Recent Content by Margot Elizabeth

whoops, thanks! I was searching lactose intolerance and type 1 and found this site. (note to self: check dates : )

I see your point. When I was diagnosed fifty years ago adult onset type 1 was almost unheard of! : ) Friends with type 1 are dying in their 40s and 50s of complications, seizures, overnight lows etc., so I'm a tad sensitive about the suggestion that somehow it's easier as one ages. Of course...

Zand, that is surely in type 2? Typically as type 1s age, the disease becomes more difficult to control. Women have the advantage of menopause, helpful, but other issues around nerve damage, developing other autoimmune disorders (MS, thyroid disorders, RA, etc.), complications, and aging tend to...

Some of the symptoms above sound a lot like gastroparesis, which happens more frequently in people with T1 diabetes than in the regular population. This is not to say that you don't also have lactose intolerance, but the hypoglycemia after eating, bloating, pain, and nausea -- waves of it, it's...