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<blockquote data-quote="Brunneria" data-source="post: 1709944" data-attributes="member: 41816"><p>[USER=29475]@Lemonie[/USER] </p><p></p><p>Check this link out.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/driving-medical-conditions" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/driving-medical-conditions</a></p><p>And </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/health-conditions-and-driving" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/health-conditions-and-driving</a></p><p>There are many different medical conditions which prohibit or place conditions on driving (I have 2. The DVLA know about them and have not imposed any conditions on me when driving)</p><p></p><p>Non medicated type 2 diabetics are not required to inform the DVLA, and do not have required blood glucose levels in order to drive.</p><p></p><p>If medicated for T2D, then requirements for driving depend on the type of medication.</p><p></p><p>People who experience hypos, whether diabetic or not, should always inform the DVLA. This is the tricky one. Most people only discover they have hypos when they get nasty enough symptoms to go to the doc and be diagnosed with reactive hypoglycaemia, or insulinoma, or whatever. So if someone doesn’t realise that their symptoms are hypos, then they could be making unsound decisions when driving without having a clue about what is happening.</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile (as said above) many non diabetics experience time below 4mmol/l with no hypo symptoms and no loss of decision making capacity.</p><p></p><p>Hope that clarifies.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brunneria, post: 1709944, member: 41816"] [USER=29475]@Lemonie[/USER] Check this link out. [URL]https://www.gov.uk/driving-medical-conditions[/URL] And [URL]https://www.gov.uk/health-conditions-and-driving[/URL] There are many different medical conditions which prohibit or place conditions on driving (I have 2. The DVLA know about them and have not imposed any conditions on me when driving) Non medicated type 2 diabetics are not required to inform the DVLA, and do not have required blood glucose levels in order to drive. If medicated for T2D, then requirements for driving depend on the type of medication. People who experience hypos, whether diabetic or not, should always inform the DVLA. This is the tricky one. Most people only discover they have hypos when they get nasty enough symptoms to go to the doc and be diagnosed with reactive hypoglycaemia, or insulinoma, or whatever. So if someone doesn’t realise that their symptoms are hypos, then they could be making unsound decisions when driving without having a clue about what is happening. Meanwhile (as said above) many non diabetics experience time below 4mmol/l with no hypo symptoms and no loss of decision making capacity. Hope that clarifies. [/QUOTE]
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