Totto
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Paternal grandmother and all her siblings were diabetic. Normal life span, good habits.
My father and all his siblings maybe bar one were diabetic. Shortish-normal life span, bad habits.
I am diabetic and my brother probably also as he keeps drinking lots of water, much more than I were but he is a kind of Never a doctor they will kill you-type of man. So when he finally sees a Doctor it might well be final.
As a child I was told diabetes was inherited and that the severe kind was was passed from mother to son and from father to daughter so I have kept an eye on my bg all my adult life. I was also told some of my diabetic relatives were mildly ill as they couldn't tolerate diabetic medication. I also was told you get diabetes from eating sugar, as this was in the era before pasta, pizza, rice with every second meal etc.
Growing up in a diabetic family we never had any sweet things around apart from Christmas time. I never got into a sweet habit, I haven't eaten much carbs of any kind for the past years and yet my OGTT shows diabetes.
I have set my mother the task of phoning some of my cousins, she is 93 and needs something she can do instead of investing her energy in her own ailments.
Any suggestions concerning the kind of genes at play here? Lots of mild diabetes? In several generations? As I have a perfect BP, good cholesterol, normal weight and no other typical risk factors for diabetes.
My father and all his siblings maybe bar one were diabetic. Shortish-normal life span, bad habits.
I am diabetic and my brother probably also as he keeps drinking lots of water, much more than I were but he is a kind of Never a doctor they will kill you-type of man. So when he finally sees a Doctor it might well be final.
As a child I was told diabetes was inherited and that the severe kind was was passed from mother to son and from father to daughter so I have kept an eye on my bg all my adult life. I was also told some of my diabetic relatives were mildly ill as they couldn't tolerate diabetic medication. I also was told you get diabetes from eating sugar, as this was in the era before pasta, pizza, rice with every second meal etc.
Growing up in a diabetic family we never had any sweet things around apart from Christmas time. I never got into a sweet habit, I haven't eaten much carbs of any kind for the past years and yet my OGTT shows diabetes.
I have set my mother the task of phoning some of my cousins, she is 93 and needs something she can do instead of investing her energy in her own ailments.
Any suggestions concerning the kind of genes at play here? Lots of mild diabetes? In several generations? As I have a perfect BP, good cholesterol, normal weight and no other typical risk factors for diabetes.
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