wannabeeseal
03-10-2008, 04:43 PM
Hi, i'm Charley and i'm new here so sorry if this is in the wrong posting area.
My question requires a little back ground so bear with me. When I was about 18 months old I had a mild fubrlie seizure. For those of you who don't know, a fubrlie seizure is only caused because of an extremely high fever it has nothing to do with kind of head injury. A few hours later I had a second one and my parents took me to the hospital which discovered the high fever was caused by sinus infection. They then took me to a neurologist who told them that it would be extremely unlikely I would have another one and if I made it to age 6 I would NEVER have another one. I am now 16 (you're probaly thinking just another naive 16 year old who wants to be a SEAL but that dreams gotta come sometime) anyway I have never had another one since that night 15 years ago. It is IMPOSSIBLE for me to have another fubrile seizure and I have never had any kind of head or neck injury that could cause a seizure. I have also always been a very healthy person. So my queston is of course could the fact that I had a fubrile seizure effect if the Navy would allow me to become a SEAL. If yes does it require a waiver. If no should I just lie on the medical evauation at the MEPS and hope they don't find out. Aslo if yes should I inform my recruiter (I haven't talked to one quite yet) about this, as a I understand a lot of recruiters have a habit of telling you what you wnat to hear and then you don't get it. So basically my fear would be if I went into the Navy thinking everything would be ok and then when i'm at boot camp and i'm locked into a certain amount of years the Navy then says I can't be a SEAL and I have to do something else because of this. PLEASE HELP this is very important to me. Sorry for the long rant and thanks in advance for your answers.
My question requires a little back ground so bear with me. When I was about 18 months old I had a mild fubrlie seizure. For those of you who don't know, a fubrlie seizure is only caused because of an extremely high fever it has nothing to do with kind of head injury. A few hours later I had a second one and my parents took me to the hospital which discovered the high fever was caused by sinus infection. They then took me to a neurologist who told them that it would be extremely unlikely I would have another one and if I made it to age 6 I would NEVER have another one. I am now 16 (you're probaly thinking just another naive 16 year old who wants to be a SEAL but that dreams gotta come sometime) anyway I have never had another one since that night 15 years ago. It is IMPOSSIBLE for me to have another fubrile seizure and I have never had any kind of head or neck injury that could cause a seizure. I have also always been a very healthy person. So my queston is of course could the fact that I had a fubrile seizure effect if the Navy would allow me to become a SEAL. If yes does it require a waiver. If no should I just lie on the medical evauation at the MEPS and hope they don't find out. Aslo if yes should I inform my recruiter (I haven't talked to one quite yet) about this, as a I understand a lot of recruiters have a habit of telling you what you wnat to hear and then you don't get it. So basically my fear would be if I went into the Navy thinking everything would be ok and then when i'm at boot camp and i'm locked into a certain amount of years the Navy then says I can't be a SEAL and I have to do something else because of this. PLEASE HELP this is very important to me. Sorry for the long rant and thanks in advance for your answers.