I wonder if anyone yet knows what life expectancy is for people diagnosed in 2017? There are many possible treatment developments that’ll occur in the next 60 - 70 years which could affect how long people with T1 can expect to live.
I did look up life expectancy for people diagnosed in the era when I was, in 1969, and it was 69 years. That’ll be a statistic, and won’t apply to the individual, so it doesn’t let me know how many years I’m going to live for. I’ll get to that milestone next year and I intend to walk on by.
Nevertheless, it’s a good length of time for people diagnosed before the development of portable individual blood sugar meters, libre, tweaked ecoli insulins, insulin pens, light-weight pumps, and greater knowledge of the ways nutrition affects an individual’s diabetic health. So you see there are reasons to feel hopeful, even if managing T1 can sometimes be a time consuming pain in the butt.