Automatic CDL drop

If you read my post this is a result of a drunk driver. In 1984 I was hit broadside at 95 mph. It broke both hips, right knee and foot, plus ruptured my gut. I spent weeks in intensive care until the internal bleeding stopped. Then I spent another 3 months in the hospital so the hips knee and foot could heal. My diet had nothing to do with the stomach troubles. But, my diet is the result of several dietitians over decades working with me. It is mostly fat free and white meat or fish. I avoid most everything that is enjoyable but also peppers sweet or hot, onions, beans, dairy.......... I have managed to keep things under control for years but sometimes even a Moose needs a bit of help.

BTW sarcasm only works with people that have feelings. Enjoy the life but one day your feelings will get the better of you. In the meantime I will dedicate my next weeks ####s to you. See I can give a ####.

 

In all honesty, I thought the same thing at first. I generally skim over a comment then go back and read it closer. After I took the time to read and comprehend your question I understood. However, I do have a question. Has your doctor spoken to you about your diet? I am not an expert, but I want to remember hearing somebody say diet can have a big effect on these kinds of problems!

 

Yes diet has been a big concern the last 35 years. Constantly I am sent to another dietitian and asked to be violated again with a scope. I have had surgeries to repair damage, dietitians work up ideas and in the end it is my own diet diary that has solved the issue. Vitamin D has a HUGE effect on digestion and such. I am on a 50000 unit dose now to start returning my blood levels to where they should be.

Driving and maintaining my diet while on the road will be a challenge but I have been working on it at home so when I am in a truck it wont be an issue. Especially with a trainer I do not want to be a burden of what I can and cannot eat. Now a days my list of foods I can eat is shorter than the foods I cannot.

On the upside I know how to cook some amazing dishes when the wife and I travel. Experimenting with a diet sucks if you rely on fast food or dining out.

 

Don't come off on me about not reading your post.

You first said that everyone has this problem. You mentioned a drunk driver in passing but gave no details.
Not everyone has tummy problems, and many are caused by what one eats.

And I was not being sarcastic.

 

Arkansas banned that two and half years ago, leaving those who still possessed a small amount remaining in their homes unable to order any.

I would have looked into that myself if Arkansas did not ban it about the time I learned about it. As I recall the first pain management clinic had me maxed out on medicine at about 110 mme daily which is nuts looking back on it. Way more than needed. One time my caregiver rescued me when I fell into my dinner plate face first which was the one event that caused many good things to happen starting at the hospital and changing to a much much better doctor then.

The original doctor as of 2015 in Medicare was in the top ten in the entire nation serving approximately between two to three thousand patients a month with a range of prescriptions. This was from freely availible data on Medicare. All licensed doctors are there by state in that site where you can research everything about their practices before you go see them. I consider myself somewhat a taken advantage of, the money flowing to that first mill was just too lucrative between my insurance (About 300 to 1000 a month) and copays I think were 100 twice monthly if demanded on contract. (Which was legally binding then and a BIG problem for any other doctor.)

Multiply that by several thousand one could consider you make a fantastic living. If you don't kill someone.

At one point prescriptions exceeded 1000.00 a month insured with about a 50 each copay times four. Two of those months were a experimentation away from the shorts such as the modern xtampaER which is the reformulated Oxycontin. That one was the one that put me into the hospital. And there is a reason doctors don't prescribe that &^%$. How bad was that one? Well that depends on how you see it. If you sleep, get up in the morning take a pill enjoying a few cups of coffee to fight it while fixing breakfast, suddenly you wake up again this time at 3 pm and breakfast is destroyed on the stove having stayed in place on your feet about 8 hours as the drug raged in the body and mind.

I had a lawyer look into that one. But we decided that was not a fight we wanted to get into, it would have been a dustup as we say in the south. As I understand it today, there were thousands of suits against that particular maker of that drug.

I for one like life as it is today, whatever the problems are.

 

Grumpy, lomotil IS NOT A SCHEDULE 2 drug.


It is a schedule 5 (V) drug.

IT won't show up on DOT drug test unless you take 40 times the max dose at one time for a few days.

 

I did get a response from a CDL examiner and they said Lomotil is a Sch5 drug and should not pose any problems for any commercial driver. At higher doses it does cause drowsiness but I am far from those dosages.

Like many posted I am probably making more of this than I needed to. problem resolved. Thanks to all.