Diabetes - patient stories

People with diabetes have their own stories to tell. These stories help us to see the experience of having diabetes from different perspectives. 

These resources were last accessed on 1 November 2012.
 
anniecoops: the thoughts of a nurse with type 1 diabetes
The writer of this blog is a nurse who started her training in 1983. She had been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 1979 and says "Am I just a nurse? Or a person with a long term condition who happens to be a nurse? ... Sometimes I will be reflecting as a patient, sometimes as a nurse, and perhaps sometimes both."
 
Diabetes Stories: personal tales of diabetes through the decades
This website, based at the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism (OCDEM), presents 100 audio interviews with people with diabetes, members of their families and healthcare professionals. The stories "are offered as a resource for historians, healthcare professionals, people with diabetes and their families, and all those interested in the ways people remember and make sense of their lives". They also provide a unique oral history covering experiences of diabetes and changes in treatment from the late 1920s until the first decade of the 21st century.

Diabetes UK: Your stories
Diabetes UK website: "Diabetes stories of people from all walks of life, who were happy to share their experiences".

Diabetes UK: People like me
Diabetes UK website: Stories from young people. There is also a separate area for stories from children.

Patient Voices
This website presents Pilgrim Projects collection of digital patient stories and describes how the project developed and widened. The stories are from patients, carers and healthcare practitioners. The site has been set up so that you can search by topic using your browser's find facility to find relevant stories.

Youthhealthtalk.org: diabetes type 1
The Youthhealthtalk website is about young people's real life experiences of health and lifestyle. This section includes interviews with 39 young people about their experiences of type 1 diabetes.

Discussion forums

Diabetes Support Forum UK
This site, which is non-commercial and not affiliated to any organisation, encourages UK diabetics to share and discuss experiences.