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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AnnieB13" data-source="post: 1268587" data-attributes="member: 137685"><p>Hi Dale, no advice I'm afraid, and I'm no expert, but I've come to believe that there could definitely be a link.  My son sustained a neck injury and suffered for a year before finding out it was fractured and had to have spinal surgery.  Shortly after that, he crashed his car (wasn't hurt thank God) then a year or so later was diagnosed with Type 1, completely out of the blue (like most T1's).  It's only after my sister said she knows of two young men who had serious motorcycle accidents who went on to develop T1 that made me think this way.  My son was aged 22, so like you, not the most usual age to get it.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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