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Hi everyone, I got diagnosed with T1 a couple of weeks ago after being admitted to the hospital and having ketoacidosis with my blood sugar levels at 28.4 and ketone at 6.4. I feel physically good now but mentally I am struggling. I am scared to eat as my numbers have been quite high. It has...

Hello! I am brand new to this forum and Diabetes but feeling quite “at sea”! This is long sorry! I am not new to Diabetes UK having raised £1500+ for them in the last year through fitness challenges (how ironic)! Recently (early July) hospitalised and operated on for bad infection. Bloods...

I have had a few possible symptoms. I’ve dodged getting tested (stupid I know) because I’m scared. Not so much of the condition itself although I know it has to be taken very seriously but more how my gp and similar will react. I’m on medication for other conditions that can be not good for...

Hi! I like to be called Marcel. I am 17, and have lived with T1D for about 9 years. I struggle a lot with mental illnesses and other physical illness issues. That makes staying on top of my diabetes even more difficult. I feel like such a failure when I have highs or lows, because I’ve had it...

Hi, Jade, 34 and due to nasty DN i refused to go, and couldn’t take metformin due to other illness being exasperated.. DN said in front on daughter “you’ve now given your children the killer disease, you’ve essentially killed them” she also caused me to be urgently sent to GI a consultant by...

Hi, I’m new here - I’ve just got back from a diabetic clinic. I was diagnosed two years ago at 25 with type 2 diabetes. For a long time I’ve buried my head in the sand. Why me? Woe is me etc...etc. I feel ashamed. Ashamed that I haven’t done anything about it but ashamed that I’d let myself...

I am 14 years old, have not eaten well at breakfast for about 5/6 months now eating a lot of sugars but eating well at home. A few weeks ago at school my vision began to go blurry and after vision became fine I got a headache then felt sick. I am a fine weight and no where near over. Have I got...

Two days ago I was given the heads up I was a type 2 diabetic when i went to the doctors about a sinus infection and when I started to ask questions (especially since this blood test was done 7 months ago with nobody telling me in the meantime) I got told to make an appointment for a further...