Diabetics risk losing their driving license?

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior · 19 Sep 2011 at 19:20

Slightly offtopic, but should also remember needs to be declared for insurance purposes and potentially if caught lying your could be uninsured.

OpenToSuggestions · 19 Sep 2011 at 19:22

Crowort said:
Using insulin doesn't make you a type I. He doesn't sound like a late onset type I either, as the 'tablets' don't do anything for a type I. Anyway it isn't important or on topic.

No no no.

He went from type two (using tablets to control it) to type one and now takes insulin.

The doctor at the hospital did this and now he is fine. It sounds like you haven't been to medical school, yet the doctor has.

cm1179 · 19 Sep 2011 at 19:23

Vonhelmet said:
Doesn't sound like a bad idea getting that sort of thing off the road...

'that sort of thing'? nice!

Nymins · 19 Sep 2011 at 19:24

Vonhelmet said:
Doesn't sound like a bad idea getting that sort of thing off the road...

Excuse me?

quickshot89 · 19 Sep 2011 at 19:28

Vonhelmet said:
Doesn't sound like a bad idea getting that sort of thing off the road...

ill take that as a personal insult FYI, if this stings diabetics then everyone who wears glasses or is on any form of medication should be removed from driving

Sin_Chase · 19 Sep 2011 at 19:32

quickshot89 said:
ill take that as a personal insult FYI, if this stings diabetics then everyone who wears glasses or is on any form of medication should be removed from driving

Because glasses have a nasty habit of vanishing into thin air leaving the driver unable to control their vehicle :rolleyes:

uknowist · 19 Sep 2011 at 19:33

quickshot89 said:
ill take that as a personal insult FYI, if this stings diabetics then everyone who wears glasses or is on any form of medication should be removed from driving

Some are, depends on your eyesight/lens prescription really. Certain medications state not to drive whilst using them and the doctor will tell u not to drive if need be. A friend of mine went hypo badly on a plane while i was sat next to him, if he was behind the wheel of a car he would have definitely crashed. I think thats what vonhelmet was getting at.

MarcLister · 19 Sep 2011 at 19:39

I'm a type 1 and whenever I see a nurse or doctor they always ask about hypos. I say I've had some but then they always ask if I needed medical attention as a result. No, never have done. :confused:

Why not ask that in the first place then?

Crowort said:
Just an added warning to diabetics using insulin reading this. You all know you should test before driving and every 2 hours on long journeys, well the police have been known to take meters in the last few years if you are stopped. If you ain't done the tests you can be done for it.

Yes. We know.

cm1179 · 19 Sep 2011 at 19:40

Sin_Chase said:
Because glasses have a nasty habit of vanishing into thin air leaving the driver unable to control their vehicle

but because glasses are such an amazing invention people overlook the consequneces of someone with bad eyesight being in a similar position. john lennon (for example) was technically blind without his glasses, yet because glasses are so common place and solve the problem, there is no issue. if someone with similarily poor eyesight loses their glasses, or knocks them off whilst driving (i'm just thinking of a possible scenario there) then it will quite possibly be disastrous. they're lucky that a cure for their problem has been found, lots of other people with various other conditions are not as lucky, to make them suffer their independence because of this is backwards.

kylew · 19 Sep 2011 at 19:41

cm1179 said:
'that sort of thing'? nice!

Nymins said:
Excuse me?

quickshot89 said:
ill take that as a personal insult FYI, if this stings diabetics then everyone who wears glasses or is on any form of medication should be removed from driving

Why did you all miss the part where he said his manager would "come around" miles away from home? Here's the bit you all ignored:

Vonhelmet said:
A manager at work was telling me how she's sometimes been driving home known she's got a hypo coming on and has 'come to' miles from home.

Surely you really don't need to be told that's what he meant by "that sort of thing"? Just because she's diabetic, doesn't mean you have to take offence to it. If people are falling unconscious to wake up, still behind the wheel miles from home they shouldn't be driving. Stop being stupid.

Crowort · 19 Sep 2011 at 19:42

MarcLister said:
Yes. We know.

