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My company needed extra cash for a new building and decided to make redundancies in order to save money--I was one of those made redundant. Fellow teachers told me I should visit the doctor in order to be signed off with stress for the rest of the academic year. I didn't but later understood...

No longer any regulation.......

I was never asked back there....

Frankly I found work easier without "protective" legislation for disabled workers......personal view, you understand....

I now do supply teaching which has been seriously affected by education cuts. Recently I was sent to a school & informed, only when I arrived there, that I would have to do lunch duty as well. Lunch was 30 minutes & I was expected to be in the dining room at the correct time (no time for loo to...

I was once asked by a manager what I had in my (rather large bag) I replied using 1 word "food".

You've got it in one---was recently having a very similar conversation to that in your post

Thank you Jo_the boat...!!!! Only comment I had from DSN last week was that I had put on a kilo since March (you should have seen the size of her).......nice to get a positive comment.......

This is nothing to do with insulin adjustment, eating, exercise or any of the normal stuff: Have been taking SELENIUM for a week (activated type from Holland & Barratt) & during that time I have been taking less & less insulin, have been in 4 s consistently, have lost weight (was going to chuck...

When I When I saw a dietician, for the first time in 50 years, she didn't even know how much cho was in a slice of bread---so basic it is untrue....!!! I had already told her that I took sandwiches to work--ones that I made myself then she said that it must be so difficult to work out how much...

I was also put on blood pressure tabs & statins quite a few years ago. Less than a week on statins & I felt weak & depressed so discontinued their use (have a cousin, 7 years younger than me, non diabetic who had had a 2nd heart attack so was put on statins--same thing happened to him & he said...

My GP told me that I had a hypo because I ate something sweet so my body produced too much insulin which caused the resultant low blood sugar ........I sat there with my mouth open....... (Type 1 since 1961---she must have thought I was type 2, perhaps....)? If that was the case my GP would have...

It c/b an idea to see your GP in case you are developing another auto immune condition or that you are experiencing forgetfulness due to stress. I have had type 1 for 56 years now and got a little "lax"with control when I developed an under active thyroid after the birth of my 2nd child...

1 doctor (at hospital) started shouting at me and said I probably thought I knew everything about diabetes (I hadn't even opened my mouth) but that he knew all about diabetes clinically. I assumed he was competitive........? I have just developed resilience.....

Now I have also developed hypothyroidism (another autoimmune condition) as well as type 1, doctors insist on labelling me as having metabolic syndrome. I reply by telling them that both conditions developed as my body's autoimmune reactions to both the cells that produce insulin and...

Yes I am always treated as a type 2 now in spite of having had type 1 for 56 years as stated in my medical records. Medics give me very inappropriate diabetes advice (relating to type 2) and the more I insist I am type 1 the more they just smile & carry on talking........

Indeed...I have had diabetes for 56 years and am now finding that I have 1 sided conversations with gps which relate to type 2 diabetes. They obviously think I am mistaken when I say I was diagnosed as type 1 in 1961...........!!!!!

Consultant recently told me off for injecting through clothes but, frankly, if you are out & have a dress on you have no choice (it's either that or lift the dress up, which at my age is worse than having an injection in public)!!! Asked doctor re medi swabs but she refused to prescribe them...

You have to laugh at this: my son's partner developed type 1 & when we went out for meals (they often ate out) there were 2 of us injecting at the same table--synchronised jabbing......!!!!!

Awful for you but remember that people live in their own little bubbles so if this girl had never encountered diabetes before, so didn't know anything about it or anyone with the condition, she would only relate to the knowledge she did have eg people who take drugs inject & that is wrong. If...