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So...what's the theories?, what causes type 1 in the first place?

If you go and look at the guys and St Thomas' research site, they do now screen but you have to volunteer.
 
Yeah... My GP still says i got it because of heavy flu!!! It was 22 years ago. I still ask the same question.. How and why.
 
My diagnosis in 1978 was preceded by Hand,Foot ,Mouth disease with a rash and blisters on my hands and feet. In the hospital the Doctor said he thought my diagnosis was probably linked to the Coxsackie virus which causes HFM Disease as well as the genetic link to my Grandma, Uncle and cousin all having T1.
 
tim2000s said:
I'm not sure the number of children being diagnosed with type 1 has changed as significantly as the number of children being diagnosed with type 2. What has increased from a t1 point of view, or so it seems, is the number of t1s diagnosed as adults. T1 was always seen as a juvenile onset condition when I was diagnosed.
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I suspect the reason for the 'increase' in late onset T1s is the better diagnosis. Many GPs, including mine at diagnosis, assumed that if you weren't born with T1 then you were a T2. Now more people are having the two tests or if they are thin then they aren't automatically labelled T2. It's still a problem but reducing?
 
On the topic of juvenile onset t1, the numbers were relatively stable until the 50s, but then increased at a steady rate until the 90s where they stabilised, following an S curve. I haven't seen data for the 2000 period onwards. A quick search on the Web shows a lot of information relating to this, although it shows that juvenile onset rather than sub-5 has stabilised whilst the age of onset has moved to be earlier.
 
The food industry and the genetic food scientists are definitely major contenders for the blame of the increase of diabetes, they've synthesized food and put what has been called 'food simulations' not real food, out on the shelves and tables, processed and totally inorganic, its a big hush hush inside food industry mafia job on the public, there is just too many people to feed on the planet with anything real or organic, real food takes time to grow in a healthy environment, without any super nutes that force growth, its a multi million zillion $$$£££ stock market mega crime of the century and every one sleep walks into it with a big cheap white plastic spoon.
 
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According to the research by Dr Alessio Fasano, the factors involved in all autoimmune disease are (1) genetic susceptibility, (2) environmental trigger and (3) intestinal permeability. It appears all 3 factors have to be present for disease onset. Trying to find one cause is probably a fruitless exercise.
 
It's genetic, the trigger seems to be some kind of trauma or illness. I had a viral infection in my throat I've never felt that sick in my life and then I'm suddenly I'm Diabetic in my early 20's.
 
I was 13 when I was diagnosed and my doctor asked me the same question. At the time I couldn't think of any trauma or illness but then my mum reminded me that I'd fallen off a horse about 2/3 months earlier!! They think the fall triggered mine. There was a young girl on the same ward as me who had just been diagnosed too and she had been in a car accident. One of my friends developed Type 1 after she had her baby in her early 20's, another one of my friends had glandular fever and a few years later another friend of my husbands moved to Dubai and started a really high pressure job, whilst he was there he started to get thirsty and lost a LOT of weight. He was told he had type 2 but he's on insulin (WAY more than me!) as tablets/diet were not doing anything.

There's usually something (sometimes not a big thing) that triggers it but not always. It's just in our genes unfortunately. :(
 
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Diamattic said:
I looked into this when i was diagnosed last year.

My findings pointed to - Certain people are born with increased risk to developing T1D, at some point in their life they are exposed to something in their environment that triggers it. Most of what i read said it certain viruses can set off the body to attack the pancreas, destroying the beta cells, making us diabetic.

Some of the triggers were certain strains or types of viruses, but also i did read some papers stating something related to 'colder climates'. They say the locations that typically get cold weather have a much higher percentage of T1Ds, and more people develop it during the winter months.

Which fits my case. I am in Canada, Last year was apparently the coldest winter in my life time, and its when i developed my T1D.

So i can get behind the 'risk and trigger' theory. It makes sense, otherwise we would be born with it, so the potential has to be there, and something has to set it off.

EDIT - To add to this, when i diagnosed, i was never sick, no emotional or physical trauma. Nothing in my life 'suddenly changed' I had been living in the same place for years, with the same job, friends, gf.. Everything was normal, until one day things just went downhill... months later i was in the hospital. Still in good spirits.

TBH, sometimes i forget i have it lol I have lived 29 years without, and 10months with it, so between meals when i don't 'feel weird' or when i am doing things i love to do I forget its there. I hope to keep it this way as long as possible lol
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I hope you get to you 50th year and beyond that too, always onwards and upwards :)
 
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