Your Stories

Balance cover star, Shivali, was diagnosed with ty

Sarah runs a local diabetes group in Newport. She wanted to offer other members extra support when they had pressing questions outside of their meetings.

After losing hypo awareness, Neil started self-funding

Jack has neonatal diabetes, a rare genetic type of diabetes

After being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 13, Mel took up athletics to take control of her diabetes, and hasn’t looked back.

Nicky was very worried about her son Oli going back to school following his diagnosis with type 1 diabetes.

Susie has five children, with both her daughters living with type 1 diabetes.

Katy is a diabetes nurse. She wanted to see improvements in care in the young adults diabetes service in derby.