disqualification

It can be done, but it was much less difficult when trucks had vent windows.

 

Why?

 

Seek an opinion from a different doctor

 

It's not often I put people into ignore for questions that defy common sense such as pee bombs. Come on wtf? Filthy animal. lol.

 

One of the reasons is constant and continuous vibrations that effect the kidneys. This occurs with truck drivers, bus drivers, construction equipment operators, and jack hammer operators.
Boxers and other professional fighters often suffer serious kidney damage due to excessive blows to their kidneys, along with serious damage to other organs, as the liver.
From my understanding, kidneys can become either partially or totally dislodged, otherwise severely malfunctioning due to excessive vibrations from various types of machinery.

God bless every American and their families! God bless the U.S.A.!

OTR & LTL - over the mountains - through the woods - coast to coast - sea to shining sea

The OTR & LTL truck drivers of America are positively the driving force of our economy.

 

I do pee a lot but just figured it was all that coffee and bottled water.

 

Maybe, depends on what the problems turns out to be. Can it be controlled? In my driving career I have had several situations where I had to stay at home because of Kidney Infections. This country's addiction to sugar and processed foods is slowly killing us. When I was an active driver my blood pressure was too high. My other lab works always came back bad. I was more heavy then I should have been. After I retired I stopped drinking soda, I stopped eating simple candy. I stopped eating buffets. I do enjoy a cup of coffee some and a bowl of ice cream at night. Since my retirement I have lost a fair bit of weight. My blood pressure is if anything too low and my labs always come back in the normal range. Hand your Kidneys are just a filter and they are trying to tell you something. Listen to them get this medical issue resolved and hopefully you can get back behind the wheel.

 

It's very difficult to get wholesome food. You sort of have to bypass the big box store and get it at the farm or general store where they make the stuff. Sometimes going into Canada to get a thousand dollars worth of food for a month and change which is pretty good quality compared to what they don't sell in the states...

The first thing that started this whole food problem is when they took away the individual farmers ability to gather seeds for next years planting from his harvest. That was almost 60 years ago and it went downhill from there.

 

Most of the time I agree with you, but I can't on this one. This situation is market driven. There is little healthy food available for truckers because over the last 30 years they have NOT wanted it. Remember I have been around truckers since I was a small child. Truckers have had large stomachs and large butts for years, but since the 80s I have noticed a fair sample of drivers have went beyond just overweight to morbidly obese. Drivers had rather grab a burger and fries and a 400 or 600 OZ monster sugared drink and keep on driving. This is starting to show up with more and more drivers becoming medically disqualified. Heart problems and diabetes is running unchecked and out of control. This is one reason the full menu 24/7 truck stop restaurants are either closing totally or shorting hours.

This topic of health and lifestyle in regard to trucking is something I take very personally. My father used those dang diet pills for years in the 60s and 70s and I honestly believe these things helped kill him. I have developed epilepsy and I sometimes wonder if this might have had something to do with my driving career and some of the chemicals I have been exposed to.

I might be a minority of one on these boards but I am 100% convinced that IF DRIVERS DEMANDED them the market would start to put more healthy foods out. By the way it is even possible to eat healthier even while driving.

 

I take your post at a good value. I understand where you are coming from now.

We do whatever we can to avoid the fast food sugar monster you speak of. Our weights are not obese, however we have experienced food that is not that great and led to excessive weight gain for one of us.

Food is the one biggest problem in life on the road and I cannot imagine going out there munching on the excessively processed and sugared foods you speak of. I would not be able to control my weight living like that.

Hell at home I lost about 70 pounds in the last 2 years sitting around by changing away from unhealthy foods where possible. I can use a little more loss to get below 190 and stay there, but all of my family were beefs so Im the runt. My brother is approaching 400 last time I saw him. We buried people due to obesity.

It's ok not to agree with me and say your side, who knows I will learn something today.

Drivers are what? 5 million in a Nation of 330 million? How do you think they are in a position to demand anything when truckstops have closed up and converted to self serve walk in walk out fast food?

Orientation is even worse. The companies might feed you something based on chicken fried in some way that everyone likes but some should not eat.

I grew up in a Tavern situation where our License, half is food. Rest is alcohol. The foods ranged from seafood, crab etc all the way up to sandwiches bought with basic stock from either the Commissary on base or sysco etc. All of us did well with the fresh cooked to order food. The best was fish caught at sea and brought in by locals with ocean going boats on charter to go out and get em.