I went to a chiropractor for my DOT and got a 3 month card. HELP!

Why don't you keep quiet about that other DOT physical and the alleged BP issue? Let the new doc take your BP and see what happens. If your BP is normal you will get a 2 year card.

 

It's not so much what they or they are not knowing, BP is straightforward. It has to show a minimum of 100/60 to be considered low normal medically stable. They wont take people to cath lab or surgery unless it holds 100/60.

I actually was certified long ago to take BP's but they threw the theory out the window and attached my hearing impairment to do a visual take instead. It's rock solid. 120/80 is perfect. Now... when you get towards maximum values it's going to approach somewhere in the range of 220/120 or so during intense activity involving high pulse rates which max is determined by your biological age before it goes into arrest. Usually it's sexual relations that bring on these high values. And no I don't take BP for that anyhow.

One driver did talk about flossing. It's the bacteria that falls from your mouth to the heart inside the blood stream then accumulates in one or more of the valves like a mass. Eventually a peice or all of it will break loose and thrombosis your lungs to death or worse or simply kill you by going to your brain and stroke you to death on the spot when you get old enough for that to happen.

 

Good call.

 

Outstanding. Keep big mouth shut. SMILE!!!!

 

If your in Indianapolis I can recommend a great doctor

 

Two aspirin a few hours before your physical will knock 5 points off your BP.
Just go to Schneider. If you can't pass that physical, you do not deserve to be driving a truck, and you are probably going to die soon anyway. It is a bonofide cattle walk.

 

Not necessarily die this week as Dave put it so mildly. Sometimes peoples lives have been saved by DOT physicals when a issue is detected and ultimately traced to really important medical problems that need to wage battle now.

If a DOT is bad, try a aviation physical. I would not get away writing no on a form to everything. Those doctors are crafty and know exactly what to look for, primarly into the heart system. It needs to be in good shape. Mine is not. Not for Eisenhower Tunnel at 12500 feet anymore. Another doc says he can fix it easy peasy with a artificial part like replacing a hose or something in a car. Im not sure if I wanna carry my rotting body that far into the future.

 

Very good friend had a valve done almost 20 years ago, he would have died. He looked like death warmed over by the time the VA got around to it, but when I picked him up like 5 days after the operation he looked like a new man.