This is something I can speak to with some experience :-) My next AME medical exam, after my first kidney stone was blown up with lithotripsy (sp?), was a non issue. Just needed a letter from my Urologist that I was stone free. Medical issued during the exam. The next stone episode again required lithotripsy to blow it up. I contacted my AME before the exam and he contacted my Urologist and got copies of a current CT scan, etc and the letter stating that I was once again stone free. He contacted Oklahoma City and got authority to issue me a two year medical if everything else was OK. It was OK so he issued the medical but with a one year restriction. I had to prove after one year that I was still OK. That was fine with me. About three weeks after the medical was issued I received a letter from the FAA with a new, un restricted two year medical certificate. Said that after reviewing all of the supporting documentation from my AME and Urologist they were issuing the unrestricted one and just send them the restricted one in the enclosed envelope.
I think several things are important here. My AME is a SENIOR AME. They have a lot more authority to make decisions on their own. My AME is also in my local EAA chapter and goes the extra mile to work with problem cases. Just a story where I was very impressed with my AME and the FAA. How often do you hear that! Steve Eberhart Yeh, I have played around with things KR but now my hands are covered with metal cuts. Larry&Sallie Flesner wrote: >At 08:46 PM 4/26/2006, you wrote: > > >>Having had a kidney stone I can testify that they are largely transitory and >>generally would only debitateyou during the event. Believe me >>during the event >>you think you are going to die. They generally do not cause the >>kind of chronic >>problem that would knock you out of the sky. >>Don >> >> >+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > >Don't take them too lightly, depending on your history of passing them. >If you experience stones on a regular basis (God help you) or have one >lodged that could pass at any time, you will be corresponding with the >fed's on a regular basis. > >Larry Flesner > > > >
