MIDD scares me a fair bit, and I hope I don't have it. I'm 40 years old, diagnosed with diabetes about a year ago, but in hindsight have had symptoms for two years before that. I'm on mdi, which works fine for me, but neither I nor my dn are sure if I'm type1 (lada) or type2. As I'm already treated like a type1, which works quite well for me at the moment, I don't see the advantage in tests to determine my type. Unless it's MIDD maybe. My mother died from an accident at age 44. She had had severe and progressive hearing loss for about 8 years before she died. Shortly before that accident we did a fingerprick test for fun with the meter of my friend , and it read highish. She planned to follow up on that, but she died shortly after. Her sister, now 69 years old has been diagnosed diabetic for some years now, and has hearing problems. Not unusual for an overweight old woman, but still. Their other sister has no known problems with either blood sugar or hearing. Their mother has lived to 89 years with hearing loss for years, don't remember how long, but no known diabetes. There is no other family on mothers side, nor do I have siblings. Am I daft to worry (a little) about MIDD or is it a possibility?