Type 1 Type 1 and having children

pavlosn said:

"Type 1 and type 2 diabetes have different causes. Yet two factors are important in both. You inherit a predisposition to the disease then something in your environment triggers it.

Genes alone are not enough. One proof of this is identical twins. Identical twins have identical genes. Yet when one twin has type 1 diabetes, the other gets the disease at most only half the time."

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" In general, if you are a man with type 1 diabetes, the odds of your child developing diabetes are 1 in 17.

If you are a woman with type 1 diabetes and your child was born before you were 25, your child's risk is 1 in 25; if your child was born after you turned 25, your child's risk is 1 in 100.

Your child's risk is doubled if you developed diabetes before age 11. If both you and your partner have type 1 diabetes, the risk is between 1 in 10 and 1 in 4.

There is an exception to these numbers. About 1 in every 7 people with type 1 diabetes has a condition called type 2 polyglandular autoimmune syndrome. In addition to having diabetes, these people also have thyroid disease and a poorly working adrenal gland. Some also have other immune systemdisorders. If you have this syndrome, your child's risk of getting the syndrome — including type 1 diabetes — is 1 in 2."

http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-basics/genetics-of-diabetes.html?referrer=http://www.google.com.cy/



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Scott-C said:

It's a difficult question you've got there, @enea2016 , and I hope you find the answer to it.

If I was in the same position, I'd probably think, well, what are me and the wife going to say to each other in twenty or thirty years time when we talk about our decision all those years ago to not have a kid just because I happened to be T1?

I reckon we'd both deeply regret not having a kid just because there was a statistical chance that he/she might become T1.

Statistics and % chances of your offspring being T1 are one thing. Living your life is another. No-one gets anywhere without taking a few risks.

You're recently dx'd. Please don't make any life changing decisions about whether or not to have kids so early on in your T1 life.

Your perspective on it might change once you've lived with it longer. It's quite common in the first year or two after dx to see it as this overwhelmingly negative thing where the idea of having kids seems impossible, but after you get used to it, you might start thinking, yeah, I can manage this.

Best wishes, man.

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slip said:

Question is, are either of your parents T1D? did they pass it on to you? you've not said so I assume they aren't diabetic, yet you are.

Do you have 'THE' T1D inheritance gene?.............

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