Please start by introducing yourself to the rest of our community. We would be grateful if you could tell us a little bit about yourself and your experiences with Diabetes. The main aim of our community is to share experiences, knowledge and help increase the understanding and awareness of Diabetes. The introductions forum is a great place to start with the community. ■ Rules ■ Getting Started With DiabetesForum.com

The Diabetes News section is a place to share any new stories or information you have come across related to Diabetes for the rest of the forum to share and discuss. If you have seen or read about new medication, diabetes treatments, medical breakthroughs or any interesting stories of personal interest then please post and discuss them here. From time to time we will take some of the Diabetes News stories from this section and write them up in our Diabetes Blog.

The Diabetes Forum lounge is the more social area of the community. Please feel free to drop in, and discuss anything that’s on your mind. Use this area for off topic discussions, making friends and being social.

This section of the forum can be used to discuss anything and everything to do with Diabetes. Please use this general Diabetes section for any comments or discussions that don't fit into the more specific forum categories below. Please also ensure that all posts and threads are on topic, about Diabetes.

Are you worried you are a diabetic? Are you diabetic and concerned about any new or different symptoms? Are you looking for a diabetes test? Please feel free to post your questions, concerns or related information in our Diabetes Symptoms section. See if any other members are going through the same issues or have already been through them and can offer you some valuable experience and advice.

As there is currently no cure for the chronic, Diabetes mellitus – the emphasis must be on treatment and management to avoid complications. Please use this section to discuss how you carefully control and manage your Diabetes. Please let us know what is and isn’t working for you. Feel free to discuss all areas of treatment and management of Diabetes including diet, exercise, weight loss, insulin usage, oral drugs and more.

Diabetes can cause many short term, long term, acute and chronic complications. Please use this section to discuss any experiences you have with Diabetes related complications. New members please feel free to post about your concerns and ask questions to the community.

A healthy, well balanced, nutritious diet which factors in Diabetes can be crucial for the long term management of Diabetes. Use this section to discuss your diet, what you would like to try, swap recipes and more.

Do you have tasty recipes you'd like to share or are you looking for a recipe which is used by other diabetics? This is the place to be.

This new section is for visitors of the site who have friends, family and people they care about living with Diabetes. Feel free to post your questions here for the Diabetes Forum community. Please do also share your experience and advice about living with Diabetes through others.

Please use this section of the Diabetes Forum to discuss childhood Diabetes. Parents, please feel free to discuss your concerns and seek answers for any questions to might have. Any members that have experience with childhood Diabetes, please share your experiences.

Gestational Diabetes can effect from 3-10% of all pregnancies. If you are pregnant and concerned about gestational Diabetes then please feel free to use this section of the forum to discuss Diabetes during your pregnancy. If you have any experience of Diabetes during pregnancy then please feel free to share your knowledge with other members here.

Use this section of the Diabetes Forum to post your Diabetes associations or group announcements. This section is not only for the larger associations like the American Diabetes Association or Diabetes UK but also for smaller groups.

Any announcements or news about the diabetes forum will be published here.

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Do you want to give feedback on the forum or do you have comments? Please post them here.