Find your treatment in the menu below to see what the DVLA say you must do. If you have more than one severe hypo while awake in a month period, stop driving and tell the DVLA. Your licence will be revoked. You can reapply for it 3 months later. Yes, follow the two-hour rule. Group 2 drivers have to do this twice a day using finger prick testing and record on a blood glucose meter, even if you're using Flash Glucose Monitoring. You must also check your blood sugars no more than two hours before you drive, every time you drive—and then every two hours of the journey.
When you have your annual licence review, you must be able to supply 3 months of uninterrupted evidence of your blood sugar readings from the twice a day finger prick tests on your blood glucose meter glucometer. You must be able to supply 3 months of uninterrupted evidence of your blood sugar readings on your blood glucose meter glucometer.
Having two hypos and not one hypo means you need assistance. It was a massive shock to lose my licence. I called the Diabetes UK helpline, and they followed through with everything they said they were going to do. Six weeks after coming out of hospital, I got my licence back. You must let them know straight away. To get your licence back, your healthcare team will need to support your reapplication. If an ambulance is called, the paramedics fill out a report giving the results of any tests, like a blood glucose test.
If you can answer questions normally, they should note this down and it can be helpful to your case. Their report also shows the time help was called and so how long you may have had to wait for treatment following a shock. This all helps, so make sure and ask for a copy of the ambulance report to show the DVLA. If the police arrived first, you could ask them for a report that says what time they were called and what was said between you.
If you have your licence revoked then you can nearly always reapply for it after some time. It depends why you lost your licence.
You can apply for a new licence up to eight weeks before the date given on your refusal notice. What happens then will depend on why your licence was taken away. We have lots more information on what happens if you lose your licence.
Our helpline has trained advisors who can help with specific problems or questions. Our online forum is also a useful way to get tips and advice from others with diabetes. Find out about all the DVLA rules about diabetes. A company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales with no. Skip to main navigation Skip to content. Breadcrumb Home guide to diabetes life with diabetes driving. Save for later Page saved! You can go back to this later in your Diabetes and Me Close.
Driving and diabetes. Most people with diabetes can hold a driving licence and can carry on driving. If you develop diabetes complications that make it harder for you to drive — like problems with your eyes retinopathy or nerve damage neuropathy. These rules and restrictions vary from state to state, and cover things like getting a license or reporting incidents of severe hypoglycemia. In these states and many others, regular re-evaluations are required to renew a license, and episodes of hypo- or hyperglycemia while driving may necessitate even further steps.
California has the strictest rules of all. In that state, any medical professional who treats a seizure which can result from a severe low must, by law, report the incident to the DMV, even if the seizure did not occur while the person was driving.
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