I had to quit driving for 7 months due to seeing double, but since being on predisone I can see better and have gone back to driving. There are a lot of MG people on this website that drive. You just have to know when you are able and when you are not. So you have not gotten a drivers license yet? Did I understand that right?

Driving does make me tired. My eyes get weak. Driving just uses alot of muscles. I am now able to make a trip of an hour and a half to visit my mom for the night. I drive here in town to shop. I would never drive an hour away to visit or shop and expect to drive home in evening. I can never predict how tired I will get. It is a challenge.
Ann

thank you very much this helps me a lot, yes i dont have a licence yet i sent off for it as i am learning to drive but they were wanting more information about my condition not many people seem to know about it when i tell people do u find u have the same problem

I drive during the day, but I do have double vision. Never at night, as all the extra lights just really disorient me. One of the residents at the hospital thought I should not be driving, but no other doctor has said this. I know that my license is due in 3 years and that double vision may prevent them from re-issuing, but I plan on being in remission then.

When I renewed my license, I did not put myasthenia gravis down fearing they might not renew. I want it left up to me whether or not I am up to driving. I did not drive for a few months due to extreme double vision but adapted by taping over one lens of my sunglasses and after the double vision left, knowing how far I could drive until eye fatigue.
~sherry

I had to go in this year for my licience since I was up for the renewal. It was no big deal. I would not mention the disease and do the best to get licience. If you can't drive now then you won't but we can have such good days and I always feel we need our licience for when we are better. I didn't drive for 6 months and it was so good to drive again.
and yes.....people don't really have a clue about our disease.They do the best they can.
Ann

I think most of us got our licenses before we had such severe symptoms, so we have been able to renew and judge whether driving is a good idea or not. The DMV offices vary, some are very rigiid and won't know what to do with the information when they get it because it won't fit into their regulations. No one knows what to do with an off and on disability. If you are in remission, then MG is really irrelevant and need not be considered. In Virginia, at least, we didn't have to use our local DMV, which practically shut down with everyone trying to decide what to do about my daughter who didn't have a high school degree, but was in college. We finally had to get the guidance counselor at the high school to give her a paper saying she had been counseled about the importance of getting an education. So you can't really depend on their being reasonable. This was for the permit. We went to another DMV for the license. b.

If you are having symptoms involving breathing, I don't know how your consultant tells you that you have remission. Doesn't sound normal to me. You are suffering while walking etc...? I say that because I know that I am not in remission. Been getting treatment for one year basically. I believe you are in a better place than I am but, I can imagine the breathlessness, and I know of which you speak. Today it happened a little....

Today for me: I woke @9AM, took my cellcept @10AM, took 60MG of mestinon @noon, and 30MG at 1:30, and went out...

With my wife, I walked up hills, mounds, and around in the largest park in the area today, and I walked around for well over an hour and three miles. I felt great afterwards, except a little tight in the chest, which passed quickly. Today was my lowest intake of Mestinon ever! WOOOHOOO! Cellcept with Dinner @5:30 and I took 60MG Mestinon @7PM!

Going to bed shortly with my timespan..

Anyway, if you can see fine, I see no reason you cannot drive. I see very well, just as before forthemostpart. I currently have very little eye issues, and doubled is when I wake for a minute and spotty at worst as long as I have maintained my mestinon. It has never been a real problem for me even at my worse when I sometimes drove with one eye open.

happy holidays to U and keep us posted!

TJ

My first symtom was double vision. I had it for about four months, now it comes and goes. If it comes I can usually pull it back, at least for a while. When it was really bad I put a patch on my eye. Worked really well, just had to be careful. Now if I am on the freeway and it starts, I close one eye, and then switch off when I can't hold it aly longer. I haven't had any problems except at night. I don't attempt it, I don't do well at night under normal circumstances.

Its one thing deciding to risk your own life. Its quite another to risk somebody elses in an auto crash.

I agree with GwynnC. My vision fluctuates a lot. I could get myself to the store and back if need be but I refuse to endanger others and have taken myself off the road for months at a time. (having a perfectly good vehicle sitting in my drive for months at a time drives the kids crazy when they have car problems. Lol)

TJ
You need to check your instructions
I really think cellcept is on empty stomach.
If I am wrong I need to know because it is inconvient for me to have empty stomach since I love to snack.... ha
My instructions say No meal 2 hours prior or within 1 hour of taking.
Maybe this is why I am loosing weight ....ha
Ann

I feel that I need to give a better explanation. I spoke to the dr. about driving. He said it should be safe with a patch on. People who are blind in one I drive. I am very careful, and when I said the I close one eye, that is until I can pull off and put a patch on. I have never felt that I am selfish or uncaring. I have never had a ticket or an accident and I am 52. I didn't mean to sound flippant about it. It is serious. I think sometimes I should listen and not speak, because I don't know as much as sometimes I think I do. You made me really think, thank you.

I spoke to the dr. about driving. He said it should be safe with a patch on. People who are blind in one I drive.

Excellent point, I know a few people who are blind in one eye and drive. I myself have been driving with tape over one lens of my glasses since I was dxed over 7 years ago. Before retiring I logged well over 150,000 miles in a company vehicle, and at least 60,000 plus miles on a motorcycle. I have also taken and past an evac class ( emergency vehicle driving test ie. ambulance, fire trucks etc.) 3 times. Depth perception is not as good with one eye, but I haven't had any problems.
Again, with MG, it is dependent on each individual.
The short answer to your question is, yes, you can drive with MG.

Best of luck to you
Terry in PA

The only time I didn't drive was when I was in a coma. The only time I didn't ride my motorcycle was when I was so severely weakened by symptoms that I would have run the risk of hurting myself. MG has never prevented me from driving safely. I drive safer than most people without MG, because I obey traffic laws and everything I learned in driver education 40+ years ago.

Curt