I know that you’re not supposed to be allowed to take prescription medications during army basic training. How likely is it that this can get waivered? Has anyone had experiences with this? What if it’s a once-weekly medication rather than daily? Also, has anyone gotten into the army with rheumatoid arthritis?

Thanks in advance.
To clarify: I am well aware that RA is listed as an automatic DQ in the manual or whatnot. But it does say that a waiver is a possibility, which is what I am hoping for, since my ASVAB, DLAB, etc. are high and I have a college degree. Mostly I’m just asking, has anyone had an experience or known anyone who has had an experience where they have been allowed to take a prescription during basic training? Thanks.

I’m 35 and I’ve had RA for 2 years. I’m just wondering what kind of things has helped people live active lives with it. I’m not asking about medications, I know all about them, I’m more interested in ways people have been able to reduce the pill popping.

For anyone else information I recently found out that doing very physical forms of yoga 4 to 5 times a week seems to be doing wonders for the inflammation (and my butt looks great!) but I don’t know if that will maintain throughout the winter which is the worst time for me.

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my sister moved in with me due to complete debilitating disease.I have taken her to the Emergency room a few times and an Urgent Care Facility for treatment of her Rheumatoid Arthritis.The Urgent care Facility said they would request her Medical R and after aprx a month still have not.They refused to prescribe her pain meds and only offered to prescribe ansiad ‘s which she is allergic to.They refused to acknowledge this and told her that Medical records take time to obtain and told her they will refer her to a Pain Management Clinic,but not a Rhuematologist.The Dr went so far as to ask her “who told you you have Rheumatoid Arthritis”
is there a way to report this to a Medical Board ?She has copies of Med Records from another hosptial where she had been treated.We are too broke to send her back to the other state and she is in such pain that anther state had prescribed her Morphine .She seeks Vicoden as is allergic to other meds with auto immune disease and Shogrins,low potassium
i dont know how to get her help

He is 46 and it came on suddenly. He really suffers with it. The doc put him on Enbrol?? It’s a weekly injection. We are waiting for it to be shipped to us so he can begin. I can’t help but wonder if there are other options? There is another med he can’t take because he has FLD.Anyone have alternative remedies that may help?