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Hello everybody,
I am very thankful to have stumbled upon this community/forum, it has tons of information regarding all kinds of different cases and experience's dealing with the FAA and special issuance issues. This place is a gold mine, seriously! after browsing the r/flying subreddit a lot of people were talking about Poa, so here I am!
(sorry in advance if this topic has been discussed before)
~ My timeline ~
I am a 18 year old who has a dream of flying. I just graduated high school and am going to SIU Carbondale IL and will be (hopefully!) attending their aviation flight program with a friend of mine. Unfortunately, when I went to go see my local AME (luckily he was a Senior HIMS AME and experianced with cases like mine) for my first class medical I had some pre-existing conditions that required a deferral, specifically ADHD, I did well on the whole first class test, but we never submitted anything because he told be about some things that the FAA would most likely want me to do.
(we went off of the Airman Information for ADHD/ADD PDF on the FAA's website)he told me about how I needed to take the Neuropsychology test because of my background and all the paperwork I would need to gather for it, i'm very thankful that he knew of one literally 2 hours away from me, so I booked an appointment with her and I only ended up paying $1,300 for it (from looking at other post's I got lucky). fast forward to the beginning of June when I took the test, it was fairly easy, I did a bunch of research on what the test would consist of and it ended up really helping me.
SO during the intro part the neuropsych testing she asked me question about a diagnosis I had on my medical records that I was unaware of, something was listed called "anxiety disorder of childhood", I told her that I never remember getting diagnosed with something like that before or treated (I have never taken meds for anxiety, only adhd) for, we called my parents, asking about it and my parents don't remember such a thing either (we thought that it might have gotten mixed up with my brother because he had anxiety growing up). either way I knew that that might be a bad thing, the Neuropsych testing continues anyways. after the testing was done I left and did my urine testing and we were told that she would compile the results and send a summary to us and the whole packet to my AME for him to look at and review.
After a week or so I get the summary from her and it detailed pretty much everything, it looked good, I think I only did a little rough on the VSCR and math accuracy in the CogScreen, but her summary was that I did good overall on it. And the overall summary said there was no signs of DSM-5 ADHD or anxiety and it looked Really good so I wasn't really bothered by my results besides a couple things, it was also noted that I had a random diagnosis of Anxiety disorder of childhood that was never treated.
Anyway I book the final appointment with my AME after he saw and reviewed the packet and he said it looked good, so we end up filling out the medxpress form together and then we fill the packet with all my test results and stuff and we head to the post office and send it off.
~My problem~
Soon after we send the results off to OKC I start googling this because I wanted to see what results other people had and their experience with this type of thing, so I stumble on this forum and read away and I ended up reading a post with people referencing that standalone ADHD and ADHD with a co-existing diagnosis was different, like having anxiety AND adhd would require more info like a psychiatric eval, and now i'm here wondering what they would most likely do when they review my case since I didn't report that I had an diagnosis for anxiety directly because I never knew I had it, I'm just worried that I will get denied because I never disclosed it to them. I could also be worrying too much. I also heard in some post's that they will just send a letter requiring a little more info, I'm not entirely sure.
I haven't really seen anyone in quite my situation so I decided to share my story here with this community. I'm starting school in mid august, after speaking with a Senior CFI at my college they said that I wouldn't need a medical for a month or so, so that has kinda bought me some time to get my SI. Ultimately, if I do end up getting denied because of this I do have a backup plan, I would probably plan on switching my major to Computer Science since I do have somewhat of a passion for that also. I just thought that being in the sky's would be a more rewarding career path for me with my love of aviation.
Ill keep the forum updated if i get a letter back.
I am very thankful to have stumbled upon this community/forum, it has tons of information regarding all kinds of different cases and experience's dealing with the FAA and special issuance issues. This place is a gold mine, seriously! after browsing the r/flying subreddit a lot of people were talking about Poa, so here I am!
(sorry in advance if this topic has been discussed before)
~ My timeline ~
I am a 18 year old who has a dream of flying. I just graduated high school and am going to SIU Carbondale IL and will be (hopefully!) attending their aviation flight program with a friend of mine. Unfortunately, when I went to go see my local AME (luckily he was a Senior HIMS AME and experianced with cases like mine) for my first class medical I had some pre-existing conditions that required a deferral, specifically ADHD, I did well on the whole first class test, but we never submitted anything because he told be about some things that the FAA would most likely want me to do.
(we went off of the Airman Information for ADHD/ADD PDF on the FAA's website)he told me about how I needed to take the Neuropsychology test because of my background and all the paperwork I would need to gather for it, i'm very thankful that he knew of one literally 2 hours away from me, so I booked an appointment with her and I only ended up paying $1,300 for it (from looking at other post's I got lucky). fast forward to the beginning of June when I took the test, it was fairly easy, I did a bunch of research on what the test would consist of and it ended up really helping me.
SO during the intro part the neuropsych testing she asked me question about a diagnosis I had on my medical records that I was unaware of, something was listed called "anxiety disorder of childhood", I told her that I never remember getting diagnosed with something like that before or treated (I have never taken meds for anxiety, only adhd) for, we called my parents, asking about it and my parents don't remember such a thing either (we thought that it might have gotten mixed up with my brother because he had anxiety growing up). either way I knew that that might be a bad thing, the Neuropsych testing continues anyways. after the testing was done I left and did my urine testing and we were told that she would compile the results and send a summary to us and the whole packet to my AME for him to look at and review.
After a week or so I get the summary from her and it detailed pretty much everything, it looked good, I think I only did a little rough on the VSCR and math accuracy in the CogScreen, but her summary was that I did good overall on it. And the overall summary said there was no signs of DSM-5 ADHD or anxiety and it looked Really good so I wasn't really bothered by my results besides a couple things, it was also noted that I had a random diagnosis of Anxiety disorder of childhood that was never treated.
Anyway I book the final appointment with my AME after he saw and reviewed the packet and he said it looked good, so we end up filling out the medxpress form together and then we fill the packet with all my test results and stuff and we head to the post office and send it off.
~My problem~
Soon after we send the results off to OKC I start googling this because I wanted to see what results other people had and their experience with this type of thing, so I stumble on this forum and read away and I ended up reading a post with people referencing that standalone ADHD and ADHD with a co-existing diagnosis was different, like having anxiety AND adhd would require more info like a psychiatric eval, and now i'm here wondering what they would most likely do when they review my case since I didn't report that I had an diagnosis for anxiety directly because I never knew I had it, I'm just worried that I will get denied because I never disclosed it to them. I could also be worrying too much. I also heard in some post's that they will just send a letter requiring a little more info, I'm not entirely sure.
I haven't really seen anyone in quite my situation so I decided to share my story here with this community. I'm starting school in mid august, after speaking with a Senior CFI at my college they said that I wouldn't need a medical for a month or so, so that has kinda bought me some time to get my SI. Ultimately, if I do end up getting denied because of this I do have a backup plan, I would probably plan on switching my major to Computer Science since I do have somewhat of a passion for that also. I just thought that being in the sky's would be a more rewarding career path for me with my love of aviation.
Ill keep the forum updated if i get a letter back.
