My neurologist says I will never have a seizure, but he refuses to write a report in favour of me
This is the bit I find difficult to understand - if a specialist can be as specific as that ( "
says I will never have . . . . . ." ) why on earth is he unwilling to commit that opinion to paper ? I don't know in which country this case is mainly occurring now, but in my view that situation is certainly worth pressing and challenging a bit more !
All of the previous posted statements are probably true to some extent.
EEG's certainly were a routine part of SOME (not all) initial class 1 medicals in the 1990's. There were not enough facilities to do it on all candidates, so it was done more or less randomly. Obviously on any candidate where there was a neurological indication, but thereafter almost randomly on something like every tenth candidate to arrive at the
Belgrano. But, just like the ill-fated Chest X-Ray a decade previously, the pick-up of abnormalities was abysmally small, thereby not really justifying the great expense of continuing to do the test at all. The EEG as part of the initial JAR class 1 was therefore eventually ditched - I'm not 100% sure of when, but 2005 seems about right !
The problem for our original poster here, though, is that once an entry like an "
abnormal EEG" is on one's records, it's very difficult indeed to shake it off ! Furthermore, with the coming of the Europe-wide JAA system, information such as this can be shared between regulatory authorities more or less at the click of a mouse !
Back to the very beginning, then. IF a neurology specialist is quite sure that this person's EEG shows nothing which is a threat to aviation safety then he really must be persuaded to have the courage of his convictions, and commit that opinion to paper. Apparently, in some places decisions on difficult clinical cases such as this are made on a case-by-case, individual-by-individual basis. Maybe if that kind of view were taken in this case our poster could be exonerated, and allowed to fly ?
Keep up the pressure - - - - - and good luck !