Youtube Series on Type 1 Diabetes - Help needed!

[Blessing Marie]

Hello!

I'm a 16 year old Type 1 Diabetic who is currently working on a youtube series on Type 1 diabetes. I've been planning this for over 10 months now and i've begun to work on individual videos.

My audience for this particular series are young diabetics, newly-diagnosed diabetics and people who don't have diabetics but perhaps want to become more educated on the topic or have family or friends who do.

While I have a few ideas of things I want to include, I was wondering if anyone had any ideas of things I could touch upon and/or things that you would've wanted to know when you were first diagnosed etc.

I also plan on doing a Q&A as part of the series and i'd be most grateful if people could leave questions below with regards to Type 1 Diabetes that you think would be important for me to touch upon.

Thanks in advance,

Blessing

 

[grovesy]

Welcome.

 

[Martin Canty]

Best of luck on this project, I admire you for getting out there & trying to educate people about D.....

My suggestion is about Diet, very important for D's & Non-D's alike to improve the quality of what they eat. The quality of our diets, over the last 30-40 years, has declined to the point where it appears that junk food is an every day part of many peoples diet.

 

[Matt Cycle]

Hi Blessing

Good luck with this. Things I would have wanted to know about my T1 when diagnosed were sports and exercise; relationships (the best way to explain it to a new partner without frightening them off ); university/careers (telling employers etc); alcohol (used to have the occasional pint in my younger days ). I got some of this info from the DSN etc but to get it from someone of a similar age actually living with it would have been great. I suspect things may have changed since I was diagnosed in what people are told but a lot of what I was told was what I couldn't or shouldn't do rather than what I could do and what was possible - which is most things as it turned out.