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<blockquote data-quote="Antje77" data-source="post: 2314796" data-attributes="member: 372207"><p>Driving rules only concerns diabetics on glucose lowering medication, which does not include metformin.</p><p>Readings in the higher 3's are perfectly normal in non diabetics, and for pregnant T1's the goal seems to be ranging from 3.5 nowadays, on insulin!</p><p>Without glucose lowering meds you have no obligation to test whenever, although I'd not drive if you FEEL hypo. </p><p>Feeling hypo can happen even at numbers above 10, if your body has become used to much higher numbers While those false hypo's apparently aren't dangerous, physically, it is of course dangerous to do things like driving or navigating stairs when you feel like you are dying and your brain doesn't work properly.</p><p></p><p>The reason you see everything below 4 counted as hypo is because this is the norm for T1's on insulin, the threshold of 4 is chosen to give us a bit of a safety net before dropping to dangerous levels. Of course this makes sense for T2's on insulin or sulfonylurea's like gliclazide as well. </p><p></p><p>Random fact: Countries using mg/dl instead of mmol/l use 70mg/dl as the hypo threshold. Which translates to 3.9, not 4. People like clear numbers for important things.</p><p></p><p>A 3.8 in a non diabetic or a T2 on diet only, or diet and metformin is no reason for concern, it's a perfect number!</p><p>The 3.8 being measured with a Libre also means it might well have been higher than that, and even with a fingerprick it could have been well above 4, seeing as there is a margin to the readings.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Antje77, post: 2314796, member: 372207"] Driving rules only concerns diabetics on glucose lowering medication, which does not include metformin. Readings in the higher 3's are perfectly normal in non diabetics, and for pregnant T1's the goal seems to be ranging from 3.5 nowadays, on insulin! Without glucose lowering meds you have no obligation to test whenever, although I'd not drive if you FEEL hypo. Feeling hypo can happen even at numbers above 10, if your body has become used to much higher numbers While those false hypo's apparently aren't dangerous, physically, it is of course dangerous to do things like driving or navigating stairs when you feel like you are dying and your brain doesn't work properly. The reason you see everything below 4 counted as hypo is because this is the norm for T1's on insulin, the threshold of 4 is chosen to give us a bit of a safety net before dropping to dangerous levels. Of course this makes sense for T2's on insulin or sulfonylurea's like gliclazide as well. Random fact: Countries using mg/dl instead of mmol/l use 70mg/dl as the hypo threshold. Which translates to 3.9, not 4. People like clear numbers for important things. A 3.8 in a non diabetic or a T2 on diet only, or diet and metformin is no reason for concern, it's a perfect number! The 3.8 being measured with a Libre also means it might well have been higher than that, and even with a fingerprick it could have been well above 4, seeing as there is a margin to the readings. [/QUOTE]
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