PROFILE-VARICOCELE

[elvaricocele]

Hi, i created this topic because im joninf the army on august '08 and i have a huge doubt

well i used to have "varicocele" which is varicose being in the left testicule and its and afection relationated with male infertility, so when the doctor told me that i have this problem i told he that i would be entering in the armyin aug, so he told me that "varicocele" is always on issue on the army and it can be maybe a disqualification for the combat unit, so i went to surgery ten days
ago and now im okay
this afection is not related to any physical health or something its only relationated with varicosee veins in my balls(like the ones your moms have in the legs)
it doesn afect my performance at all in fact im in very good shape i can run 2km in 6 min and all that stuff but it can be an issue that can lower my profile to make it a non combat profile?

i know that no one of you its on the medical board of the tzava, but maybe you know someone who had this issue


well thanks a lot and sorry for my bad english

saludos de argentina

[Dan from Boston]

Welcome to the forum, Javier.

I have not heard of this problem before and something tells me it's unlikely that most soldiers who may have this problem would share it with other people who actually know them, as you can probably understand. Also, I am not connected and never have been to any authority in charge of determining health profiles.

But I will say this -- there are a lot of factors which may disqualify someone from service in a combat unit (or in the military altogether) in diaspora countries but not in Israel. I have a friend who couldn't get into the U.S. Coast Guard because he's allergic to shellfish, for example. In Israel, though, it's usually up to the discretion of the doctor based on whether he thinks it could be a problem for you and/or your fellow soldiers. A past injury may automatically lower your profile to something too low to be in a combat unit, but your performance (or just your pleading) may convince an IDF doctor to raise your profile. If you don't have to take medication for this, if it doesn't impair any physical function, and if it's not something that could come back, your chances are better that even if you get a low health profile that you can get it raised later on.

Again, please remember that what I say is not official and that I never made these decisions nor have first-hand knowledge about them. But in my experience, I have seen physical profiles as low as 45 get raised to 82 (just enough for infantry).

[elvaricocele]

thanks a lot for your response dan, a friend of mine is serving at tzanhanim at this time and he told me ,as you, that it wolud depnd on the doctor, so the best thing that i can do(i think) is to show me as guywhich the only thing that he can do at this time its to defend his motherland
i would pray for this to happen
thanks for your quick response