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Understanding the importance of diabetes health checks to help prevent diabetes complications. 

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Amy’s story: ELSA and teplizumab offered my daughter hope to delay her type 1 diabetes

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Oliver and Type 1 diabetes

Oliver and his mum Sue would like to share the video they made about Oliver's diabetes.

Type 1 diabetes doesn’t make a person - it’s just something that happens to come with them

Lois told her boyfriend Nick all about her Type 1 diabetes from the start, meaning he knew just what to do when she had a huge hypo a few dates in.

'I've done sponsored walks dressed in a two piece bikini and had my chest waxed.'

Time for a second life

When Heather was diagnosed with diabetes at the age of 54, she resolved to see more of the world – and 'get on with things'. 

“Things have mostly got better…”

Chris Magee looks back on 30 years of Type 1 diabetes and considers how things have changed.“This year, 2016, marks 30 years since I became a Type 1 diabetic.

The most important learning is hope

“Type One? Really? But isn’t that what you’re born with?” is the response I get when I tell people I was diagnosed with the condition, aged 38 years old.

The unexpected ending and the overwhelming beginning...

Blogger Natalie Welshwas diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in May this year.

The DAFNE course absolutely blew me away

"I was diagnosed with Type 1 in August 2002 at the age of 16, after visiting my GP complaining of being tired weight loss all the usual (at the t

'The memory of crossing the line with tears down my eyes will stay with me forever!'

"I've been diabetic for 15 years and finally got a pump a year before the 2011 London Marathon.

Since DAFNE my diabetes is much better controlled

Rose – who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 1953 – thanks DAFNE for better control of her Type 1 diabetes. My story begins in October 1953 when I first taken ill and diagnosed with a
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