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Hi all, As a teenager I was an extremely badly controlled diabetic, but I am now a reformed character and happy on the pump. I have had a bit of a struggle with retinopathy but that's all settled down now. In the past year we've moved to a farm and I do a lot more lifting/work with my hands...

Hi all, I'm a bit of a lurker but just wondering if anyone has any experience of this. I really struggled to keep my sugars under control as a teenager/early 20s, I lead an extremely active lifestyle and the regime just wasn't working for me. I was assigned a consultant whose interests were...

Hello all, Just looking for a bit of support and experience if anyone can provide it :) I was an awful type 1, HbA in the teens for all of my teenage years, then in Sept 2012 aged 21 I went onto the pump, HbA drops to 8 and retinopathy began. In Dec 2013 I was diagnosed with bilateral...

Hi sorry I don't post often... but I am a "bad" diabetic so mostly need the help and guidance rather than pass it out and be hypocritical! I am 18 years old and since the age of 15 my HBA1Cs (or whatever they're called :? ) have ranged between 11-17... they've not gone up gradually but sort of...

:( I'm an 17 year old who has been diabetic since I was 9... I really can't control my diabetes to save my life... I never miss a lantus injection but find it really difficult to remember to inject my novorapid and to test, and then it spirals and I get really scared of testing :( I havea...