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<blockquote data-quote="Jan28." data-source="post: 1436763" data-attributes="member: 394836"><p>H everyone, Very interested in what i have been reading above. I would like to relay my story to you. I am a Type1 diabetic and have been for 27 years. I have been on the insulin pump for a year.</p><p>This is regarding my driving licence which I have just lost due to having 2 hypos in a year. The first was May last year when I was just getting used to counting carbs, I was at an overnight stay at a hotel when my hotel called an ambulance for me. This hypo I am not desputing. On the second occasion which was in February I had been having problems with my pump (error messages coming up and blank screens) I called Medtronic and went through some checks over the phone and said it seemed fine, any more problems to call them back. I was nightshift that night, everything was fine. My husband was nightshift also and got up about 2pm leaving me to sleep. He came back upstairs about 2.45pm when he found me having what looked like a fit. He was extremely worried and called an ambulance. I actually came round before the ambulance arrived. They just waited till my blood sugars had risen and then left. I had no idea how this had happened until the next day when checking my machine when going into insulin settings which I very rarely go into 3 of my setting had changed. Normally they are between 0.5 and 0.6. Two setting were at 7 and one was at 0.925 at the time when the hypo occured the previous day. I actually got an overdose from the machine. When my machine went blank the previous day it started again 5 mins later when it told me a restart was required. I am sure this is when the settings have changed.</p><p>My doctor at the hospital told me to contact the DVLA, which I did and now my licence has been taken off me. I am appealing against this and now have a lawyer dealing with it. I do not think its fair that I have had my licence taken from me when it was not my fault. I have been driving for 33 years and never had any points on my licence and always check my blood before driving. I am fully aware of hypos. My doctor at the hospital is backing me all the way. They downloaded my pump and seen all the error messages on it.</p><p>Can you all please tell me what you think of this?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jan28., post: 1436763, member: 394836"] H everyone, Very interested in what i have been reading above. I would like to relay my story to you. I am a Type1 diabetic and have been for 27 years. I have been on the insulin pump for a year. This is regarding my driving licence which I have just lost due to having 2 hypos in a year. The first was May last year when I was just getting used to counting carbs, I was at an overnight stay at a hotel when my hotel called an ambulance for me. This hypo I am not desputing. On the second occasion which was in February I had been having problems with my pump (error messages coming up and blank screens) I called Medtronic and went through some checks over the phone and said it seemed fine, any more problems to call them back. I was nightshift that night, everything was fine. My husband was nightshift also and got up about 2pm leaving me to sleep. He came back upstairs about 2.45pm when he found me having what looked like a fit. He was extremely worried and called an ambulance. I actually came round before the ambulance arrived. They just waited till my blood sugars had risen and then left. I had no idea how this had happened until the next day when checking my machine when going into insulin settings which I very rarely go into 3 of my setting had changed. Normally they are between 0.5 and 0.6. Two setting were at 7 and one was at 0.925 at the time when the hypo occured the previous day. I actually got an overdose from the machine. When my machine went blank the previous day it started again 5 mins later when it told me a restart was required. I am sure this is when the settings have changed. My doctor at the hospital told me to contact the DVLA, which I did and now my licence has been taken off me. I am appealing against this and now have a lawyer dealing with it. I do not think its fair that I have had my licence taken from me when it was not my fault. I have been driving for 33 years and never had any points on my licence and always check my blood before driving. I am fully aware of hypos. My doctor at the hospital is backing me all the way. They downloaded my pump and seen all the error messages on it. Can you all please tell me what you think of this? [/QUOTE]
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