polyendocrinegirl
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New member but far from new to diabetes.
I was diagnosed in 1978 with gestational diabetes, It ended up sticking around.
My mother was type 1 (she died at age 36 of complications of diabetes), I was diagnosed next. Then one of my two siblings, a brother, was diagnosed with type 1 (he died at age 48 of complications of diabetes). My other sibling, a brother, was diagnosed type 1 in 2012 (well, diagnosed type 2 in the UK, diagnosed LADA type 1 in the US following admission to the hospital with DKA when visiting my husband and I, and at a recent UK clinic appointment he was told he was type 2 again purely because a single fingerprick ketone test result reported zero ketones with a separate fingerprick reporting high blood glucose. Discussions are ongoing. My money's on his being type 1 as he has GAD-65 and C-Peptide results from the Mayo which confirm it.)
In addition I have 15 close relatives (cousins, uncles, aunts) who have all been diagnosed with type 1. So, yup, there's a very definite familial tendency to the condition
I have four other autoimmune conditions - primary Addison's disease, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, vitiligo, and oral lichen planus. I guess I've taken a hammering from the autoimmune stick. I have a boatload of other conditions non-autoimmune conditions but I'm still kicking.
I was happy to stick to using insulin syringes and fingerprick testing ten times daily (needed because as well as diabetes, Addison's disease affects one's blood glucose) for donkey's years, with my husband helping out with occasional nocturnal hypos, but I've been recently widowed. Lack of nocturnal hypos = a big problem now that I'm on my own and I was granted funding for a Medtronic 640g pump and associated sensors and transmitters about three months ago. I think pumping is great.
Last A1C was 57 but I'm hoping to see improvements now that I'm pumping.
So. That's me. Hey, all!
I was diagnosed in 1978 with gestational diabetes, It ended up sticking around.
My mother was type 1 (she died at age 36 of complications of diabetes), I was diagnosed next. Then one of my two siblings, a brother, was diagnosed with type 1 (he died at age 48 of complications of diabetes). My other sibling, a brother, was diagnosed type 1 in 2012 (well, diagnosed type 2 in the UK, diagnosed LADA type 1 in the US following admission to the hospital with DKA when visiting my husband and I, and at a recent UK clinic appointment he was told he was type 2 again purely because a single fingerprick ketone test result reported zero ketones with a separate fingerprick reporting high blood glucose. Discussions are ongoing. My money's on his being type 1 as he has GAD-65 and C-Peptide results from the Mayo which confirm it.)
In addition I have 15 close relatives (cousins, uncles, aunts) who have all been diagnosed with type 1. So, yup, there's a very definite familial tendency to the condition
I have four other autoimmune conditions - primary Addison's disease, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, vitiligo, and oral lichen planus. I guess I've taken a hammering from the autoimmune stick. I have a boatload of other conditions non-autoimmune conditions but I'm still kicking.
I was happy to stick to using insulin syringes and fingerprick testing ten times daily (needed because as well as diabetes, Addison's disease affects one's blood glucose) for donkey's years, with my husband helping out with occasional nocturnal hypos, but I've been recently widowed. Lack of nocturnal hypos = a big problem now that I'm on my own and I was granted funding for a Medtronic 640g pump and associated sensors and transmitters about three months ago. I think pumping is great.
Last A1C was 57 but I'm hoping to see improvements now that I'm pumping.
So. That's me. Hey, all!
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