HRO Medical and CDT test

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flshfrnd

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Hi, reposting this from another forum in case anyone here has come across a situation similar to mine.

I have to attend an HRO Medical on 20 August.

I have been teetotal for over a year so I am not concerned about failing from alcohol misuse.

However I have read quite a lot about the medical literature on CDT and certain conditions that can cause 'false positives'. A lot of the medical literature suggests that CDT should be used in conjunction with another marker (like elevated GGT) to confirm alcohol misuse. My LFT's including GGT were last done in May and are fine. But as far as I'm aware the DVLA goes on CDT alone.

However, the condition that concerns me is obesity, as I have had a medical condition called Polymyalgia rheumatica that causes body-wide pain, for the last year. It got to the point where I could hardly get out of bed, and I spoke to a Dr (hence the May blood test). I'm now on steroids and the condition is much improved but due to the inactivity of this (and lockdown) and the effects of steroids used to treat it, I have put on 4 stone and am now classified as 'obese' (just).

If you fail the blood test, is it possible to appeal? Do appeals ever succeed? What is involved in appealing, if it is possible?

Thank you.
 
Being overweight is not going to affect your CDT result, nor, I think, will Polymyalgia rheumatica. The main thing to cause false positives is a liver condition that is so serious that you probably should not be driving anyway!
You need to put your health situation on the DR1 form And the medication you take, and in the unlikely event that yo7 did have raised CDT then they will take this into account.

There is a mechanism where if your licence is refused on medical grounds then you can appeal against this to the Magistrates court.
Whilst DVLA did not say how many cases were involved, in the last report on appeals that I saw they said that in a 6 month period, they had won every court appeal that they were involved in!
 
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