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Type 1 - Is it genetic?

I have type 1 and have done since 7 years old am now 33 and not a single person in my close or secondary family (cousins/aunts/ nephews etc) have type1 or type2
 
I was diagnosed t1 @25, my mum was a t1 @24. Every new health professional I see I ask is it connected, they all say it isn't. No one else in family has/had it. Just in conversations with a research team who are going to screen my children's blood (& my brother's) to see if they may be at risk of developing it in the future (saw it on a poster with the Jonah brothers on it at local hospital). there are trials for immunisation treatments if they are at risk, not sure I'd take that up but would consider. if anyone interested, do inbox me (can't remember name of it)
 
Hi diagnosed Type 1 at 55 years old I'm 57 now came out of the blue. No history of either Type 1 or Type 2 in any of my family. My parents lived well into their eighties as did my grandparents. Paternal grandmother died a week short of her ninetieth birthday so they all had long lives to develop diabetes but none did so where did mine come from? Have a good weekend everyone :D
 
My brother diagnosed type 1 when he was 15 (17 years ago) and a 2nd cousin also type 1 since she was a baby. I was diagnosed type 1 last year and have had Graves disease and thyroid problems since I was a teenager resulting in a thyroidectamy (sp?) 12 years ago. I think this is connected through your endocrine system?? Have an appointment to see the endocrine specialist I used to see next month so see what he has to say?? Anyone else with thyroid problems as well? :?
 
my grandfather died of diabetes complications was type 2 , my grandmother had diabetes type 2, my mother is type 2 diabetic, and i am a type 1 diabetic.
 
I've been type 1 for 10 years, diagnosed aged 11. No history of either type 1 or 2 in my family as far as I know, but we do have rather a lot of asthma/eczema/hayfever and a decidedly genetic penicillin allergy running down the females on my dad's side of the family, including me. If the dominant genes in my family run true I'm going to have ginger children, boys who are tall and girls who are allergic to penicillin! :roll: xx
 
Hey there, I only know of one other family member that had T1 diabetes, and that was my great-grandfather who I sadly never got to know. Both my grandfather and great-grandmother had T2 but as you say I don't think it truly has a connection to T1 :)
 
I'm an oldie now and have been type 1 for 50 years. Both my mother and grandmother were both type 1's. My great-grandmother died from the disease as insulin was not available in those days.

After all these years I don't have any complications which, although very grateful, has always puzzled me. I've known other diabetics who have been just as careful as me and they had complications after a few years. A doctor once told me that it was perhaps because I inherited the illness straight from a long genetic line which he said does sometimes give a few people some type of protection. He gave it a name which I can't now recall.

Bill
 
definitely in my family
My sister diagnosed at 3
Me diagnosed at 12
My mum diagnosed at (i dont know)
My granddad (dads dad)
My dads cousin
My mums uncle
AND WE ARE ALL TYPE 1
Howver there are a few type 2s in my family
 
I was diagnosed with type 1 when I was 9 years old it was on a holiday to Spain got off the plain in uk and mum new straight away what was wrong and next day was on injections and life with diabetes began I'm now 19. literally a year later on the plane back from Spain again I asked my mum

Me -could I have my second drink before getting on the plane home,

mum said "no you've had enough.

Me -I said that's not fair my sister has had 5 bottles of coke.
And soon as I said that mum new she was diabetic as it was a repeat with of me last year. Without thinking I did her blood sugar it was HI and we told the hostesses what was up and then just gave us water after water and we got it down to 11 by the time we landed
 
I'm type 1, 5 years ago... never went to the Dr or had any serious problem... until I went on holiday to Asia and caught malaria and a few months after that I had all the symptoms of diabetes and no one in my family has it aswell
 
There wasn't any T1 in m y family until I was diagnosed. Five years later my cousin was also diagnosed. There is, however, a genetic auto-immune link on my mother's side.

My mother and an aunt suffer an auto immune thyroid problem. My grandmother also has an auto immune condition. One of my Aunts and my sister have Vitiligo. My cousin and I both have T1.

I'd say that there is a fairly good set of empirical evidence within our family that a genetic auto-immune condition exists that can be revealed in different ways, one of which is T1.
 
I have a big family, but the only other person with Type 1 diabetes (or any diabetes) is one of my cousins. There aren't any autoimmune diseases either.
 
My Grandmother and an Aunt on my Mothers side both also have T1.
I was 28 when diagnosed, my Gran was 30 and my Aunt was 34.
 
Nobody in my entire family had diabetes before me. I was 12 when I was diagnosed with type 1. 4 years later my brother was diagnosed aged 13. Perhaps it's recessive?
 
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