‘I wish I’d spoken to my doctor sooner’

“Looking back, I’d been feeling sick for a couple of years before I discovered I had diabetes at the beginning of the year. My normal state was feeling tired and lethargic and like I was never 100 per cent. As time went on, I also started to feel foggy in the head, was urinating a lot and was always thirsty.

At the time those symptoms didn’t mean much to me and I lived with them rather than