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<blockquote data-quote="Brunneria" data-source="post: 1579088" data-attributes="member: 41816"><p>Hi and welcome!</p><p></p><p>If I were you, check out the DVLA regs for insulin using diabetics - not because you are one, but because there is some interesting info about hypos and what hypos need to be reported. Also some good guidance on what testing such diabetics need to do around driving. Some of that is translatable (using common sense!) into having RH.</p><p></p><p>There is a form, also available on the DVLA or the GOV.org website which you need.</p><p>This link should start you off with your info gathering</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/driving-medical-conditions" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/driving-medical-conditions</a></p><p>Half way down the page is a link to 'check if a health condition affects your driving' and lists all the applicable health conditions.</p><p>Hypoglycaemia is on that list.</p><p></p><p>I recently had to use the form myself, for a different medical condition. I knew about the hypoglycaemia, but not that pituitary gland tumours needed reporting too. Actually, it turns out that not once in the 20+ years that I have been diagnosed with it, have I or any doc, nurse or consultant that I have ever seen, suggested that I need to inform the DVLA. But there it is in the DVLA info. So you can imagine my horror, and my rapid submission of the doc! And you can also imagine my relief when a month later I got a letter saying 'Thank you for informing us. From the info you have given your driving is unaffected. Please let us know IMMEDIATELY if anything changes.'</p><p></p><p>Phew!!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brunneria, post: 1579088, member: 41816"] Hi and welcome! If I were you, check out the DVLA regs for insulin using diabetics - not because you are one, but because there is some interesting info about hypos and what hypos need to be reported. Also some good guidance on what testing such diabetics need to do around driving. Some of that is translatable (using common sense!) into having RH. There is a form, also available on the DVLA or the GOV.org website which you need. This link should start you off with your info gathering [URL]https://www.gov.uk/driving-medical-conditions[/URL] Half way down the page is a link to 'check if a health condition affects your driving' and lists all the applicable health conditions. Hypoglycaemia is on that list. I recently had to use the form myself, for a different medical condition. I knew about the hypoglycaemia, but not that pituitary gland tumours needed reporting too. Actually, it turns out that not once in the 20+ years that I have been diagnosed with it, have I or any doc, nurse or consultant that I have ever seen, suggested that I need to inform the DVLA. But there it is in the DVLA info. So you can imagine my horror, and my rapid submission of the doc! And you can also imagine my relief when a month later I got a letter saying 'Thank you for informing us. From the info you have given your driving is unaffected. Please let us know IMMEDIATELY if anything changes.' Phew!!! [/QUOTE]
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