NEETS
New Member
Hi there,
Im new to this site and this whole discussion. I've been reading up A LOT about this whole DVLA medical exam for HRO's and frankly I think the whole thing is utterly shambolic! I lost my licence 16 months ago because I got into my car after being attacked on a dark country road whilst waiting for a taxi! The only safe place for me to go was to my car and even then it was pitch black so I drove less than half a mile and seemingly the only other people around, apart from my attacker, were the overzealous police. The seemed very uninterested in the attacker and his whereabouts and more interested in 'processing' me despite being merely less than a mile away from my point of origin.
So, now, as a high risk offender (in their opinion - mine is that I was a victim that night! but I shan't harp on about the conviction I got from a heartless magistrate - yes, I contested it and no, I didn't win!) I have to take a DVLA medical. Im due to get my licence back on around 7th July and have a medical booked for this coming Monday. I'm not a heavy drinker but I am stressed beyond belief! In all honesty, I have friends on the road who have't been done for drink driving who wouldn't pass this test in a million years and yet, here I am, the person who drinks the least out of my group of friends who has to jump through the DVLA's unbelievable hoops - and they are just that, everyone is making money off this awful situation. As if the shame of it all isn't enough!
I decided to take the matter into my own hands however and beat them to it (just so I know where I stand) and got an independent blood test done this week with medichecks (again, another company fleecing people who are scared sh**tless about the outcome from the DVLA'S Dr - not our own!!). Today I got the results back but they don't have anything in the report other than a result of the following:
CHO: DEFECIENT TRANSFERRIN .7% CHO TH deficient Transferrin
Im new to this site and this whole discussion. I've been reading up A LOT about this whole DVLA medical exam for HRO's and frankly I think the whole thing is utterly shambolic! I lost my licence 16 months ago because I got into my car after being attacked on a dark country road whilst waiting for a taxi! The only safe place for me to go was to my car and even then it was pitch black so I drove less than half a mile and seemingly the only other people around, apart from my attacker, were the overzealous police. The seemed very uninterested in the attacker and his whereabouts and more interested in 'processing' me despite being merely less than a mile away from my point of origin.
So, now, as a high risk offender (in their opinion - mine is that I was a victim that night! but I shan't harp on about the conviction I got from a heartless magistrate - yes, I contested it and no, I didn't win!) I have to take a DVLA medical. Im due to get my licence back on around 7th July and have a medical booked for this coming Monday. I'm not a heavy drinker but I am stressed beyond belief! In all honesty, I have friends on the road who have't been done for drink driving who wouldn't pass this test in a million years and yet, here I am, the person who drinks the least out of my group of friends who has to jump through the DVLA's unbelievable hoops - and they are just that, everyone is making money off this awful situation. As if the shame of it all isn't enough!
I decided to take the matter into my own hands however and beat them to it (just so I know where I stand) and got an independent blood test done this week with medichecks (again, another company fleecing people who are scared sh**tless about the outcome from the DVLA'S Dr - not our own!!). Today I got the results back but they don't have anything in the report other than a result of the following:
CHO: DEFECIENT TRANSFERRIN .7% CHO TH deficient Transferrin