Chances of getting an asthma history waived?
Hello everyone,
Looking for some odds I can get a history of asthma waived to join the air national guard? Backstory, it’s basically a fake diagnosis that’s been on my medical record.
When I was a kid, colds made me wheeze. My brother had an asthma attack once, so my parents were paranoid I may do likewise. Never did, the worst I ever got was an annoying wheeze that I could take a puff from an inhaler out of convenience to not squeak. On my medical history it’s labeled as “exercise induced asthma.”
I’ve always had an inhaler prescribed, and used it maybe a handful of times during the last decade, purely out of convenience sake if I had a bad cold or something and let out a wheeze. Never anything close to threatening my well being. I’ve never thought about joining the military and just didn’t see a reason to try to get it off my record.
For context of how little it affects me….i was a competitive swimmer for 9 years, two at the collegiate level. While swimming I participated in a hypoxia training study where I did hour long, high intensity cardio workouts in a box that the oxygen levels were lowered to high altitude equivalents. 14,000 ft plus. Did this study for a few months. No issues with asthma in the slightest doing it. It’s just been a thing I got labeled with as a kid that’s never impacted me but also never thought was a big deal to have on the old record. Now it may fuck me though.
Anyone know if I can get it waved if I can pass any lung test they throw at me?
Posted Dec 29, 2025, 3:26 AM UTC