I find this whole process silly. When I lived in Utah, my doctor had to fill out a form every year saying that I was fit to drive. This was usually based on my A1c alone…
Sending it in every year was annoying. I forgot one year, and I received a letter from the DMV that they were going to revoke my license. I called them, and they said they would be willing to postpone the revocation as long as I sent them the form within a certain so many days. I sent the form as requested, but the whole process seemed like more of an annoyance than any sort of valuable check.
In Virginia, I didn’t have to send anything to the DMV at all. If someone reports you for driving unsafely, then the DMV there can revoke your license, but that’s the only way you lose your license due to diabetes.
I now need to switch my license to DC, and I’ve read that they have the stupid yearly requirement here. I’ve put off switching over my license, but I’m not sure if my Virginia license is technically valid anymore since I haven’t lived there in awhile.
The whole process is silly. I don’t feel like they’re really capable of verifying anything unless you’re being admitted to the hospital due to very low blood sugar levels. Even then, there’d be an incentive to not share those incidences with your doctor in case they revoke your license. What’s the point?