Driven to Despair - Report on DVLA medical section

astrocan:

When the information has been recieved by us it can take up to two weeks to appear on your record

Why?
What are they doing with it?
Appearing on you record only means that they know they have got it…somewhere.
It does not mean that anyone has even looked at it let alone done anything with it.
Effectively it takes two weeks to get from the post room to the bottom of someones intray.
Disgraceful.

Hope your case progresses soon Spook.
Have you started a complaint?

It just gets better and better… :unamused: I received another letter at the start of this week, we’re now going to contact a consultant anaesthetist about me. That had me puzzled honestly. I did have a surgical procedure carried out in January 2008, they didn’t have a clue what was causing the dizziness, so they sent me to a heart specialist and he inserted a loop recorder in my chest, which I had in for 3 years.

It was horrific, lol. I can laugh about it now, but they nearly lost me. :open_mouth: When my wife came back to collect me and take me home, it looked like I’d been attacked by a maniac - blood everywhere. The consultant was also supposed to be doing the surgery, but in the end I got the work experience boy I think. I’m laid there, wide awake, obviously not loving it, feeling the cutting on my chest, then getting injected with more anaesthetic when I complained about the pain. The work experience boy was told to make a pocket in my chest, and he couldn’t fit the recorder in (it was about the size of a pen drive) so the consultant says just stick your finger in and wiggle it about to make the cut bigger. They they wondered why my blood pressure started falling and why I was feeling ill lol.

But I digress… I phoned up the DVLA and got someone who was actually helpful!!! She said that the Professor had no records about me. I said that’s strange, seeing as how I’d talked to him when the letter came through. Anyway, they were going to contact the Dr at the hospital, but he’d retired and this consultant anaesthetist had taken over his work. I said great, but I don’t ever remember seeing his predecessor. She then went and looked at the records and spoke to the team and comes back and says that the problem isn’t the dizziness, that’s been fine since they gave me my car licence back in 2014. The problem is my sleep apnoea!! I’ve been controlled and using my CPAP machine for over 7 years and the specialist nurse I’ve been seeing for reviews every year is totally happy with me.

So they are going to get my GP to get me in and fill out a medical form whilst I’m there and go from there. So I’m waiting for them to contact my doctors now, and if I haven’t heard from them by the end of next week, I’m to contact them again.

But if the problem was just the sleep apnoea, why didn’t they make that clear and actually contact the right people?