I'm prescribed Adderall and klonopin can I still drive? Will employers hire me?

Yeah, sorry, but that's not true. Once you click that box (which you have to as a CDL holder) you allow the insurance to audit your records. I speak from experience here.

 

We're glad we could be of assistance!

 

That's a brutal bear....


I've tried Adderall once... I don't have ADHD... It ####ed me up right. I assembled, organized, established my mother's first computer and the desk to go with it... I'm generally pretty focused. This was focus without rest or abandon (and a motor tick - tongue rolling). Ugh... Somethings you don't do twice.

Good luck OP. You may find you're SOL, but digging in will at least provide you insight.

 

Mental overdriving is a form of indication you are withdrawing from a substance.

Im pretty focused too. I had many shrinks in my childhood and realized those are for the parents, not for me. I managed to get out of that. Normal kids don't get hauled into shrinks.

With that said, I attended school several times in which a certain percentage of people displayed illness, limitations or conditions that did not allow them to attend normal school. I recall a particular one in which I told one of the staffers there that I was not like the others and did not appreciate getting rushed from one class to another like a herd of cattle being rounded up out of a stampede. I was removed from there in a couple days so...that was a good thing. There is a life long sensitivity towards the Handicapped as a result of the people Ive run into during those years. But at the same time, I consider myself one of the first (Not the first, there were other deaf who drove dump trucks and the like...) who managed to go over the road. There was quite a bit of discrimination over the years, I recall a Ternimal Manager telling me what a previous deaf driver did to him and I schooled him that Im not that deaf and actually he brought it on himself showing discrimination. I never heard from or saw him again which was either good or bad.

Regarding one of the posters who said that the seizures would be a joy to fix, if that is a reason one of the meds are being prescribed, you can bet that you will not be allowed to drive a 18 wheeler with seizures. It's just too dangerous, might take you 40 cars plus to get stopped during one.

Regarding the one who was trying to score prescription inside a truckstop, are you kidding me? There is either Walgreens in town or cocaine or something similar. Sounds like a lunch counter story to me.

I thought this thread was leading towards a beating of a dead horse. But it still lives yet.

 

Whew... X..... I chuckle, but it's pretty ####ed up.... My old man suffers grand mal's - naive, young, inexperienced, my younger brother and I watched him pound his face off of a granite table through a bay window as my mother ushered us outside (ages: 8 & 6) - blood everywhere. A few years later after their divorce, when my brother and I would spend the summers with dad and he'd seize - I was the one tackling him to subdue the thrashing, or remove him from furniture or liquid foods, while my brother was the help-runner. Some of this i always accredited towards the willingness to enter the fray... I fear next to nothing. A space hasn't been created for that. My brother is the same way... his willingness to fight matches my own.

NY State revoked his license.
Then came the fines for continuing to drive. Thankfully he quit that game.

Our youngest brother suffers petit-mal seizures. Absence seizures, tonic-clonic. He experiences the 'aura', he knows its coming, but doesn't truly know until he just....... drops.
I've pulled him out of closets, corners, bathtubs... people in ####ing frozen, squealing, panicked hysterics in the background... Ugh...

Forward.
March.
To Battle.

 

The only thing I have to add is to repeat what I typed before. No matter what the drug. Be careful with having it in your system on or off duty if it can be seen in a drug screen. If you have such medications in your system while driving a CMV with no record of the medical examiner that did your medical card exam approving them you might be in a bit of trouble. I can't emphasize this strongly enough. You have an accident and afterward get drug screened and they are found those drugs had better be listed on the long form, or your carrier might be paying out a settlement and you might find yourself out of a job and not able to get a driving job until you finish the SAP/return to duty process. Your carrier can't approve them and your prescribing physician can't approve them unless of course they are a registered Medical Examiner.

 

Because I don't want to gross people out I won't show a photo of the scaring and bruising on my body from falls because of epileptic seizures. Their not a bit fun and the constant headache is not fun either. I can't take narcotic painkillers. I lost both my CDL and Virginia license because of this.

 

I have some battle experience as you do with two differences, I usually find something to jam into the mouth to prevent tounge getting swallowed by a particular person who is seizing and that person would just drop wherever or whatever he might be doing Even eating dinner. Plop. Most people cannot and will not deal with it and just scream and hollar. But Ive seen it before and go do what I can. Most important is get him or her away from anything and everything that will hurt, cut or kill.

I don't think I ever seen a driver seize on the road. Ive seen just about everything else though.

I know about the Aura. I get those hours before a really bad migraine episode. I do everything I can to work around what is coming. But on days like that I generally find a cave that is nice and dark to stay until it's over. The ER can always shove some demerol if it really gets bad.

 

You, sir, are a strong man despite your neurology trying to wind you down.