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Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Anyone watching Mel Stephenson running along the racetrack would have no idea that she’s suffered from type 1 diabetes since she was just 14 years old.
The 26-year-old, from Gabalfa in Cardiff, looks a picture of health and has never let the condition stop her indulging in her love of exercise.
She was first diagnosed in 2001, when she was 13, and had spent months feeling incredibly thirsty and tired – so much so that at night she would hold her head under a tap.
“I’ve never known a thirst like it. Nothing I drank would quench it and I remember getting up seven or eight times a night to have a drink. It was like being in a desert and I would drink anything.
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/mel-stephenson-being-diagnosed-diabetes-7204104
The 26-year-old, from Gabalfa in Cardiff, looks a picture of health and has never let the condition stop her indulging in her love of exercise.
She was first diagnosed in 2001, when she was 13, and had spent months feeling incredibly thirsty and tired – so much so that at night she would hold her head under a tap.
“I’ve never known a thirst like it. Nothing I drank would quench it and I remember getting up seven or eight times a night to have a drink. It was like being in a desert and I would drink anything.
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/mel-stephenson-being-diagnosed-diabetes-7204104