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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oldvatr" data-source="post: 1315120" data-attributes="member: 196898">DVLA seem to have woken up to the fact that 'one size does NOT fit all'  The guide of 5 mmol/l is only an advisory at best and was never mandatory.  It is set higher than the hypo upper band limit of 3,9 mmol/l simply to allow for inaccuracies in taking a reading, which could be +/- 1 mmol/l   Today that error allowance is 0,8 mmol/l (15%), but it is only a suggestion since I personally have experienced a drop from 7 mmol/l down to 2.1 within an hour of eating a meal, and I am not on insulin,,,,,,, Even now, I use 2 meters in parallel, and I can have a hypo event with one meter reading around 3.2, but the other reading around 6.  Since I have no way of proving either meter as faulty, I can only rely on my symptoms to guide me, Now that my body is keto enabled, I am more resiliant in my hypo's so can go lower than I used to.  But I still aim for 5 on the lower reading meter as my target for driving.Instead, the DVLA has made the declaration of taking care to avoid hypo's on each driver as the mandatory requirement and there is a further requirement put on us to report any hypo event that required third party intervention (e.g. paramedics).  There is a further move to place this onus on medical staff to report such events as a statuatory requirement in the NHS,  but that is not yet in place.</blockquote>

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