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Diagnosed in 2023 with symptoms starting in 2022 after having 3 COVID jabs. My DSN did tell me that contracting covid could potentially act as a trigger for T1D. Interesting point but I believe I've always had the potential to be diabetic and something triggered it, not appearing out of nowhere...

Thanks guys really useful advice. Much appreciated.

Hi all, I'm due to fly out on my first proper holiday since diagnosis next month, jetting off to Cape Verde with the girlfriend. I'm mostly prepared with all supplies neccessary but I do have a few questions which I'm hoping I can get some advice/past experience on. Firstly, on holiday I love...

Welcome to the forums mate, I'm now into my sixth month since diagnosis so all your comments are still very familiar to me. One thing I will say about the weight gain from my experience, I am naturally not very heavy at all, probs 10-11 stone at my heaviest however on the day of diagnosis I was...

I find it incredibly useful, diagnosed just under 6 months ago and I find it gives me exactly what I want which is a visible reading any time of the day. Once you can get past the craving of over-checking and being obsessed (I was checking mine 100-200 times a day for the first couple of months)...

Got my first hba1c result back since original diagnosis in October 2023. A pretty good improvement from 107 (11.9%) to 51 (6.7%). Glad to know I'm heading in the right direction.

Hi everyone, My first post on the forum, I've been quietly reading through a lot of the content on here over the past 4 weeks and thought I should contribute with a post of my own :) A bit of background, I am a 22 yo male and was diagnosed around 4 weeks ago. Symptoms looking back now were so...