Diabetes type 1 (young people)

Interview 1: I had got over my cold, but I stayed really thirsty, all holidays I noticed that I was really thirsty and that was getting worse and worse and needing the loo all the time and because it was quite gradual I didn't really notice a change. I just thought oh I'd never got over this cold. Although obviously it's not symptoms of a cold at all.

Interview 24: I didn't know a lot about it. Diabetes sounded like a scary word, you know, to something to be frightened of you, you didn't, I didn't know what it was. And to be honest, when you don't know what’s something else you do tend to worry about it.

Interview 30: Cut out a lot of sweets, I don't have to cut them out completely, you just have them in smaller portions. Just a little more healthy. And make sure that I regularly, like, have my breakfast, make sure I have my lunch and my dinner.

Interview 28: l do it, and I don't obviously stand up and make a scene, but I do it at the table in my arm. I refuse-, I refuse or I don't see why I have to go and visit every toilet in every restaurant I ever go to, especially when most of them are really nasty, so.

Interview 1: So that with being in Panama and then we’d crossed the border to Costa Rica. And we’d king of had an eight hour bus journey and had had a nightmare crossing the border. And we’d finally got to our destination and I went to do my injection and I was like, I’d left my insulin in the fridge in the hostel back in Panama. My sister wasn’t happy at all.