Your Stories

Meet our November Volunteer Spotlight, Dr Carol Homden CBE

Meera was told she was at risk of developing type 2 diabetes in 2020, after her GP carried out some routine blood tests.

Diagnosed in her teens with type 2 diabetes, Shannon spent many years feeling overwhelmed by her condition but signing up

Sophie's diagnosis of type 1 diabetes, after falling seriously ill with DKA, at age 13 came as a total shock to her mum, Clare.

David Childs, ReTUNE participant and now in remission of type 2 diabetes, shares his journey.

Meet our Volunteer Spotlight for October 2022, Amina Chothia Amina lives in Batley in West Yorkshire.

Dawn, 52, is a midwife, and married with four grown-up boys. She was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 22. And started having menopausal symptoms in her early 40s.

Khadija was born five weeks early (hence the name Khadija, which means early baby girl).

Imogen was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when she was 12 years old.

After developing pancreatitis in 2013, Milesh was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes three years later.