Originally Posted by bones

I definitely had it while I was in the military, but it was not intrusive enough for me to have done anything about it. My mother was always a bit of a hypochondriac so I struggle not to fall into the same trap and sometimes err in the other direction. The military has one symptom documented, but it was within months before I got out and I never went back to have it checked on again (a huge mistake on my part). Plus my doctor tells me it's very hard to diagnose. You have to get a biopsy at exactly the right time or it doesn't show up in tests. Some people that have it never test positive for it. Long story short - every doctor I've seen since being hospitalized (3 or 4) has been 99% sure I have it because all of the treatments for it have worked at keeping it in remission but they don't have a clear positive so the military won't do anything about it.