Service implications on having IBS

[mrsribs]

If you "suspect" that you have developed IBS what is the RAF stance on this. I "suspect" I may have it but A) wish to continue serving, B) stay in a deployed post C) go OOA early next year.

Sensible advice most welcome.

 

[timaloy]

Depends how bad I have coeliacs which is in the same med cat apparently (from henlow med board) and I was told if I wanted to sign on they'd convene boards etc, or I could leave right away

 

[Stevienics]

Wow. Things have changed.

I had that diagnosed in the 80's and they gave me a bucket of Fibogel and told me to pith off back to work.

 

[Captain Black]

When you say you suspect you have developed IBS, have you actually been to the Med Centre about it yet? IBS is often refered to as an absense of an identifiable problem. The symtoms of IBS tend to be the same as many other bowel problems that can be damaging to health.

I was diagnosed with IBS about a year after I developed the symtoms as we had to explore every other possibility.

I was never aware of a standard approach to IBS. If it is IBS, it probably depends on what 'style' you have. There are various 'types' of IBS. I was eventually permantly down-graded not for the IBS as such, but because of the medication I was using to manage it.

 

[Big Jock]

I was diagnosed with IBS and told to lose weight and watch my diet, no downgrading. Eleven years later after I was made redundant but before I actually finished, I went sick again with the same problem, referred to civvy specialist and diagnosed with Diverticular disease and told of I was not already on my way out my career would be finished.

John