Paul was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes when he was 27 years old. After living with diabetes for over twenty years, he's experienced several diabetes complications. He now tells his story to encourage ...

The great thing about being a trustee is that you can see you’re making a difference and you can contribute to that difference. You have to put the work in, and you don’t get paid of course, but in ..

Freya Haydon resists looking at photographs of herself when she was nine. That was when she was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and, as she says: “I had no idea what was going on at the time. Looking b ...

Diagnosis I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in March 2012, age 11. It was during my last year of primary school, as I was getting ready to transition to secondary school. My parents noticed tha ...

Dawn, 52, is a midwife, and married with four grown-up boys. She was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 22. And started having menopausal symptoms in her early 40s. Khadija was born five ...

Emma was diagnosed with with type 1 diabetes in 1998 when she was 6 years old, right after her family moved from Finland to the USA. She started off with insulin injections but received an insuli ...

Skids is one of our amazing fundraisers who is going to be walking 10 miles in one day as part of My Wellness Walk. Diagnosed with type 2 diabetes aged 46, here he tells us more about how he cope ...

Musician Cara, who has had type 1 diabetes since 2007, had to cancel her performances and put her life on hold during the pandemic. Here, she talks about dealing with her fears around coronavirus and ...

Spencer decided to become a volunteer after he was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, and found the information provided by us very helpful.  An unexpected diagnosis Spencer was diagnosed with ...

Diagnosed at 26 with type 2 diabetes and misdiagnosed almost a year later with type 1, it took another two years for Hannah’s type 2 diagnosis to be confirmed. Now 29, Hannah wants to make others awar ...