bile duct cancer. It took a long time, but I was able to get my third class medical.

It is 2024 now and we have learned from research that all big pharma medicine is poison. I've been discovering this over the last couple weeks since my 82 year old dad's VA doctor almost killed him by prescribing him Flomax (a muscle relaxer) while he already is on a statin and a calcium channel blocker for high blood pressure. The Flomax muscle relaxer also causes your blood vessels to stop their automatic dilating and contracting to adjust pressure to make sure you get enough blood to your brain. His blood pressure was bouncing between 205/109 and then 4 hours later 95/55. He was experincing hot and cold flashes and anxiety and claustrophobia. Now get this, he only got put on the Flomax poison because his doctor asked him during his yearly physical, "Do you have frequent urination during the night?" to which he said, "Yes", so she put him on it. Now get this, I have been researching all his medications and found out that statins CAUSE enlarged prostate and frequent urination. They also cause muscle pain and muscle wasting. Because cholesterol is the transportation device that delivers needed nutrients to the brain, statins cause brain fog, short and long term memory loss, and ultimately dementia (which commenters under RU-vid statin videos all confirm about themselves and their parents experiences). My dad has been experiencing all this while on a statin. He has also been dealing with fluid retention in his feet and ankle for years.... my recent research caused me to discover that a known side-effect of his calcium blocker is FLUID RETENTION in feet and ankles. It is ALL poison made to squash one symptom and then create other problems and ultimately liver, brain, brain or body death, whichever comes first. Regarding your friend's sleep apnea, it is known that alcohol consumption before bed causes sleep apnea due to the fact that it relaxes the muscles in the neck. Therefore, I wonder if your friend's medication relaxed his muscles (like Flomax does) and is being off of it has ended his sleep apnea. If so, he could go in for a sleep study where they watch him sleep overnight and maybe be cleared of the sleep apnea diagnosis?

They’re incredibly common and generally very safe. Frankly the FAA’s process for this is beyond dumb.

@@stevenjames6604 Safe until you stop them.

Good for you Terry. Happy to hear that.

YOU WANT SOMEONE FLYING WITH MENTAL ISSUES?

Really?

This is interesting.

A pilot certificate and a medical certificate are different things. I had my pilot certificate, which was perfectly valid, but when I was deferred for my medical it took over 5 years of effort to get the medical back. Over that period my pilot certificate was perfectly valid, I just couldn't use it (at least not in the USA).

I DO NOT WANT THAT WOMAN FLYING SHE WILL BE A DANGER TO EVERYONE NEAR HER

What you have is different than this woman who has MENTAL ANXIETY ISSUES THIS WOMAN SHOULD NOT BE FLYING

Actually that doesn't work. Now that the FAA knows you have issues they will DEMAND you get a Class 3 every year. Basic med is no longer an option. Ask me how I know!!

You're wrong - it does work. I have it. It may not work in certain instances, but it can. Sometimes all you need is the right doctor who can fill out the paperwork in the manner that the FAA will approve. He gives them the facts in the terminology that they want, and it can work. Your particular issue is specific to you, and no one else. My AME told me exactly how things would work, and he was correct - right down to the smallest details. Not being a smartass here, but maybe a different AME is what you need. Someone who is experienced with pilots that have your issue. Wingman Med does such a thing, and I think your initial call is free. It costs nothing to talk to them. Good luck.@@ggsmith48906

It violates the citizen’s Inherent and Unalienable Rights to the pursuit of happiness as well as the citizen’s Fundamental Right to learn, to acquire worthwhile knowledge. None of those Rights were ever predicated upon the citizen meeting some arbitrary standard of health established by a government agency.

The brain is plastic and it changes in response to our thought patterns. If you no longer have anxiety I'd have to believe that there must be a doctor or psychiatrist somewhere who can diagnose you as not having it. I mean, everyone in science and medicine knows from studies that the brain changes easily. And if your anxiety was from serving in war, and you have been out of war for years, it seems like a logical assumption that the anxiety could have abated after you left the stress-inducing environment. Obviously I have NO IDEA what I'm talking about, but don't let that one AME with one opinion end all your hopes and dreams. Talk to other doctors. That one AME is not the one and only official interpreter of FAA medical knowledge and regs. He could be wrong or misinformed or simply mistaken. Don't let him make you give up hope and stop looking and trying. What if he is wrong? Get a second opinion/AME. Find a psych to say that you no longer have it if you don't have it.

@@StratMatt777 You're missing the point. Nowhere in the regulations is Anxiety (of any kind) listed as a medical condition that can prevent a pilots license. Even if it were, he claimed that I had "Anxiety Disorder" which is not what I was diagnosed with. "Generalized Anxiety" is the VA term for "hey this person is a little more fidgety than most."

@@recentlydeleted Well, that's great! Go to a different AME and get a medical.

THIS WOMAN HAS DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY ISSUES AND IS ON MEDS SHE SHOULD NOT BE FLYING

Yea, if you did a doctor probably would have prescribed you an SSRI by now 😂

See this is comment is just so silly. You’re comparing coffee to a serious mind altering medication. SSRIs aren’t just happy pills, it’s a serious medication that shouldn’t be dished out at the rate it is here in the USA.