What other auto immune illnesses do you have apart from type 1 ?

[Spiker]

Hey everyone! Do you think that these other illnesses have been triggered by the diabetes?? Maybe a result of poor management?? I worry about complications in the future as my control isn't great just yet, mostly my own doing!

I don't think anyone knows why autoimmune diseases tend to cluster in some individuals. And this thread is VERY speculative and purely anecdotal. But I would think that when people get multiple autoimmune problems, there is a common cause contributing to all of them, rather than one (eg diabetes) causing the others.

 

[Smitten73]

Well, my father has Peyronies Disease, Lupus, Arthritis and Type Two Diabetes. His uncle had lupus (they both lost ALL bodily hair over the space of a week or two) ... these conditions (especially the peyronies) missed me and my 3 sisters but now my son ( not my daughter ) has recently been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. My daughter does have Aspergers though, but that's unrelated. So, in my family, these auto immune disorders seem to go down my fathers side and have only affected the males.

 

[kyrani99]

But I would think that when people get multiple autoimmune problems, there is a common cause contributing to all of them

VERY speculative and purely anecdotal...
I have found that the one common cause when it comes to autoimmune disease is ideas.. beliefs! And I found they can be identified and discarded and when discarded can get well again.

 

[serendipity]

Hypothyroidism
Raynaud's phenomenon
Asthma and Excema
Pernicious Anemia
Dont think any of my other Conditions are Auto immune