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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fraddycat" data-source="post: 316635" data-attributes="member: 46145">Hi Louise, I think honesty is the best policy, I found that my diagnosis has made no difference to my insurance for both travel and car.  The travel insurance wanted to know about my meds but didn't make any change to the premium and gave me a covering letter.  If you are diagnosed and put on meds you can get a medical exemption certificate so your meds and eye tests are free, the medical profession, opticians and dentists take good care of you knowing you are diabetic, and like Borofergie says, maybe it will help you to accept the inevitable.I personally choose to ignore their dietary advice etc but I will be glad to have everyone on hand if I ever got retinopathy or any of the other scary 'opathies.If I was you I would resolve my dilemma and make that appointment - good luck!</blockquote>

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