This is Adrian's story of living with Type 1 Diabetes.
Here he discusses the complications that have been relevant to him throughout his time of having diabetes.
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I don't. It sounds smug to say so. And again, my hands are on a wooden desk so I'm fine. No, I have survived it pretty well, and my HbA1c has measured twice yearly, has always been, for want of a better word, praised. Interestingly, it was creeping up a bit as it almost inevitably does post diagnosis in the year or so before I got Libre. And when I, the figures in which you can now access online on your own NHS record. It's absolutely startling to see it. And you can just see the number creepy up not to anything dangerous, but just creeping up into a less than ideal zone. And that was probably just, you know, just time passing, being very busy. maybe just growing a bit older, don't know, a bit less active. But as soon as I got Libre, there's a really noticeable fall, which just coincides with the weeks and the months after I started using that, because you start getting that detailed information about what it's doing. But yeah, I'm not aware. Sadly, the pandemic means that checks aren't quite what they should be over the last 18 months. So I actually haven't had an in-person diabetes appointment for getting on for two years. But I'm not aware of any negative developments.
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