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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
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- Insulin
Hi all I'm fairly new to all of this having being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in January......i appear to be getting conflicting info from the so-called specialists and am becoming increasingly fed up with the whole thing......I went for my 2nd review yesterday with my diabetes consultant he has informed me that I definitely have type 1 diabetes and is hereditary...i had an alcohol addiction of which I have been sober for almost a year....i gave everything up as I have always been led to believe that the alcohol was the major contributing factor for me developing diabetes...i am now being told something completely different and have asked my parents and there are no know sufferers' of diabetes in either side of my family....i am so confused and don't know who or what to believe anymore...i have been punishing myself for the last year thinking I had caused this when it transpires that I may well have had this unknowingly for years.....any advice would be gratefully received