Recent Content by Stretford Ender

Extreme flu in February 2020 with covid symptoms but no testing available. Looking back - weight loss started in the summer of 2020. Put it down to work related stress diagnosed with covid in November 2020. walked into my gp after encouragement from my mum regarding weight loss. Blood test...

Hi All Diagnosed back in Jan and with the pandemic, I tend to speak with NHS staff via telephone calls as opposed to in person which can sometimes be difficult. Some NHS staff can be very helpful. Others seem to be very painful. So my local GP diabetic nurse phoned me Wednesday for my first...

Had mine done yesterday. It’s like being back in my old school corridor when someone punches you in the arm (went to an all boys school....) bit fatigued to I guess but nothing major. currently in the honeymoon period as a newly diagnosed and it has sent my blood sugars down so far if anything.

Newly diagnosed in January 21 and finding the posts in this thread inspirational

Thanks for the heads up. I must admit each NHS staff member seems to give slightly different advice about food so think a dietician is the way forward. The best advice I have received so far was the head nurse on the trial screening I attended. She was type 1 as well so always helps speaking to...

Hey! I can safely say me and my family have no close friends or family with any form of diabetes so we are all pretty clueless! I don’t feel a great level of support from the team at my local hospital in all honesty. I think COVID may have an influence on that at the moment. My GP’s diabetic...

Thank you. Trying to gain as much knowledge as possible to help me along the way. Yes I have noticed that throughout the forums. Ironically I have just been screened for a immunotherapy clinical trial but am awaiting my blood results to see if I have a gene known as HLA-DS4 to be eligible to...

Hey All Been lurking through the forum the few weeks following my type 1 diagnosis on the 09th January 2021 so thought I would get involved! 32 year old male. So story goes, started losing some weight in summer 2020 followed by some random abdominal pains. Visited GP who said far to young for...