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ea0045s4.1 | Symposia 4 Living life with Diabetes | BSPED2016

Diabetes and an eating disorder - my experience

Watkins Poppy

I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when I was 10 years old. Then in 2014, when I was around 15 years old, I begin developing an eating disorder which was diagnosed as a combination of both anorexia and bulimia tendencies. After struggling with the condition, as it got increasingly worse, by myself for around 4 months I was referred to CAMHS. Having an eating disorder made my HBA1C very unsteady and rather high (but never above 9%/ 75 mmol/mol), which in turn made me suffer w...