Garble garble

[Robin]

This just popped up on my ipad news. I don’t know where to start...(Ungluing my palm from my face would be a good place). Assume grave expression ..‘I’ve got an extremely serious diabetes diagnosis to deal with here, Sarge'

 

[Bloden]

‘I’ve got an extremely serious diabetes diagnosis to deal with here, Sarge'

Hahahaha...the mind boggles.

 

[rayray119]

Hmm didn't realize there were levels of diabetes diagnosis haha

 

[Benny G]

It does correctly state the DVLA need to be informed, because diabetes can cause issues while driving.

The rest is a bit garbled. But I didn't know that about Sleep Apnoea...

 

[Robin]

It does correctly state the DVLA need to be informed, because diabetes can cause issues while driving.

The rest is a bit garbled. But I didn't know that about Sleep Apnoea...

It’s not correct, because it makes no distinction between insulin users, (and maybe some but not all people on some other hypo-inducing meds), who do need to contact the DVLA, and people on something like metformin only, or diet controlled who don’t need to contact the DVLA.
I drew attention to it because it’s just another example of sloppy journalism where Diabetes is concerned.

Edited to add. The bit about sleep apnoea crept on to the page, I didn’t particularly want to comment on that, but since you raised it, I checked, and that’s wrong too. You only need inform DVLA if your apnoea clinic feels it’s causing excessive tiredness,

 

[Benny G]

That's good to know, I didn't know that about sleep apnoea.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

I knew someone who used to keep a little scrapbook of these diabetes gems. I’d imagine it must run to several volumes by now! 🙄