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<blockquote data-quote="benfolger" data-source="post: 1419048" data-attributes="member: 389466"><p>I think Type 1 is not fully understood by the public, and this has been backed up by various misinterpreted story lines in various UK soaps over the last few years. I am constantly in battle with work colleagues who say 'my nan was diabetic.' 'Do you have to inject every day?? I couldn't do that!!' 'urhhh you're pricking your finger!!' 'should you be eating that?' The general knowledge on it is poor and it makes you feel so alone.</p><p></p><p>I have recently joined the forum and its amazing uplifting it makes you feel when you see and read someone describing how they feel and you can relate to it exactly. As supporting as friends and family are, they will never really know how it feels to hypo and want to eat the entire kitchen, and then how when suffering high BS and DKA, you feel like you're going to keel over and die.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="benfolger, post: 1419048, member: 389466"] I think Type 1 is not fully understood by the public, and this has been backed up by various misinterpreted story lines in various UK soaps over the last few years. I am constantly in battle with work colleagues who say 'my nan was diabetic.' 'Do you have to inject every day?? I couldn't do that!!' 'urhhh you're pricking your finger!!' 'should you be eating that?' The general knowledge on it is poor and it makes you feel so alone. I have recently joined the forum and its amazing uplifting it makes you feel when you see and read someone describing how they feel and you can relate to it exactly. As supporting as friends and family are, they will never really know how it feels to hypo and want to eat the entire kitchen, and then how when suffering high BS and DKA, you feel like you're going to keel over and die. [/QUOTE]
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