Ozymandias
Thanks for the reply and your experiences as well. I went for the medical yesterday and much of what you say is still the case (although the Doctor checked and it looks like 90 days of blood sugar readings is now required).
As expected, if it wasn't for that pesky diabetes I would have passed the class 2 on the spot as everything else is fine. I know the additional tests that they want me to do including a treadmill ECG and as my doctor said, the more paperwork that I can supply to support my management the better as they have never rejected a medical because of too much information!
If people are interested (as there have been over 300 views of this thread already and statistically around 6000 PPRuNers will have type 1 whether they know it or not), I'd be happy to post my experiences, challenges etc as they occur.
Regards
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