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    Actress Elizabeth Perkins discusses how ‘co-stars’ help her manage and cope with diabetes

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Hello all over -- -- -- -- -- demanding one in ten adults are living with diabetes in the US today.

In order to mention -- does he successfully patients need to reach out and gain support from their family and friends.

Golden Globe and Emmy nominated actress Elizabeth Perkins was diagnosed with type one diabetes in 2005.

With the help of our support network Elizabeth was able to open up about living with diabetes and -- here today to share -- story and help others.

Welcome thank -- Hands wow 2005.

Type one diabetes yes.

It's shocking you wouldn't shock right it was really overwhelming for me because prior to that you know nothing movies and I guess seeing -- he's going about my life -- I -- got very sick.

And was diagnosed.

With type one diabetes and it was.

But is that a shock and are very overwhelming.

Thing to.

Learn how to manage right at the beginning it was very isolating.

I was doing a television show and I'd be -- insulin in my trailer felt alone.

Yes because I -- what is what tell folks type one diabetes from before folks out there you basically you are dependent.

A 100%.

On getting your insulin.

From you know the the outside because you're really not making any insulin making a hole and 24 hours exactly and I just can't go up into the 56 hundred's and you go into -- -- -- right exactly give me an idea of what things brought you to the to the doctor because you must have been walking around with very high sugar.

Shares.

I'm just feeling fatigue headache from.

Blurry vision in -- -- Thursday -- lost a lot of weight.

And feel good right.

And it actually the diagnosis is came through a routine.

Blood test.

Right and present in the high sixes and solved says hundreds which has made an amazing economize and you can -- oh yeah.

Right and the minute I got the insulin in the -- feeling a 100% better.

One of the things that you talk about it is.

And he kept it quiet for awhile this February -- -- by -- career where I'm very aware gazes are gonna thinks they have come down at this rise disease and and it wasn't until I began opening up to my family and my coworkers that I.

I understood the power of support in managing the disease like -- Which is one of the reasons I'm -- Partnered with -- if the US.

To work on the campaign diabetes co stars which promotes awareness.

So that people living with diabetes campaign is basically.

We stars like yourself.

-- Saying oh by the way I got it I got -- and coming out and being honest about it and and to celebrate the people in our lives.

To support us on this this journey -- managing our diabetes.

We're going to be making documentary film.

About co stars and then.

They're the people they support tour living with diabetes -- a nation -- casting call for it.

Had diabetes customers dot com and -- really.

Really anxious to hear people's inspiring stories like -- why I mean why do you think it's important for folks to have.

Coast dollars in the lives of those people that they share this would.

Because it's it's a very daunting thing to learn to manage this disease and then -- to go about managing on a daily basis without the support and your family.

We learned to eat differently we learned to exercise regularly we learned to.

Garner support from each of the mechanism is to Denny a gigantic cake.

Right in front -- -- and all of us loss weighed all of us became like healthier.

And so now I eat better.

I managed my exercise.

-- Take my insulin use Atlantis in the solar -- pen which is amazing right for me it's very simple to use it's its once a day.

I learned about.

The effects of low blood sugar that can -- with insulin and -- which are can be very serious.

About allergies to insulin and to you but that's a conversation everyone should have a deductible is every try program is different for different yet opening them in just opening up and see where my husband -- have you done in Atlanta they go right when I was shaking and -- -- room my daughter says that to me today.

And all right just having that support system is -- That's what this campaign is about celebrating those who weren't there for people who are managing disease and -- -- -- now you're starting in into it in new television show this thing is there a cameo part for me.

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And of course we think senate before again bringing attention to this national campaign -- had to be about what I can people get more info.

Go to diabetes co stars dot com.

If you would like to participate in our documentary you can submit either video.

-- testimonial or written.

Right and will look at all and -- -- stories of some mysterious story and being in the document in human.

Thank you so much for joining us thank you Fannie do you have any health questions you get email me your fox I've -- -- many of functions dot com.

Thanks for what -- a Fox News on document.

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