Our Breakthrough T1D community works every day to make type 1 diabetes a thing of the past.
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a condition that’s often invisible or misunderstood. But when the world sees T1D, we move closer to life-changing breakthroughs in research, advocacy, and support—helping people with T1D live fuller, healthier lives as we drive toward cures.
This work is powered by our community. Whether you live with T1D yourself, help family or friends manage the condition, or simply want to make a difference, you’re contributing to our shared goal of turning type 1 into type none!
This National Diabetes Awareness Month (NDAM), we’re sharing a few of your stories.
When I was diagnosed [with T1D], I was struggling as a D3 pitcher and now I’m pitching in the MLB for the Padres. A lot of hard work accompanied getting healthy and educated, but I do feel grateful for the technology that allows me to take such good care of myself.”
We can pack the bags and have everything we need, and then sometimes blood sugars are wonky and you just really have to roll with it. Find your people who will help you walk alongside this journey.”
Part of managing diabetes is trying to expect the unexpected; everything impacts T1D, from food to stress to exercise to sleep. Even if I do the exact same things every single day, my blood sugars would still be different, which doesn’t mean I am doing something wrong.”
Diabetes can feel incredibly isolating—it lives quietly inside you, invisible to most people. [Breakthrough T1D Run] races crack that open. For a few hours, you’re surrounded by people who understand exactly what you carry, and that’s something you can’t find anywhere else.”
I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when I was 12. Life back then was pretty hard. I remember all the struggles before continuous glucose monitors and insulin pumps, and the life of people with this disease has dramatically improved over the past few years, and it’s going to improve further as we go.”
Once you’re there [at Ride], it’s like you’re almost carried along by your teammates and the other riders and all of the coaches that are there to cheer you along, to help you if you have trouble. I always come off every ride just feeling like man, I can do anything. I can take on the world, and we’re going to cure it!”
I wanted to get Carter involved with meeting other people who have type 1 diabetes because we have nobody. He doesn’t know anybody with type 1, we have no family members. I thought it’d be good for him to get himself out there [at Walk], meet some other kids, and show him that he’s not alone in this.”
[Breakthrough T1D] is not only researching for a cure, but developing new technology to make type 1 diabetes easier to live with.”
Celebrate your diaversary, bedazzle your Omnipod, rock your fun patterned tapes, celebrate with diabesties. Find little ways to bring joy into it, but also take the time to feel the bad days. Take the time to learn how to let the good and bad coexist.”
Each step, each breakthrough is getting us closer and closer to our goal of a world without T1D. It’s not a question of if it will happen, but a question of when.”
Share Your Story
Living with T1D looks different for everyone. We want to hear your story: the highs, the lows, the challenges you’ve overcome, and the people who have supported you on your journey.
