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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EllieM" data-source="post: 2001844" data-attributes="member: 372717">I do now, but didn't ten(?) years ago.  About twenty years ago I drove when hypo and (luckily and astonishingly) didn't have an accident. My daughter asked me if I was driving to the hospital...  Not sure when the rules to test before driving came in in the UK (I wasn't aware of them when I left in 1999), and as far as I know there aren't any such rules in Australia or New Zealand (where I now live). But my hypo awareness is not as good as it used to be and I'm just not prepared to drive without the confidence that I'm not going hypo. But like [USER=181361]@helensaramay[/USER], I no longer drive every day.And when I was pregnant (I lost hypo awareness during pregnancy) with my son (now 27) I left work so hypo that a colleague drove me home because I didn't realise how bad I was. I'm not sure what would have happened if he hadn't noticed and I'd attempted to drive myself.  (I was at the "I'm not hypo" denial stage, which I luckily don't seem to get any more, maybe because I haven't had any really bad hypos recently.) So thank you, Simon, for saving my life and that of my son.Best to get in the habit where you automatically check, in my opinion, even if you  don't legally have to.</blockquote>

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