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No idea but I'm interested also. Before diagnosis I donated 3 times a year so I'm very disappointed I can't now

I'm still doing my part though! I've rounded up 4 friends who've never donated before and I'm taking them on Tuesday. That's more blood than I would have been able to donate myself all year :)
 
Hi, not sure but don't think its a problem for the receiver of our blood as type 2s can. Its more that our sugars are likely to drop like a stone if we gave blood. Even normal people need tea and biscuits to help the recovery process. Also as a type 1 our immune systems are already faulty and would be enormous stress on our bodies to replace the lost blood.

I did used to give blood many years ago, and would if we were allowed.
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Found this from google from someone who phoned to ask the question

I was told, when I rang up the blood donation people to ask why I couldn't donate, that it was because I had type 1 diabetes (nothing to do with being on insulin), and so there would be fewer platelets in the blood. So they would have to take more blood to get the same amount of platelets, then separate it out and recombine it to end up with whole blood with a normal number of platelets. I was told it wasnt to do with it being dangerous or harmful for me, or the resulting blood being dangerous for the recipient, just cost and time wise it wasn't worth it for them - it would cost about 3x more than blood from someone else.

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Thanks Brett! At least now we! Ill continue my campaign to get friends and family to go though, especially as there's a few rare blood types amongst them
 
Well done, just cause we can't there are other ways to help as you are proving , thumbup

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We can't give blood with type type 1 however we can be organ donors.
 
Interesting answer but raises a few questions. People on insulin can and do donate in the US. I think when I checked a few years ago that I could donate in France as a T1 but couldn't because I'd lived in the UK (mad cow disease!)
I also know when I had my last full blood count everything was well within normal range.
I thought that it was because of the risk to you ie the possibility of hypos. ( I understand that it would affect your HbA1c too!)
 
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