Hjt43
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Hi
This might sound like a stupid question.... And I don't want to intentionally "lie" on my questionnaire but.
I only just found out I have to do a dvla medical to get my licence back! It's in 11 days. I have been drinking up until I found out about it. What do I put on my questionnaire about my last drink date? Do the cdt levels have to correspond with the dates?
Full info below... If you want to read it before commentating. Please someone help me
Thanks - seriously worried and stressed!
The DVLA has been a Shambles throughout all of this
I have my DVLA medical in 11days time following a trip to a&e on 28th December 2020 with pnomeia and pluracy whilst in hospital I was treated for an alcohol withdrawal seizure and told by the alcohol specialist lady that if I notified the DVLA for a seizure and "surrendered" my license I would get it back after 6 months - after a voluntary stint in a private rehab clinic I reapplied thinking I had done the right thing and would get it back in June 2021. I spoke to the DVLA numerous times (when you could actually get through!!!!!) And was reassured this was the case? It was not! I had answered honestly on the questionnaire and said I had had a problem with alcohol and gave the date my last drink 28th December 2020. They contacted my GP who told them I'd undergone a medical detox so it was extended to 12 months... Fine I did my 12 months of abstinence reapplied again in October to get it back in January 2022 1yr after I surrendered it. Only to be told if it was ever even F'ing possible to contact them!!!?! " That there was a backlog and nobody could give me a time frame... Totally and utterly useless. This is a government body! Anyway I started drinking at home with my husband as a normal person at weekends but tbh this is not within the gov guidelines.
Anyway they wrote to my Dr who wrote back saying I'd been abstinent for 1yr 3 months. I thought that was the end of it and hello driving licence.... NO! Then I get a letter from the DVLA saying that I need a medical? Nowhere ever has that been mentioned!!! So my question is when do I say my last drink was? My cdt levels are obviously not going to match if I say 28th December 2020? But if I'm honest and say 2 weeks ago, will this go against me? I'm terrified! I really really need my license back. It's been terrible.i live in the middle of nowhere, I can't take my kids to school, my local bus goes once a day with one return and it's a mile walk there and back. It's shit!
This might sound like a stupid question.... And I don't want to intentionally "lie" on my questionnaire but.
I only just found out I have to do a dvla medical to get my licence back! It's in 11 days. I have been drinking up until I found out about it. What do I put on my questionnaire about my last drink date? Do the cdt levels have to correspond with the dates?
Full info below... If you want to read it before commentating. Please someone help me
Thanks - seriously worried and stressed!
The DVLA has been a Shambles throughout all of this
I have my DVLA medical in 11days time following a trip to a&e on 28th December 2020 with pnomeia and pluracy whilst in hospital I was treated for an alcohol withdrawal seizure and told by the alcohol specialist lady that if I notified the DVLA for a seizure and "surrendered" my license I would get it back after 6 months - after a voluntary stint in a private rehab clinic I reapplied thinking I had done the right thing and would get it back in June 2021. I spoke to the DVLA numerous times (when you could actually get through!!!!!) And was reassured this was the case? It was not! I had answered honestly on the questionnaire and said I had had a problem with alcohol and gave the date my last drink 28th December 2020. They contacted my GP who told them I'd undergone a medical detox so it was extended to 12 months... Fine I did my 12 months of abstinence reapplied again in October to get it back in January 2022 1yr after I surrendered it. Only to be told if it was ever even F'ing possible to contact them!!!?! " That there was a backlog and nobody could give me a time frame... Totally and utterly useless. This is a government body! Anyway I started drinking at home with my husband as a normal person at weekends but tbh this is not within the gov guidelines.
Anyway they wrote to my Dr who wrote back saying I'd been abstinent for 1yr 3 months. I thought that was the end of it and hello driving licence.... NO! Then I get a letter from the DVLA saying that I need a medical? Nowhere ever has that been mentioned!!! So my question is when do I say my last drink was? My cdt levels are obviously not going to match if I say 28th December 2020? But if I'm honest and say 2 weeks ago, will this go against me? I'm terrified! I really really need my license back. It's been terrible.i live in the middle of nowhere, I can't take my kids to school, my local bus goes once a day with one return and it's a mile walk there and back. It's shit!