Epilepsy/Seizures and driving.

[chilistrucker]

Hello all. Does anybody on here suffer with Epilepsy/Seizures and how does this affect your rights on having/keeping a driving licence. Just after general info really car wise, but if anyone has stories relating to a truck or bus licence I would also be very interested in this also.
Please PM me if you don't want to put it on a general forum, any help greatly appreciated, thanks, Neil

[chilistrucker]

whoami said:

Hi Neil, I thought you were over this now?

Sort of. I'd got over dealing with the medical panel at the Dvla as no matter what evidence I produced about my fitness to drive, they just point blank refused to listen. I'd exhausted every avenue, my MP, the transport minister and the Dvla all proved worthless as the medical panel just kept coming up with the same very dubious ruling on my case.
In light of the ombudsmans findings this week though with regards to the failings of the Dvla medical panel I feel it could certainly be worth trying to get these wrongs put right. It won't cost me anything other than my time, and I would take great satisfaction in getting anything that resembles an apology or my lorry licence back from the idiots that have made the last 2 years a struggle.

The ironic thing is though, I still haven't to this day in my lifetime ever suffered a seizure or had any treatment or medication that is seizure related, in fact I never had any medication at all after my injuries other than strong headache tablets.
The whole thing stinks as much today, as it did 2 years ago!!!

The ombudsmans findings certainly fill me with some hope.

[chilistrucker]

NorthDave said:

That does sound rubbish. Best of luck with getting it resolved!

Cheers.
Thanks Leroy, I did think it was a 12 month thing with the seizures.
I was searching stuff online, and found the minutes of 1 of the DVLA medical boards meetings. It stated that they themselves acknowledged that they needed to address the whole seizure risk categories as what they had in place, was generalizing to much.
No st Sherlocks. These minutes were from early this year iirc