Hi want a bit of advice on appealing my medical. Basically i tryed to join the paras last year,and failed my medical on 5 different things,4 of them are now up and the last one i failed on still has a year to go,and thats eczema,so what im asking is do you think its worth appealing since i have only...

just eat plenty of ice cream lol thats what makes my bmi go up.I also got told to just keep on appealing my medical but i went on holiday after my appeal failed so havent got round to it yet and not really sure if it will make a differnce.

join the paras my bmi was 31 and was to hight its now 26 and i got my 1.5mile run down from 14 mins to 9 mins,so i was really pissed off doing all the hard work to just get turned down by somthing as daft as exzema.

im a terrazzo tiler very boring only good thing is its great pay so i usually only work around 9 months of the year at most then go on holidays the rest.

yes i tryed that and it got turned down. I think its cause its so busy the now so just have to do my normal job that i hate for the next year and a half

yea i got a small patch on my wrist,dont understand how it makes you fail a medical at the end of the day,its only a small bit of itchy skin.

its 3 years for the exzema thats what i failed my medical on still got just under 18 months to go its a real pain in the arse.

a find it harder to run on the tredmill if its a 5 mile run,start to get bored after about 3 miles and need to push myself had the last 2

Eczema.......Now that can easily flare up in desert conditions and when exposed to the blistering sun. If you have have panic attacks I wonder what would happen if you get into battle. So why chose the Army why not try Navy where the conditions are a lot better for this sort of thing is the navy mo...

do you have a gum sheild in when milling ?

i think you have to not sufferd for depression for 3 years before you can apply again.

yes mate ive had 1 interview after my barb but it was with my recruiter make sure you have a shave my recruiter wasnt inpressed with my ruggered look ha

my runs really caught up with with me last week took 2 days rest in a row but feel great now had a drink 1st drink in about 4 months lol

im 14 st 2 pounds and am pure drunk haha getting married next friday and and 6 ft 1 inch bmi is around 27

theres a guy a talk to at the R U UP FOR IT training day i go to on wednesdays that does 30 with 20kg bag pack on and 65 with no weights,he was asking people if there was a record cause he thinks he could maybe break it the guy is a machine we did the 1.5mile run togeather and he got 8 mins 15 i thi...