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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chris 88" data-source="post: 2764104" data-attributes="member: 598754">I was diagnosed with type one at the age of 30 in 1980. Despite all the usual signs (thirst, peeing, huge loss of weight, extreme tiredness), my GP missed it for months. When we got to it, he said he’d missed it because onset at my age was so unusual. Diagnosis in the end was by a friend in the pub. A very experienced consultant physician. Whose only clinical test was ‘are there white spots on your shoes?’!!45 years on I’m pretty fit and active. Though I’ve gone through spells of lots of hypos. Now I’ve accepted that I shouldn’t push too hard to keep my blood sugars tight. My results do run higher than the recommended but my clinical team tell me not to worry about that, at my age and with no complications. I took a lot of convincing about that. But I’m there now and with very few hypos.</blockquote>

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