SHORT CERT LIKELY — 1-YEAR
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: Appendix A to Part 391, §H; FMCSA Medical Examiner's Handbook 2024, Neurology · Rules checked October 2026
Advisory criteria: a waiting period of 1 year after a TIA before certification, then 1-year certificates with neurology/cardiology risk-factor management documented.
One year, then annual cards. The wait exists because a TIA is a warning shot for stroke — the year is the evidence that it stayed a warning.
Certificate this points to: 1-YEAR certificates, while the standard's monitoring continues.
Bring neurology records, brain and vessel imaging, and documentation that risk factors (blood pressure, rhythm, lipids) are being managed.
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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