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Driving
Thu, 10/10/2013 - 21:27Comments
Re: Driving
Submitted by ProfessionalDreamer on Fri, 2013-10-11 - 18:44
Wow I really wanted to start back driving to just get my freedom back a bit. I really hate everyone telling me don't drive
but with what you just said (actually hearing from someone who understands what I'm going through) I think it's best I wait a while longer
Wow I really wanted to start back driving to just get my freedom back a bit. I really hate everyone telling me don't drive
but with what you just said (actually hearing from someone who understands what I'm going through) I think it's best I wait a while longer
Re: Driving
Submitted by just_joe on Sat, 2013-10-12 - 11:28
Basically the DMV is keeping accidents from happening. I also understand what it is like to not drive. I know how in case of emergency.
I also know that I will need to go at least 6 months in my state. I have done that before but I also had a seizure within 2 months after that period. I have lived over 50 years without a license but I also had brothers that drove. They got the option of driving here and there for my step father while I got the choice of doing the chores that needed to be done. THey got to kick back while I busted my butt. I also know I had money while they needed a car. I paid for the used car but I was the one that said when it was used. In other wordds I had them driving me many times they didn't want to but they had transportation. They also knew I could fix the engine if needed.
Laws and regulations have been created to help everybody and understand that it only takes a second or two to have an accident.
If you are needing to get somewhere there are ways. Friends may pick you up for work. I worked with some and they got fresh coffee and even a lunch now and then considering always had lef overs. Oh and giving them money for gas now and then alwways helped keep their costs down
Basically the DMV is keeping accidents from happening. I also understand what it is like to not drive. I know how in case of emergency.
I also know that I will need to go at least 6 months in my state. I have done that before but I also had a seizure within 2 months after that period. I have lived over 50 years without a license but I also had brothers that drove. They got the option of driving here and there for my step father while I got the choice of doing the chores that needed to be done. THey got to kick back while I busted my butt. I also know I had money while they needed a car. I paid for the used car but I was the one that said when it was used. In other wordds I had them driving me many times they didn't want to but they had transportation. They also knew I could fix the engine if needed.
Laws and regulations have been created to help everybody and understand that it only takes a second or two to have an accident.
If you are needing to get somewhere there are ways. Friends may pick you up for work. I worked with some and they got fresh coffee and even a lunch now and then considering always had lef overs. Oh and giving them money for gas now and then alwways helped keep their costs down
Re: Driving
Submitted by Harry T. on Tue, 2013-11-05 - 16:40
Re: Driving
Submitted by ral on Tue, 2013-11-05 - 14:38
most of the time no ... occassionally yes.
most of the time no ... occassionally yes.
Re: Driving
Submitted by DBL on Wed, 2013-11-06 - 12:12
Re: Driving
Submitted by Marleneemm on Wed, 2013-11-06 - 12:21
I was diagnosed at the age of 6 in 1963.
I'd been having lots of "Absence seizures" while in school and at home.
I would stand infront of the fridge,take the milk bottle out of it....then I'd
stand there and shake...then you'd hear a loud CRASH.
Didn't have my first Grand-Mal till age 15,while getting ready for highschool.
Two days later I was put on then experimental TEGRETOL.
I was also taking 30 MG Valimum, and 375MG of Dexedrine 3 times a day
I was put on 600 mg of TEGRETOL...200mg at breakfast,lunch,dinner.
Seizures stopped completely.
Till I was 32 when a doctor removed me from the TEGRETOL stupidly.
I went from zero seizures to NINE A DAY for 1 week!!!
Called my then insurance agent and asked him for his wife's doctor's name.
He'd mentioned his wife was seeing a wonderful doctor.
Told him I needed the number ASAP.
Called for an appointment and two days later began seeing him.
He restarted the Tegretol immediately....NO Seizures for close to twenty eight years!!!
Doctor said in 1990 that I could drive???
Still haven't gotten my lisence...but want to as a "just in case" when I'm with husband
Re: Driving
Submitted by lasermansx on Sun, 2013-11-17 - 06:05
Re: Driving
Submitted by Fairy20 on Sun, 2013-11-17 - 13:40
Yes, I have driverslessons.
In my country when you have an insult you may don't drive for a half year.
When you get a insult in that half year then you have to wait for a year.
Secretly did I have very little insults, little moments in the morning feeling funny and sometimes confused. When I ask my doctor she said that that little insults are. I just said that everything is okay.
When I have that'funny' little moments also later in the day, then I decide not to drive.
Now I am young, everyone drive, but I know that maybe ther came a moment I may not drive...
My mother is not happy with my dessicion, but I am conceited...
Yes, I have driverslessons.
In my country when you have an insult you may don't drive for a half year.
When you get a insult in that half year then you have to wait for a year.
Secretly did I have very little insults, little moments in the morning feeling funny and sometimes confused. When I ask my doctor she said that that little insults are. I just said that everything is okay.
When I have that'funny' little moments also later in the day, then I decide not to drive.
Now I am young, everyone drive, but I know that maybe ther came a moment I may not drive...
My mother is not happy with my dessicion, but I am conceited...
Re: Driving
Submitted by just_joe on Fri, 2013-10-11 - 17:45
Nope I was diagnosed with epilepsy when I was 13. At 23 I had gone 3+ years without a seizure but I had a bad complex partial which had morphed into a focal motor seizure. I have not been seizure since then. I have had time where I had no seizures in a month but the next month I may have 6. My seizures have goten fewer with less intensity. I can have one while In a crowd and many people would not know I had one. My seizures last split seconds to a few seconds. All it takes in 1 second and a car can crash.
Nope I was diagnosed with epilepsy when I was 13. At 23 I had gone 3+ years without a seizure but I had a bad complex partial which had morphed into a focal motor seizure. I have not been seizure since then. I have had time where I had no seizures in a month but the next month I may have 6. My seizures have goten fewer with less intensity. I can have one while In a crowd and many people would not know I had one. My seizures last split seconds to a few seconds. All it takes in 1 second and a car can crash.