Strong question- what do you think caused your diabetes (type 1)

[Peter03]

Yes. Autoimmune to blame for my diabetes and a few other illnesses, why I have no idea, but I can say life has been good for me on the whole

 

[Antje77]

However, these therories do tend to only happen when I'm low...

It's not the first time you've mentioned your lows, they sound so much more interesting than mine!
I'd love a thread on interesting hypo symptoms, as this one is not the place to discuss it

 

[Fenn]

Personally I feel it was just good luck, could have been a thousand and one other horrible things that the poor sufferers have no control over. My family is stuffed full of diabetics so I reckon I’m genetically lucky.

 

[basingirl72]

I had a car accident about 6 months before I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes

 

[becca59]

My brother has it. Diagnosed at 15. Mine came along 33years afterwards at 54. I had had another autoimmune condition pop up 4 years before and then had an horrendous bout of flu. Proper in bed for 2 weeks flu. I wasn’t well for some months after that. Requiring help to get home from the shop on one occasion as I felt peculiar. With the knowledge I have now it was definitely diabetes. Full blown symptoms came on rapidly including a huge weight loss.
So, for me I think it was in the genes, and I think the illness kickstarted it. Plus as a family we have varied unusual autoimmune conditions.

 

[Torres71]

My whole type 1 journey has completely mystified me, as I am the only person in my entire family that has ever had diabetes. Trying to piece it together is the hard part. I do have Chron's Disease & am taking immunosuppressants. These are supposed to suppress the immune system, yet for me mine still managed to destroy the beta cells in my pancreas. I did find out I had the EBV virus in the past & there is supposed to be a link in triggering type 1 diabetes. All good for thought?

 

[Rylando88]

I personally go back and forth with this . I have nobody in my family who are diabetics other than type 2 . I was a very active , healthy kid when I was young, I would just like peoples open opinions on how they feel on why/how they got diabetes.

My mum had been recently diagnosed with an illness and was very sick and whilst she was in recovery we were in a pretty bad car crash (not our fault, man on motorbike doing 70-odd mph on a 30mph road, didn't spot us in time), a couple of months after this I ended up in a diabetic coma. No one in family etc other than my paternal grandmother who was type 2. Doctors say they think it was the shock to my system. I was 10 years old, fit and well otherwise!

 

[mick808]

didnt realise. both my brother and I have type 2..found out distant family members had it.

 

[nicki92]

I wish I knew! I was diagnosed at the end of September and am otherwise fit and healthy, eat healthily and did plenty of exercise. So it was a big shock.

I have an uncle also with type 1, an aunt with Crohn's and two cousins with coeliac disease. All on the same side of the family... I didn't know before that autoimmune diseases were linked to each other? But this feels like a lot in one family I think?

Interesting reading everyone's theories though. I didn't know there was a link with trauma, so that was an interesting one.

 

[NicoleC1971]

Maybe it is karma . In a past life maybe I was a researcher who made a mouse diabetic but failed to cure it?
I don't know as no prior viral infection nor emotional or physical trauma could be linked other than moving to the Isle of Wight in 1981.

 

[Yaya10_10]

Maybe it is karma . In a past life maybe I was a researcher who made a mouse diabetic but failed to cure it?
I don't know as no prior viral infection nor emotional or physical trauma could be linked other than moving to the Isle of Wight in 1981.

Intersting link

Thanks for sharing

 

[ChuckJones]

I think we got diabetes because we were asking our math teachers (back then)
where would we use maths?.

So, now we have the answers, calculate carb, units, corrections, and ratio!


LOL.

Just kidding, actually I think I got it because of some stressful time.

Loooool this answer actually made me laugh hard!

 

[Martin153]

I got way to stressed when doing exams. Strangely I actually perform well when stressed.
But there is no doubt in my mind that stress caused it in me 38 years ago.
Read anything on stress & it can cause all sorts of damage to you.
So learn a universal law statement I found out about..
"It's only the way you think about anything that makes you feel the way you do"
May not sound a lot but read it again & again & when something is upsetting you or stressing you, remember that statement.

 

[daffy1]

I was diagnosed by pure chance as I was seeing a neurologist for something else and I got a phone call to go straight to hospital as my bloods where way too high at 26.
Stupidly I’d shown all the signs weight loss and excessive drinking and i was constantly falling asleep anywhere but I was totally ignorant of the symptoms so just did nothing
There’s no history of it in the family and I wasn’t overweight so the only thing that the doctors put it down to was olanzapine as I’d been on it for several years and never had my sugars checked. There’s now a warning on the PIL That you must have regular glucose checks

 

[Medina27]

Cows milk has been my favourite explanation, I mean everyone is exposed to that, in every stage of life, unlike alcohol or stress. I forget the name of the bacteria found in there, p.acnes or something

 

[Bubbleblower]

the name of the bacteria found in there

A1 beta-casein milk protein and other environmental pre-disposing factors for type 1 diabetes

After the second world war, as part of the Marshall aid, kids were send to so called holiday colonies for at least 6 weeks with the goal to “fatten up” and they got lots and lots of milk. This program ran untill the early seventies and must have had a huge impact on our eating habits, directly or indirectly.

 

[StewM]

Cows milk has been my favourite explanation, I mean everyone is exposed to that, in every stage of life, unlike alcohol or stress. I forget the name of the bacteria found in there, p.acnes or something

In my case, I'd had literally zero cow's milk before diagnosis.

 

[Medina27]

In my case, I'd had literally zero cow's milk before diagnosis.

Not even once? It's in hundreds of things, and bacteria has been known to survive the pasteurisation process

 

[Medina27]

It has to be something that both babies and adults are exposed to. In theory, you would think that would be a pretty short list

 

[mooshk]

Genuinely think it's trauma. There's some recent research on the effects of trauma on autoimmune response, both physical and psychological trauma