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Privacy Notice Coronation Street star Sue Cleaver has opened up about her Type 2 diabetes diagnosis and how one piece of technology has left her feeling like she has a “superpower” with her at all times. In an exclusive interview with OK!, Sue, who recently shared an exciting career update, has discussed her experience after being diagnosed with diabetes 30 years ago and how where she once found the news “terrifying” things have become less worry-inducing. “I’ve had diabetes for 30 years. I got it 30 years ago when I was pregnant and unfortunately it didn’t go. When I was first diagnosed, I remember being very frightened and very anxious. I’d planned my baby and I’d been so careful. I’d done everything by the book,” she explained.
Sue Cleaver was diagnosed with diabetes 30 years ago
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“This is 30 years ago so things have changed but I was eating the right things, I did everything. So when I got diagnosed at 27 weeks, it was a big shock. I think the main impact it had on me was, quite frankly, that I found it terrifying. I had no understanding of what it meant.” Sue, 60, isn’t alone in not having an understanding when she was first diagnosed. According to Decxom’s State of Type 2 Report, from Dexcom, nearly half (49%) of individuals with Type 2 diabetes were unaware of the condition’s effects when diagnosed. Meanwhile its I Wish You Knew campaign found that 76% of people with diabetes feel misunderstood.
Sue says that her diagnosis was initially “terrifying”
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Three decades on Sue, is a lot more positive. “I don’t live with diabetes, diabetes lives with me. I live my life, as anyone else does. I have a busy life. I get on with it, she explained, adding that things have “got easier over the years to manage” thanks to technology such as Dexcom’s new Dexcom ONE+ – a CGM device that can easily track real-time glucose readings. “I’m in control. It is like having a superpower that I just have to look at my phone and go, ‘Oh, that’s what I’m reading’. I don’t have to worry about pricking my finger. I don’t have to worry about bleeding on my costume in the middle of a scene and in the wardrobe department going, ‘Stop! There’s blood on her top!’ because all those things have happened. It just makes my life so easy. I don’t have to think ahead and worry about it,” she said.
Sue is known for playing Eileen Grimshaw on Coronation Street
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“It gives me real confidence that I’m in control of what happens. It’s no longer a guessing game. Especially with the work I do. Before I go on stage, I check my sugars. I have a look at my phone. It’s all loaded onto my phone. I can see what my sugars are. I can see, ‘oh, maybe I should eat something now before the first half’. It just takes all the guesswork out of it so I never have any nasty surprises.”
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