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Hello everyone, in September I would like to start getting the driving license, I did not do it before for fear of the descent of Ázucar, but now that I have bomb I feel safer.I know that I must measure my blood glucose levels before driving, but I have a small doubt, I no longer take cookies with Ázucar, I take the new Gullón, and the truth is that I do not upload my glucose much, to drive, should I do it?.Thank you

In the beginning there is no problem in which a diabetic takes the driving license, as longSometimes we have no symptoms of descent, so at least to prevent, you must do it. And then for example, I always carry in the car caramelos with sugar, so it can happen.

I would face it as if you were exercising ...
You measure before taking the car and acts accordingly (you eat fast, slow or 2 depending on)
The answer will always give the glucometer, at the beginning I would eat 1 ration of HC (2 cookies for example) and see how it works ...

This is a my theory, not confirmed or read anywhere , so I put it to see what you think: D
It is estimated that for every minute of driving, 0.040 calories are burned: Link ... A = 100803#3
4 Calories is equivalent to 1 gram of carbohydrate ....... so every hour driving would theory theoretically 0.6 grams of carbohydrates.
I edit to myself, to add that I have forgotten to multiply by the body weight of each person ... and I do not say it except in the presence of my endocrine :))
That is, following my hypothetical theory a 70 kilos person would consume 42 grams of HC, use 4 portions.

After the subject comes and driving.
As you know the stress rises glycemia and this is not very predictable ...:-/

On the other hand, to renew the driving license they ask for a medical, favorable report of the endocrine ... I imagine that to take it out for the first time too.
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Oysters .... well .... I had not thought about looking at me before making a long journey ... as a little sugar being is little ...
The longest trip I made was 1.30h of a pull.The only thing I had in mind was not to drive at meals at the time to avoid descent and for the moment I have not had any scare.
By the way, the T the Table of Caloric expenditure.
I encourage the card and without fears.

Thank you very much for answering, but Oswas I understood that renewing the card every year went down in history and now it is done every 3 years, it is seen that they informed me badly.Thanks again.: D

Hello,

Owash, zero that you have done the calculation of portions badFor that rule, before going to sleep you would have to eat 0.015 * 8h * 60min * 70kg = 504kcal = & GT;504/4/10 = 12 portions not to have hypoglycemia at night, and it is clear that this is not true ... there are the fats that are 9 calories per 1g ...

Perhaps the calculation of the extra contribution that would have to be contributed would be (0.040 calories/driving - 0.018 calories/be relaxed) * 70kg * 60min = 75.6 extra calories per hour driving.Assuming that all calories take them out of carbohydrates (which is not true) would be 1.89 portions of hydrates.But they still seem a lot ... few people are relaxed all the time

When I drive my sugar and if this is more than 100, I don't drink anything (if you have the basal and the Bolus well regulated and you are no longer taking effect), if I am unless I take a ration of hydrates ...I have done many km. driving and what I do is stop every two hours (which is what everyone should do) and I take advantage and I do an analysis

Yes, ethics, I already said that this is a very particular theory of mine ...
I think that at the beginning of the times of diabetological education, it was taught to adapt insulin based on calories and not based on carbohydrates ...: Shock:
It is clear that my theory is disassembled in mind you make a couple of numbers.

Each is a world and how their body reacts to certain circumstances is something that many times cannot be expected, except with the glucometer.

Paula, but badly I remember the renewal of the card is for 4 years with a favorable medical report.

Yes, renewal is now every 4 years.

I, without making numbers .......... I spend a lot by driving .......... hehehehe

Every two hours I stop, and I measure me, and I almost always accompanied with something, cookies, fruit, etc ...

In my first summer with vacation since the debut I have made about 4000 kms and without any problem.

Greetings.

As everyone has said, it is best to control before embarking on the trip.
In December I signed up for the car, but until May I did not start to go to class ... how I moved and so ... I returned to Barcelona to climb the theoretician, when I was doing the medical certificate to the doctor who was looking at meI told him that I am a diabetic, but the doctor did not tell me anything ... and in auto -school either ... to see in the fuestura's here if they tell me something ...

Hello!!My advice is that you pay attention to all the advice they have given you and everything they have told you to do.Another advice I cannot give you since precisely during this month of August I have had several scares with my hypos and the car, so I am not the best example to follow ...

All the best

I believe that if you are more or less controlled, it is not necessarymore nervous so the situation changes.

Hello, forgive everyone for answering late, thank you for sharing your experiences with me, I will surely get nervous, supernervious, I will already tell you.Kisses

Paula, I am a rookie with this card too (well, soon I take off the l, but it is not that the car has taken a lot precisely) and although everything is already said, I repeat it: nothing has never happened to me.Obviously, I measure the sugar and if I am below 100 I take a reinforcement (half a ration, one ...) and I always have juice with me in the car.The truth is that I am not afraid of him: for me to measure sugar before driving is not a security measure for "what can happen to me", but rather a responsibility that I am aware that I have with others also (that in theWe are not going alone ...)

But what has been said: do not get nervous (that does not help) and take the car without fear but with spare parts in the glove compartment.