A 90 day DOT card is fair warning to fix the root cause of the problem medically without reliance on medicine to continue recieving a DOT medical card.
Most people with regular car licenses including myself have a stack of medical issues, some untreated. Imagine if we all had to go to medical to keep our car licenses.
If you looked in top RIGHT of your TTR forum Page you will see a Magnifying Glass and a Search function. Typing in your title into it reveals 17 results. Google Revealed much more and associated with FMCSA as well. Here are some of the TTR links pulled by sugar in urine.
https://www.thetruckersreport.com/t...a-hair-follicle-test-now.475315/#post-6840569
Need the Most help EVER!
TMC and tarps
Diabetes Type II and my Medical Card question.
DOT Physical question ???
https://www.thetruckersreport.com/t...ol-testing-decoded.161536/page-8#post-3773961
urine protein ketones
Blood sugar levels
That should help you be more able to find information in the future and then open a thread to discuss the results if any.
If you stated you gained weight and now you want it off, that's hard to do. Anyone can put on weight fast. But getting it off takes months. If not years. Whatever it is you ate to put on that weight fast has to stop.
As far as seeing if you will fail a test or not, home kits will give you a idea but they cannot stand up to a proper Medical Test and associated Labs. If you pass great. if you fail, then you fail.
If you Suspect Type Two Diabetes, you NEED to absolutely visit a family physician at your home and explain that you have suspecting it due to your situation with the DOT medical card. The family doctor will determine relatively quickly if you do have Type two diabetes or more dangerous, Type One and so on.
It might be a situation in which your life is saved and quality is improved by this DOT medical situation. I choose to celebrate that. Rather than cry about how you might not be able to drive a 18 wheeler. I said might. Be positive.
DOT Urine Sugar Levels
Discussion in 'Driver Health' started by ZArmstrong, Oct 13, 2018.
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