Questions often arise about how best to deal with medical issues that may affect your medical certificate; hypertension, prescription drug use, and pre-existing conditions.

In many cases, the correct paperwork from your treating physician, and maybe an explanation are all you need to keep your medical current.

Other cases involve more work from the pilot and their medical providers.

In many cases, if a condition is not disqualifying for the issuance of a certificate,

Dr. Archuleta at Aviation Medicals can help you with all aspects of obtaining or keeping your medical certificate.

Call to schedule a consultation to get the process started.

The following list are some common conditions that, with the correct paperwork from your doctor, I have the ability to issue your medical certificate.

Always check with Dr. Archuleta before your exam to make sure all the required documents have been obtained.

» Arthritis
» Asthma
» Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy (BPH)
» Cholelithiasis, asymptomatic

» Diabetes, diet controlled

» Eardrum Perforation

» Erectile Dysfunction medications
» Esophoria/Exophoria

» Glaucoma

» Gout on medication, examples

» GU cancers

» Hepatitis C

» Hypertension

» Hypothyroidism

» Intraocular Lens, Multifocal

» Kidney Stone
» LASIK
» Melanoma

» Migraine and Chronic Headache

» Motion Sickness

» Musculoskeletal injury

» Myringotomy

» Nephrectomy (non-cancer)

» Nephritis» Overactive Bladder

» Pneumothorax, Traumatic

» Polycystic Kidney Disease

» Pre-Diabetes

» Prostate Cancer

» Renal Cancer

» Situational Stress (bereavement), or adjustment disorder
» Testicular Cancer