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I've been type 1 for > 41 years and have a number of other autoimmune diagnoses including Addison's disease, which also affects one's blood sugar. I was approved for NHS funding because I have no nocturnal hypo awareness and I was widowed in May 2018. I started using the Medtronic 640g pump...

New member but far from new to diabetes. I was diagnosed in 1978 with gestational diabetes, It ended up sticking around. My mother was type 1 (she died at age 36 of complications of diabetes), I was diagnosed next. Then one of my two siblings, a brother, was diagnosed with type 1 (he died at...

Hey, all. I found this page to be interesting! I was diagnosed in 1978. I lived in the US for 15 years, returning to the UK in 2014. Took me a while to get my head around the numbers used in the US for blood glucose, I wish I'd found this thread years ago!