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it’s important to me now, is to get people to become aware of this risk. The first person to be treated with insulin in 1922 was only 14 years old and he lasted another 13 years. He did not live long enough to be at risk of vascular dementia. When we got married, my wife was on bovine insulin...

Thank you everyone for your thoughts. What is important to me now is to raise awareness (gawd I hate that phrase) of the link between chronic diabetes and elevated risk of Vascular Dementia. Like I said, we thought we had a clean bill of health because the doctors only talked about neuropathy...

The danger is that by the time you recognise the symptoms for what they really are, it’s way too late.

Don't know whether to put this in general discussion or type one forum, however... We thought we had dodged it all. After 55 years of type one diabetes, we had no indications of any diabetic complications. No loss of sensation in fingers and toes. No indications of renal problems. Only a tiny...

Many thanks to all for your sympathy. But nice as it is, that is not what I am after. I am trying to raise awareness (My gawd I have actually used that awful phrase) All of you who have type 1 are at risk of a disease that is being ignored by the system because no one talks about it. When you...

Thank you. I can not change what has happened. What I want is to save someone from suffering what I am going through.

A salutary warning to all type ones. My wife was diagnosed age one with diabetes in 1964. So she has had it for near on six decades. She is probably one of the longest diagnosed diabetics around. For the past forty years since we met and fell in love we have been aware of the dangers of...

Hello from a new member of the community. As happens I am not diabetic (I am a manic depressive but thats a different matter) .. However my wife is type 1 having been diagnosed at age one. She is now approaching her 60th. Sadly for reasons I will explain elsewhere she can’t take part in the forum. .

Does this mean the Turing test has been passed?