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<blockquote data-quote="RuthW" data-source="post: 875089" data-attributes="member: 148713"><p>Hey. My mum keeps telling me that when you've been Type 1 for fifty years, you can get a medal ( from whatever the British Diabetic Association is called now). Did you get one?</p><p></p><p>In answer to OP's question:</p><p></p><p>And I've had it since 1967, probably triggered by a minor operation I had a few months before. I got hypothyroidism at 13 (1975). I've had frozen shoulder twice and very, very minor bleeding in one eye. No laser treatment yet and no detectable vision deficiencies. I am rather inflexible, which can be a side effect of high blood sugars, though I can improve that with exercise.</p><p></p><p>Lately, I have been putting on belly fat, my previously superb blood pressure was not good at the last appointment, and my cholesterol is relatively high ( trigs are very low, though).</p><p></p><p>I also believe that some people (like me) are just lucky. There's no justice in this illness. I know people who have always been "good diabetics", much better than me, and they have much worse complications after a very short time. I believe that it's not all about the blood sugar. I think that's very important, but I think some people have more of a syndrome, where the autoimmune system attacks other parts of the body too. Otherwise, I think the variation in outcomes is inexplicable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RuthW, post: 875089, member: 148713"] Hey. My mum keeps telling me that when you've been Type 1 for fifty years, you can get a medal ( from whatever the British Diabetic Association is called now). Did you get one? In answer to OP's question: And I've had it since 1967, probably triggered by a minor operation I had a few months before. I got hypothyroidism at 13 (1975). I've had frozen shoulder twice and very, very minor bleeding in one eye. No laser treatment yet and no detectable vision deficiencies. I am rather inflexible, which can be a side effect of high blood sugars, though I can improve that with exercise. Lately, I have been putting on belly fat, my previously superb blood pressure was not good at the last appointment, and my cholesterol is relatively high ( trigs are very low, though). I also believe that some people (like me) are just lucky. There's no justice in this illness. I know people who have always been "good diabetics", much better than me, and they have much worse complications after a very short time. I believe that it's not all about the blood sugar. I think that's very important, but I think some people have more of a syndrome, where the autoimmune system attacks other parts of the body too. Otherwise, I think the variation in outcomes is inexplicable. [/QUOTE]
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