About to Ship!

[FSAnon]

So I have been a long time lurker and have received awesome info from this site as well as a few others.  In fact some of the info on this site weighed heavily in my decision to join up.
I have been searching and reading stickies etc. about what the Physicals and RTC consist of for nukes. 

1. Is it exactly like the one we did at MEPS?  *bend over and spread em again?  or is it just more bloodwork? 
2. Would a case of hemorrhoids previously not present at MEPs but now currently present be a disqualifier? I don't know wtf i did but i got em and leave in 2 weeks.  What do?

Thanks

[Starkist]

Lol I applaud your bravery


yes, RTC is just as "intrusive" and no, hemmoroids are not disqualifying for anything haha. Put some cream on, heal yourself up haha.

[FSAnon]

cool. they won't put me on hold or anything will they? worst case scenario if they're still there when I ship...

[Rod Puller]

If hemorrhoids were nuc disqualifying then we wouldn't be able to put out over 40% of our nation's combatant vessels.  If you don't have them now, you're certain to get them at some point in your career.  Kudos to you for putting your a$$ out there for the rest of the forum lurkers to see.

[IPREGEN]

I never got hemorrhoids but I worked with a few of them.

[HighOctane23]

What about athletes foot? When I did my physical at meps, the doc there said to make sure we didn't have athletes foot when we come back to ship out or it would keep you from shipping. I have a little bit of it on the sides of my feet, and I've been putting anti-fungal cream on it about twice per day for the last month. It's gone down a bit, but won't seem to go away completely. Is it really that big of a deal? I thought they gave everyone shower shoes at RTC anyway.

[HeavyD]

Yes, they give you shower shoes.  No, everyone doesn't use them.  Also, you are an active infection carrying individual coming into confined living quarters with upwards of 100 complete strangers from all walks of life.  Athlete's foot is a fungus and is easily spread.  Find the strongest over-the-counter remedy you can and use it religiously to kill that stuff. 

You will be amazed or disgusted by the hygiene habits of your future shipmates.

I watched a guy wear his shower shoes to the shower, then leave them outside while he stepped in, barefoot, to the shower stall on ENTERPRISE back in 1995.  Still makes my skin crawl.

[Rod Puller]

We actually had to med-evac a guy off of my submarine on deployment because of Athlete's Foot.  He didn't use all of the cream and the fungus developed an immunity to it.  It didn't help matters that it wasn't on his foot.  Those that were on a submarine (and many others that weren't I'm sure) can surmise where else the fungus can travel since it comes in contact with socks.

Use all of the cream.  Don't stop just because the fungus appears to be gone.

[Zog]

Guy named rod puller talking about love socks, classic. 

[Rod Puller]

It wasn't me!  I swear!  It was a friend of a friend of a guy I knew....

[IPREGEN]

What next, we'll see what the definition of  "buddy" is?

[MrHazmat]

What next, we'll see what the definition of  "buddy" is?

Is that the same as "Good Buddy"

[taf90]

The nuke physical is the same as the MEPS physical pretty much, the part when you were in with the doctor. They also give you extra bloodwork during bootcamp. If you made it through MEPS, you should have no problem making it through this physical. If something went wrong and they can fix it, they will and put you on medical hold after bootcamp, (Which happened to me. I got a hernia during boot.)