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Long term health conditions >> Women 16-18 >> Lucy - Interview 05 >> The only - and best - way to have sweets is after a meal, as a 'treat'. At one point she was eating too many sugary things and having lots of diabetic

Lucy has had type 1 diabetes for 11 years. Two years ago her mother was also diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. There was a period when her diabetes control overall wasn't very good. Lucy has been working with her consultant at improving her overall control by setting an action plan, like for instance 'losing weight'. She is feeling much better now.

Long term health conditions >> Women 16-18 >> Lucy - Interview 05 >> She was forgetting do to her lunchtime injection at school because she was too busy and at home because she was having dinner at different times.

Long term health conditions >> Women 16-18 >> Lucy - Interview 05 >> Says that she usually saw a different consultant every time she went to the diabetes clinic. She would have liked more regular appointments.

Long term health conditions >> Men 16-18 >> Andrew - Interview 24 >> He went through a 'bad phase' of forgetting his insulin injections and says it was because he found his previous regimen very restrictive.

Andrew has type 1 diabetes and Coeliac Disease. He was diagnosed first with type 1 diabetes when he was 11 years old and was diagnosed with Coeliac 3 years later. He changed his insulin regimen and he finds that the short-acting and long-acting insulin regimen gives him more freedom to choose when and what to eat. He needs to have a gluten-free diet because of his Coeliac which means that he cannot eat wheat, oats, barley and rye. Says that his mother makes very good gluten-free cakes!

Publication date: October 2007 Last updated: February 2012

Review date: February 2014

Various long-term health conditions can occur in young people. We interviewed 30 young people about their experiences of different chronic illnesses. Select from the key topics below, choose from the full list of topics on the right hand side of this page, or explore all the interviews by clicking on people's stories below.

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