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After my PE it was a waiting game and trying to decide the best course. Since I knew that BasicMed was coming, I was reluctant to get into a SI situation with a possible denial. That would be a lengthy and expensive proposition at best, and at worst, the end of flying. Since I still had an...

I am sorry that I left this part out earlier, but thank you for all of your help. There is so much contradictory information out there that it is refreshing to get a straight answer. In talking to my hematologist, he told me that he wouldn't be getting another CT scan. Is that normal? I know...

I had a conversation with AOPA medical protection yesterday. She said that the FAA would be making an announcement in January about how 3rd class medical is to be handled and that there was a chance that I may not have to jump through the paperwork jungle at all. Since my current medical...

After the 7.9 INR scare, and the fact that I was out of the country and/or traveling for 2 weeks of it, I was testing twice a week. Now that I've had 5 week of good INRs I'm testing once a week. The diet is not so hard to do. I don't eat kale, chard, or brussel sprouts. I do miss...

Thanks, I will check him out. This transition to the 3rd class medical reform throws a monkey wrench into an already complicated issue.

I know that this is an old thread but I'm new to the PE world and need some guidance. I had surgery to my left knee (subchondroplasty) at the end of May this year. Three or four weeks later I had been back to exercising and had some pain in my left calf but thought that it was overexertion. I...