I should likely point out I'm a Type I but I don't drive

I'm sure you do know, it was more to poke the ones that know and don't do it.

quickshot89 · 19 Sep 2011 at 19:46

kylew said:
Why did you all miss the part where he said his manager would "come around" miles away from home? Here's the bit you all ignored:

Surely you really don't need to be told that's what he meant by "that sort of thing"? Just because she's diabetic, doesn't mean you have to take offence to it. If people are falling unconscious to wake up, still behind the wheel miles from home they shouldn't be driving. Stop being stupid.

read what i quoted, he said its a good idea to get that sort of thing off the road, which i find offensive

uknowist · 19 Sep 2011 at 19:56

quickshot89 said:
read what i quoted, he said its a good idea to get that sort of thing off the road, which i find offensive

I cant understand why, its a just statement of not wanting people to potentially blackout/lose control behind the wheel

cm1179 · 19 Sep 2011 at 19:59

uknowist said:
I cant understand why, its a just statement of not wanting people to potentially blackout/lose control behind the wheel

there's ways of putting things across, what he said was archaic

Andr3w · 19 Sep 2011 at 20:02

MY GF is diabetic, has been for 20 years. She has a hypo every now and again but it's nothing that would need paramedic help thankfully. If she can't sort herself out then usually there is somebody there to try and get her to drink a sugary drink enough to bring her round and let her eat a snack.

She always has loads of lucosade in the car and never drives without a little something before hand.

Edit: Also from reading this thread, a lot of you really need to learn about diabetes. You don't just randomly 'black out' for gods sake.

Sin_Chase · 19 Sep 2011 at 20:04

cm1179 said:
but because glasses are such an amazing invention people overlook the consequneces of someone with bad eyesight being in a similar position. john lennon (for example) was technically blind without his glasses, yet because glasses are so common place and solve the problem, there is no issue. if someone with similarily poor eyesight loses their glasses, or knocks them off whilst driving (i'm just thinking of a possible scenario there) then it will quite possibly be disastrous. they're lucky that a cure for their problem has been found, lots of other people with various other conditions are not as lucky, to make them suffer their independence because of this is backwards.

But you are still capable of standing on the brakes if your glasses fall off.

Bobcat · 19 Sep 2011 at 20:05

quickshot89 said:
read what i quoted, he said its a good idea to get that sort of thing off the road, which i find offensive

I took it that the 'sort of thing' that was being referred to was the sort of thing the manager was doing (actions of person), waking up from a hypo miles from home still behind the wheel driving.

kylew · 19 Sep 2011 at 20:06

quickshot89 said:
read what i quoted, he said its a good idea to get that sort of thing off the road, which i find offensive

Yes "that sort of thing" being people blacking out behind and waking up some distance from where they were. Are you purposefully misunderstanding? I don't understand how you can take offence without misunderstanding it on purpose.

kylew · 19 Sep 2011 at 20:10

Andr3w said:
MY GF is diabetic, has been for 20 years. She has a hypo every now and again but it's nothing that would need paramedic help thankfully. If she can't sort herself out then usually there is somebody there to try and get her to drink a sugary drink enough to bring her round and let her eat a snack.

She always has loads of lucozade in the car and never drives without a little something before hand.

Edit: Also from reading this thread, a lot of you really need to learn about diabetes. You don't just randomly 'black out' for gods sake.

I always have loads of lucozade too, though I'm not diabetic.

Also, I don't think anyone is claiming people just black out randomly (I haven't seen it anyway), Vonhelmet said the woman got in a car and drove knowing she had a hypo coming on.

Marine Iguana · 19 Sep 2011 at 20:11

Andr3w said:
MY GF is diabetic, has been for 20 years. She has a hypo every now and again but it's nothing that would need paramedic help thankfully. If she can't sort herself out then usually there is somebody there to try and get her to drink a sugary drink enough to bring her round and let her eat a snack.

She always has loads of lucosade in the car and never drives without a little something before hand.

Edit: Also from reading this thread, a lot of you really need to learn about diabetes. You don't just randomly 'black out' for gods sake.

Indeed I have my blood meter with me in the car and lucozade.

I have just got my license renewed this month and I have had 2 incidents in 20 years where I have gone into a hypo where I cannot do anything about it, But never even gone low during driving you know when you are going low it's not out of the blue