SPECIALIST / EXEMPTION PATH
The checker reads your verdict. The Kit gets you through the exam: documentation packets for your condition, the two 45-day form clocks run as a calendar, the official medication form packet, waiting-period calendars, failure recovery, and the examiner phone script.
Federal source: FMCSA Medical Examiner's Handbook 2024, Respiratory/Neurology (sleep disorders) · Rules checked October 2026
Advisory guidance treats narcolepsy as incompatible with certification while it is untreated or uncontrolled, because its core symptom is involuntary sleep. A treated case is evaluated on documented control by the sleep specialist — there is no published waiting-period number, and stimulant treatment for it is itself judged under the medication exception path.
The diagnosis untreated closes the door; documented, specialist-managed control is the only material that can reopen it, and it reopens it as an individual evaluation, not a rule.
Bring sleep-specialist records: diagnosis basis (sleep studies), treatment, and a control statement covering excessive daytime sleepiness. Expect your medication to be reviewed under the (b)(12)(ii) exception path.
This question is decided by the federal text together with its published advisory criteria — clocks, thresholds, and specialist files. The verdict above follows the cited criteria; your documentation is what proves you meet them.
Only a certified medical examiner on the National Registry can certify you. FreightVerdict reads the published federal standards — it does not certify, diagnose, or treat, and nothing here is medical advice.
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