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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rokaab" data-source="post: 1673945" data-attributes="member: 450212">Gotta agree with that.As an example: many years back, I had just started a new job, so was really quite stressed, I neglected to tell anyone I was diabetic - and boy was that a dumb move! and I didn't have anything like a SOS badge or anything on my wrist at the time.In the first week I managed to have a hypo at work (probably due to stress - I'm very much an introvert so all these new people wasn't helping), now since I hadn't told anyone they didn't know what to do, they obviously took me down to a sick/side room to try and deal with me - they ended up having to call my mum (that's really really embarassing when you're about 27! - a lot more so that just the hypo) to see if they could find out anything, they did manage to feed me something and I did come round and was perfectly fine after 30 mins. And of course this worried my mum something rotten as well.So yeah, letting people know is really very important - an SOS badge or wrist thing is really very useful - and no its not shouting out to the world you have diabetes.</blockquote>

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