I was having actually sudden unconscious pass outs when upright and no doctor at that point got my licence taken away! and I was forced to drive unsafe (for centrelink appointments and others). They didnt care I was driving and just ignored me when I was saying it was dangerous for me to drive.. they obviously played down my issues due to me having ME/CFS.
Irronically a doctor finally got my licence taken from me after I'd already stopped driving myself and sold my car knowing Im too unsafe. (He got my licence cancelled behind my back. I then went to a different doctor and got it given back to me. Its not like Im dumb and dont know that Im not safe to drive!!! I do thou even thou I got rid of my car and dont drive, I do want to hold my licence still for the day I recover enough to be safe to drive or that I could drive in an extreme emegency situation (It would to be a very ununsual extreme situation so is quite unlikely to ever occur).
These doctors out there with their ME ignorance in which they tell people to ignore their symptoms, are putting people in danger. It wont be your doctor up for damages if you have an accident in the car. I have had car accidents due to the ME/CFS (back when I was having gov depts forcing me to drive to their appointments and not listening to me that I wasnt safe to be doing so).. it costed me a lot of money! (esp if you are as unlucky as I was and hit a new car).
If you know your brain is being very slow to react to situations, you are like a drunk driver on the road and just awaiting for a disaster to happen. (it may not be you which causes an accident but the lack of being able to respond quickly enough to avoid another doing something dumb .. and that could be a little child running across a road in which you are too slow to break). With my brain how it is, I cannot instantly react to things... everything takes time for me to think over.
Fortunately, i have always had warning when i needed to lie down - and have never instantly blacked out. - that is awful.
Although i have been known to throw myself into bushes and on park benches to urgently get lieing down - not to mention the floor. It was only the advice on PR that finally made sense of why and what was going on phyically with me.
The sly doctor removiing your license is just another example of a power trip. Who wasnt doing it for your best interests - as you say you know yourself when not to drive - as do i.
It was when my G.P. Encouraged me to his aggressive yogi breathing srssions that gave me my latest relapse that years later i am still trying to get back to baseline - but he didnt care i was driving home afterwards and i was in no state to be doing so - i collapsed a couple of times on my patio after these sessions. I managed myself so well i NEVER collapsed like that before doing these sessions.
Doctors and psychologists SHOULD be being held responsible. In fact it was the arrogant practice managers fault that my sickness clsim ran out. I was trying to organise another sickness note via phone and email and he was adamant i had to go into surgery.
I told him i could not drive and there was no public transport and i wasnt well enough anyway. So again - i was put under considersble pressure to drive to the doctors.
I was unable and so i lost my claim. Its always the way - those thst should be helping us are instead csusing untold problems.
Same thing when I had the lumps appear around my ear and tremendous head pressure - i was supposed to go for MRI - but couldnt drive there.... They didnt tell me i could get an ambulance etc. They just dont care, are not sensible nor practical in their advice.
God when i did crawl in the nurse suggested i get a charity job! and have a baby - since i was single she said with anyone , a one night stand!!!!!!!!!!!!!
