Recent Content by Desse

You may by now have worked out what your body is doing. I was diagnosed 7 years ago, totally unexpected, no history in family or anything. at first they thought type 2 and put me on Metformin tables, they did not sit well with me. 3 months later I had pains in my legs and not well and turned...

999 stories you hear are either slightly negative or full of confusion and struggle. and then you catch the odd one.... Like the headline recently about some guy that was managing his life quite well thank you and had been a type 1 diabetic for 70 years ! Yes, that's right 70 years. If he...

Apparently I have only posted 2 questions since joining and I have only just discovered I have a message saying until I have 3 posts I should not post anymore comments as I will be marked as SPAM. Gee thanks ! has anyone else had a message like that ? I have no idea where it came from or when...

I'm not medically trained, so not comments from that angle. Just some advice. Don't panic. I became Type 1 (suddenly, no family history, no expectation or reason) in my mid 50's, am about 5 years on now. I found it really difficult at the start, everyone talks at you about what your numbers...

I had various allergy and auto immune issues most of my life, and I can recall around 35 years years ago discussing this with the doctor and getting blood checks for excessive white cells, around every 7 years there was some other strange body swerve reaction and so it went on most of my life...