What happens when your doctor says "don't drive"..

What DOES happen?
How do doctors inform the DVLA? How do you get caught? How cast iron is
that sort of advice, and what the hell is hypoglycemia anyway?

Someone had a wonderful ride home and a shite doctors appointment.

 

Hypoglycemia means you have to keep a packet of Werthers handy,
just like Uncle Nigel.

 

You shouldn't want to drive if you are having hypoglycemic events. Really.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Eiron

Heh. I have to have sugar-free Werthers these days.

Hypoglycaemia is low blood-sugar, cat. Don't drive. Really. If it's bad
enough you can black out, and it can affect your judgement and motor
skills long before then.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (Fallen apart) Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single"
Norton 850 Commando Kawasaki GTR1400

 

Really?

<fx:voom>

 

It's treatable, right? So I should be OKd to drive again at some point
(soon?)
Tis an arse, I was loving riding again even in the cold with my new
heated bits and bobs, and now I've had to stick the keys at the back of a
drawer to avoid the temptation.

Seriously though, I've been told to keep glucose to hand, and if I
collapse sod off to A&E in case I need to be put on a drip (!?)

They didn't suggest a good source of glucose though, and my head was
swimming too much from the "don't drive" bit to ask. Are boiled sweets
the way forward?

 

Look just accept the fact that for you it is all over, you are fucked
and you are going to have to deal with it. Remind me again, what bike
is it you ride?

 

They're ok but not as fast as a 500, although they do stick to the road
if you give them a good lick.

 

Lucozade and mars bars.

 

Sex magic.

 

Heh.

 

I just happen to have this boiled sweet right here my dear...

It's under my mac.

--
Dan L

Too much time to think, too little to do.


http://thebikeshed.spaces.live.com/
1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr

BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005/6/7)
X-FOT#000
DIAABTCOD #26
BOMB#18 (slow)
OMF#11

 

cat wibbled

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/7167029.stm

I'f guess something similar ...

--
Paul - xxx

'96/'97 Landrover Discovery 300 Tdi 'Big and Butch'
'98 Suzuki DR 200 Djebel 'Small but perfectly formed'
Dyna Tech Cro-Mo comp "When I feel fit enough'

 

Poor little bugger, fancy going through life called "Jago"

Perhaps his old man used to own or lust after a crap kit-car before
becoming a sugar-spazz.

--
Dan L

Too much time to think, too little to do.


http://thebikeshed.spaces.live.com/
1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr

BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005/6/7)
X-FOT#000
DIAABTCOD #26
BOMB#18 (slow)
OMF#11

 

No use to you, son; it's a pre-crashed er5.

 

<marks thread uninteresting>

 

cat says...

You're not Jasmine in disguise, are you?

--
Lozzo
Triumph Daytona 955i SE (Niged-out)
Suzuki SV650 K3 (For sale - email for details)
Honda CBR600 F-W trackbike
Yamaha SR250 SpazzTrakka
Suzuki GSX-R750L
Suzkui TS50X x2

 

A little before my time, I think.
They did make more than one er5, you know?

 

cat says...

No-one ever pre-disastered one better than Jas though. I rode that ER a
fair bit round the south of France and Monaco, it was bent and battered
to ****.

--
Lozzo
Triumph Daytona 955i SE (Niged-out)
Suzuki SV650 K3 (For sale - email for details)
Honda CBR600 F-W trackbike
Yamaha SR250 SpazzTrakka
Suzuki GSX-R750L
Suzkui TS50X x2

 

That might prove a little difficult.

They're excellent, but one cause of your low BG could be "reactive
hypoglycaemia" which can be exacerbated by eating sugary foods. The higher
the sugar content and the quicker it gets into your system, the easier it is
to go hypo, so a little slower activating carbohydrate is usually better
than "Hypostop"/Glucose tabs (from the chemist) or boiled sweets.

Picnic bars are a good example of a hypo stop + hypo avoid as the nuts take
a long time to break down while the rest of the Picnic is pretty quick.

Btw, the doctor is NOT allowed to inform ANYONE about your problem, least of
all the DVLA. That's purely down to you.



--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19