Followed the link from Diabetes UK to their associated travel insurance for a quote.A bit concerned to be asked if I had "Sugar Diabetes".From then on it was called Sugar Diabetes.Not asked whether I was type 1 or 2.Does not inspire confidence in the company or Diabetes UK for using a company that uses the term "Sugar Diabetes".
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Travel Insurance
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Robin
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'Our' Diabetes (whether type 1 or 2) is Diabetes Mellitus, which roughly translates as 'sugar diabetes' Last time I used Diabetes Uk travel insurance, they called it 'Diabetes Mellitus'. Maybe they've decided their customers don't do Latin any more.
JMyrtle
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Try contacting your home policy provider for travel insurance.
It's surprising how much you can save by not covering things twice.
We pay £60.00 for an annual policy with the only exclusion being cancer for me even though I have been clear for five years.
Both of us have slightly raised blood pressure controlled by medication, my husband has had a hip replacement and they said that my blood glucose (51 Hab1c at that point) wasn't high enough to be a health risk.
It's surprising how much you can save by not covering things twice.
We pay £60.00 for an annual policy with the only exclusion being cancer for me even though I have been clear for five years.
Both of us have slightly raised blood pressure controlled by medication, my husband has had a hip replacement and they said that my blood glucose (51 Hab1c at that point) wasn't high enough to be a health risk.
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