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After being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in early adolescence, Balance cover star and member Rob spent many years feeling completely overwhelmed by his condition. Becoming a father and discover...

When Ruby was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, she was shocked and overwhelmed. She was then offered the chance to take part in a clinical trial to test a new type of treatment called immunotherapy. Ru...

Balance cover star, Shivali, was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 2008 and has now put it into remission. Her family are a huge part of her story, from growing up in a family that loved food to the i...

Sarah runs a local diabetes group in Newport. She wanted to offer other members extra support when they had pressing questions outside of their meetings. That's when she discovered The Learning Zone, ...

After losing hypo awareness, Neil started self-funding Flash. He found that he managed his diabetes much better with the device. When he realised that his local CCG were refusing to fund it, Neil join...

Jack has neonatal diabetes, a rare genetic type of diabetes which can often be mistaken as type 1 diabetes. Diabetes UK-funded research helped to get Jack the right diagnosis and show that for some pe...

After being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 13, Mel took up athletics to take control of her diabetes, and hasn’t looked back. She has gone on to compete for Wales in the 100m and 200m. Now a Di...

Nicky was very worried about her son Oli going back to school following his diagnosis with type 1 diabetes. But she was so pleased with the care that Oli has received that she wanted to see the same l...

Susie has five children, with both her daughters living with type 1 diabetes. Susie volunteers as a patient advisor for an immunotherapy clinical trial, called USETKID. It’s testing if a drug can...