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Type 1's live till their about 80?

LionChild

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I read today a comment on line that said that Type 1 Diabetics generally live to about the age 80. I do not know what the source for this information is or whether such a comment can be authenticated? Anyone have any more insight into this? If it's true, I ain't got much longer to go!?
 
They used to say that someone with diabetes life would be cut short by 10 years , that was decades ago and now with such good technology to look after us I don't think we need to think our life expectancy will be any different than a non diabetic .
 
You have to compare it to the average of those without T1 to really say anything
Averages are averages not absolutes - you may live til you're 100, and if someone else dies at 60 that's an average of 80.
 
Rokaab said:
You have to compare it to the average of those without T1 to really say anything
Averages are averages not absolutes - you may live til you're 100, and if someone else dies at 60 that's an average of 80.
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Very true!
 
Don’t know how long I’m going to live I don’t think about it I certainly don’t worry that because I’m diabetic I’m going to pop my clogs at whatever age , all I know is I’m going to cram as much in , in the time I have left whatever that is. I would have same opinion whether I was diabetic or not
 
I think one of the positives for me anyway is that having diabetes teaches you that you have to look after yourself watch what I eat exercise etc, so in that respect I may live longer .
 
It’s a tricky subject.

Life is a lottery.

Just don’t check your CGM when crossing the road?

I’m more concerned with cognitive decline that may come with advanced years.
Which my complicate things further..
 
jaywak said:
I think one of the positives for me anyway is that having diabetes teaches you that you have to look after yourself watch what I eat exercise etc, so in that respect I may live longer .
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One of my old bosses said to me "You will probably outlive us all because you're constantly under the spotlight." I have ignored predictions for most of my life. I have at least outlived that boss!
 
Grant_Vicat said:
One of my old bosses said to me "You will probably outlive us all because you're constantly under the spotlight." I have ignored predictions for most of my life. I have at least outlived that boss!
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Oddly, my mum was told some “things” on my diagnosis in the mid 1970s.
We let a room out to a student nurse a couple of years later & I broke into her room whilst she was out “clubbing” to peruse her medical books.
What I saw after working through the aphabet of conditions in the D entry wasn’t “mostly harmless.” Like the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy on Earth I was also reading at the time..

lol, the student nurse would quite often get home drunk & discuss “life the universe & everything” with a 10 year old after a binge.
Or realy lonely & down in which the noise woke my mum to play surrogate mother whilst this young woman bawled in the bathroom.?

My dad wisely. Kept out of it..

My mum always seemed shocked at my seemingly cavalier attitude to the topic of human demise..
 
jaywak said:
I think one of the positives for me anyway is that having diabetes teaches you that you have to look after yourself watch what I eat exercise etc, so in that respect I may live longer .
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That is exactly my feeling. Not sure I would be as healthy as I am now as I approach pensionable age.
 
I have just found this from February 2023 @lovinglife https://www.diabetes.co.uk/news/2023/feb/living-with-type-1-diabetes-since-1942-have-a-balance.html She really is an inspiration!
 
lovinglife said:
Just shows most answers to questions are never far from your door
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I was amazed to find it, but when I saw the photo I remembered the post.
 
The average life expectancy of people without diabetes is also about 80 years, so in this regard, we are like all other people.
But personally, the thought of having to live for another 50 years terrifies me.
 
There was a time when it was considered a good innings for anyone to live to 80.

For me, I am just as worried about what quality of life I'll have when I'm older than the actual age I will live to.

My last few eye screening letters say I have maculopathy. I also think my gums are becoming damaged due to abnormal blood sugar.

I am turning 35 shortly but I dread to think what state my body will be in by 45 or 50.
 
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