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tigger

tigger

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I've just had to send my licence off for renewal (standard automatic one). On the form my answers were:
Hypo awareness - full
Hypos while driving - none
Disabling hypos - 2 , both while asleep, pregnant/early post natal stage when hormones do awful things to sugars
What is the chance I'll get it renewed?
 
Probably low!
When were the hypos? in the last year? :crazy: :?:
DVLA have a tick-box mentality. You probably made it easy for you to remove your licence! :thumbdown:
They make no distinction between asleep & awake! How do you know it was disabling if you were asleep?Did someone have to wake you and administer glucose/glucagon?
 
Yes and one of those was in hospital as I was on scbu with my twins when it happened so I'm sure it's documented somewhere. That's really not fair as I don't drive when I'm asleep!!!
 
I'll be honest - my application is always a slight twisting of the truth as I NEVER own up to any hypos at all.

I am lucky though and have never had any with which I needed medical assistance.

I hate to say it but I think you may get turned down for your renewal. Unfair I know but that is how it goes.

:roll:
 
Is there anything I can do to sway it in my favour? I asked the hospital to assist although whether they'll remember is another matter. I'm a really careful driver. I never drive w/out testing and wait until my bs is above 5 (i once waited 30 mins for my bs to get to that while out, wasting strips by testing every 5 mins in the hope I could go). I also didn't drive for about 10 wks while pregnant as I kept on having these sudden dips from 10 to 3 (usually as,soon as I finished work and stress levels went down). Basically I've always been a responsible driver and it seems very unfair. Oh well I guess I can hope.
 
Tigger, have you kept records of your BG since the incident in hospital (I download my record from my meter regularly just in case of allegations) and whatv was the second hypo? If you ca n prove that the hypos were due to a specific incident and since you have had no reoccurence there may be a case for appeal.
 
Tigger, reading yor account(Today, 14:30 ) of the occurrence in August, It sounds less like an uncontrolled hypo, and more like you were in control but couldn't get BASIC assistance to hold your 2 babies to render self assistance for your hypo. If you had been in a normal circumstances, rather than having the nursing staff REFUSING TO HELP (IMHO an old tramp passing could have rendered better support)allowing you to treat your hypo would you still have classed it as an uncontrolled hypo?
 
The one in the scbu is not down to you though is it? Your care was down to the nurses,
 
Unfortunately not. The one on the other thread was in post-natal not scbu and I don't class that as needing assistance as I'd already treated it I was just getting very distressed by the babies crying and I didn't feel it was yet safe for me to hold them.

The one in scbu was after a night up with both babies, after the 6-7.30am feed testing, injecting, looking at what there was to eat (we had to provide all the food for me as the babies were the patients not me and as a breast feeding mother I got 1 sandwich and a desert labelled "not suitable for diabetics" a day which is not enough for anyone to survive on let alone a breast feeding mother of twins!!) discovering it was only dry crackers, asking my husband to see if he could take some jam from the canteen downstairs, he apparently saying it was closed, me going back to sleep not really acknowledging what was going on and my blood sugar dropping from 6-1 as I slept and I came round to find myself enacting the part of the patient in "casualty" which was highly unpleasant. So definitely assistance but not normal circumstances. It would never have happened if we'd been at home as 1. there would have been food available and 2. my husband would not have had to dash off to be with my older child and would probably have worked out that anything I said was to be ignored if he didn't see me eat. Oh and 3. I wasn't going anywhere near a car in that sort of state of exhaustion.
 
Never the less I still think Carbsrok is correct whilst you in a special unit your care is the responsibility of the special care unit, I would mention it in an attachment to the form, giving details and dates may also be useful.

Good luck :thumbup:

Edit: Just reread your answer to Carbsrok and believe I may have got the wrong end of the stick a bit, but I'll leave my answer up anyway :D

As for not owning up to hypos ellecook, that is your choice but they wont be taking your word for it they will also be writing to your Doctor/Endo who will have your medical records, but obviously if you have not needed assistance for any hypos will not be noted on them and you should not mention it anyway. You only need to 'confess' to hypos needing 3rd party intervention.

If you fail to disclose any relevant fact on your application and it was later discovered it would be viewed as fraud and taken quite seriously I would imagine.
 
Does anyone know how long you have to wait to reapply for the licence if they do refuse to give it?
 
And the letter came today....

IDDT told me what to do to reapply and the dvla were quite helpful eventually (the bursting into tears may have had something to do with it). I just have to survive not getting out the house much with two screaming babies until that happens :( and the buggy got a puncture to complete my wonderful day.
 
I sent my renewal in November saw GP as requested by DVLA it's now with the medical team and I declared I had hypos but without any help and my GP backed me up saying that I am fit to drive just hope they agree my hypos are at night and were not that often
 
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