full list of topics

Discovery :

• Symptoms of Type 1 diabetes
• Staying in hospital
• Information about diabetes

The diabetes care team :

• What happens at the diabetes clinic?
• What makes a good consultation with the care team
• Children, transition and young adult clinics

Diabetes control :

• Insulin: doing injections everyday
• Finding the right insulin regimen for you
• Doing blood glucose tests - 'the finger pricking'
• Insulin pumps
• Hypos (hypoglycaemia)
• Highs (hyperglycaemia)
• Everyday factors that affect diabetes control
• Managing diabetes as a teenager
• Diet and diabetes
• Obesity and other eating problems

Relationships and lifestyles :

• Friends and relationships
• What about periods, contraception and diabetes?
• Drinking and Alcohol
• Travelling abroad

Living with it :

• Support from parents and families
• School
• University and work
• Messages to other young people with diabetes
• Messages to doctors and nurses