Recent Content by Karen S

Type 1 aged 33 told was probably due to illness or stress

Looking at this site there seems to be alot of people who get it at a later age and like most of them I was told that it will have been due to illness or stress. I now think its even stranger how 2 of my doctors could have missed it.

What was more frightning to me was how it was overlooked because of no family history of it and my age. Luckly I didnt take the first two doctors diagnoses of it just being an infection and went to see a third doctor or things could have been very different. I am also lucky that we have several...

Hi My name is Karen as was diagnosed as being type 1 diabetic last year at the age of 33 apparentley it is fairly rare to become type 1 Diabetic at my age (was not diabetic before diagnosis) and because of this 2 different doctors missed it and I ended up in Hospital with Key Tones over 5...