Can I lie to the doctor at my DOT physical for trucking school?

Those tests are almost impossible to pass no matter how much you study.

 

Yesterday at a physical my BP was 122/82 and I almost #### my pants, (but I didn’t cause I knew that added stress might raise the BP.)

 

For some companies when you get hired don't you have to sign a form that they can check on your previous records medical included? If you do get through school and pass the DOT tests you may be screwed when looking for a job.

 

I cannot sleep wearing a football helmet.

 

Whether the DOT doc will check, I don’t know, but there is a data base out there showing what meds you’ve been prescribed, and the prescribing physician’s registry number. The doc would have a fairly good idea what medical conditions you have by looking at what meds you’re on.

 

Maybe you should try a race car driver helmet.

 

And by law any US Doctor is required to check the Prescription Monitoring Board Data on you personally. If you have EVER filled one pill or 10000 pills in your lifetime in any state of the USA, then the information, medicines and who prescribed it, who filled it and any associated comments are therin. Set in stone forever. thats why you are waiting that 10 minutes in the exam room. They are checking.

Some of those medicines will reveal the true problems and the urine will dump the sugar to kaput the physical. And that would be that.

One poster said nurses don't know what they are doing with BP. I know how to pull BP Manually, setting theory aside, this is what you do as a deaf person taking BP manual.

Put the cuff on and add air until around 180 to 200 or so any old spot but not too hard. Release air at a slow steady rate. Watch the falling needle. Once the pressure falls off enough to allow the blood to move the needle will beat showing that top pressure number. Maintain your air loss until the needle quits beating as it continues to fall. Thats your bottom pressure number. Anything over 100/60 is stable. Anything over 140/90 not DOT, and certainly anything say 160/110 and above is stroke territory. Your maximum BP is determined by your age. Most people can carry 220 over 120 or so temporarily for a few minutes in very high activity or combat. Anything below 100/60 you are in trouble. When you get down towards around say 50 over 20 you are in a coma, unconsious or otherwise dead or soon to be. Certainly not doing well.

The idea that nurses don't know what they are doing is hooey, they have to pass their Nursing Board exam which covers theory and actual BP taking. Without that they dont get to be nurses.

Just a little schooling.

With the PMB in place, there is no point lying about medicines, medical conditions that require them and so on.

 

pictures or it didnt happen

 

If you ain't cheating. You ain't trying.

 

I find that's what works best for me.