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I got disqualed beuase of high Cholesteral.

The Flight Doc was real cool though and said that if I wanted to go home, eat right exercise get a cholesterol test here in a while and send him the results he would count all the stuff I did yetserday and just include the new cholesteral test.

There are some weird things about all this however:
1) I passed a USAF flight physical with flying colors a little over 2 years ago.
2) I'm fairly young (25) I'm by no means overwieght (6'1'' , 170lbs) usually cholesteral isn't a problem for people like that.
3) I eat pretty healthy (not as healthy as I will for the next couple of months but pretty healthy) and run everyday and hit the weightroom 3 times a week, again unusaul for me to have this problem.
4) When we got to the airfield yesterday to see the Doc, we were told that they had not taken enough blood at the lab and that I would have to fast for 12 hours again so that they could take blood for today. When we got back over to the building with the lab, I went and saw the optomistrist (the flight doc had some questions and I was getting the answers) while I was doing that my recruiter went to see the lab to make sure I could get in first thing this morning to have the blood retaken, he said that they had found another blood sample of mine by then, but the results for the cholesteral and lipids test wouldn't be in until 5, so we would be stuck at Hood overnight again. Well we go in this morining the Doc has the results says "Sorry, but if you want to try eating better and exercising more, I'll rerun the test in a couple of months, in fact looking at these results if you were one of my pilots I'd send you in for a stress test on your heart."

5 hours later my recruiter and I are almost home, he says "Yeah, I went over to the lab and they said that if they were told to take 3 viles of blood they took 3, and then they found your sample, I looked at it and it had your name on it." I then said "They only took 2 viles of blood, not 3. I remember, it hurt like hell both times they jammed the vile into the needle and there were only two viles in the holder next to the chair when they were putting on the bandage."

Does this sound a bit strange to anyone else? This was my ONLY disqualifier, and the comment about sending me for a stress test really bothered me, becuase it made me sound really bad. I'm thinking there was either a mistake in the lab or I've got bigger problems than busting a physical.

Whoever said something about the eye dialtion was right, I'm still felling the effect and they did the dialation over 24 hours ago.