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Permalink Reply by jeremiah_81 on June 10, 2011 at 2:01pm

i believe it is mother nature's stress to constantly push for survival and change and evolve evolve and always evolve but in this process just as you have successes you also have failures for every einstein there is a baby born with an equal opposite malady..for every sports phenomn you have a baby born in a vegetative state...

now obviously enviornmental factors take part but isnt this also mother natures reaction to situation i.e. babies getting more cancer around powerlines, or polluted well water from and energy or sewage company.. these things alter the orignal intention of mother nature and the wildlife around it but out of it comes tolerance to those chemicals and new and different life is formed that are variations of the previously affected thing.

but through it all the group(people,fish, toads, plants, trees etc etc) somehow survives changed in what ever form but survival is what is always the key, and sometimes you can't make an omlette without breaking a few eggs, we just happen to be one of the eggs that broke luckily dr. banting discovered how to remove insulin from a dog's pancreas and inject it into us so we may survive but for only a little bit longer in the perception of time..

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Permalink Reply by kellyone on June 10, 2011 at 6:22pm

I think it is a combination of some hieretary factors (predisposition) and having some bad virus or major stress issue that sets it off. So in my case having a father with diabetes and being a really sickly child before my diagnosis. I became healthier after diagnosis for some reason.

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Permalink Reply by Elizabeth on June 10, 2011 at 7:47pm

Combination of genetic predisposition and environmental stressors on the immune system that futz up its ability to tell what it's supposed to be attacking -- I think it is a cumulative effect of chemical endocrine disruptors, personally. All the damn plastics and the crap that's in the groundwater. I was working in Sudbury MA in 2006/7 when pregnant with my son -- the one who was Dx'd with T1D at 17 months of age(!!) -- and that little community happens to be downstream from Woburn, MA, home of the superfund site described in A Civil Action. Is it a coincidence that there was a rash of T1D diagnoses among children in Sudbury and surrounding communities between 2003-2009, the same time that I was pregnant with Eric? Is it coincidence that my thyroid crapped out during the same period? And that Eric developed T1D at an usually young age? Well, sure, it very well could be a coincidence. I don't happen to think it is, but I have no evidence to show that it's not. But that's my hypothesis, anyway -- that exposure to whatever the hell is floating downstream from Woburn triggered my familial tendency toward autoimmune disease while I was preggers. It expressed itself in me as hypothyroidism, and affected Eric as T1D. That's my humble opinion, anyway.

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Permalink Reply by mistressbinky on September 11, 2011 at 10:16am

They're are so many speculations. Here's a crazy one, a girls said it was the chicken pox vaccine and that's why her daughter's not vaccinated.
"If true, why are my classmates and siblings free of diabetes?"
"They received a different dose."
This is the most craziness statement I've heard.

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Permalink Reply by Tammy on September 11, 2011 at 11:15pm

Hi All!

I'm new to TuDiabetes and this is my first post in a forum. :-)

I've been a Type 1 Diabetic for 24 years. Diabetes does not run in my family, was NOT obese has a child, and would take a whole squadron of Marines to come get me to come inside from playing (in other words...I was an active child). ;-) My theory and search for a reason for being a diabetic, is...I came down with the chicken box 5 months prior to getting sick with diabetes. I had a minor case of the chicken pox externally; but I feel internally the virus attacked the pancreas. This is the only explanation I can come up with.

Oh...I sure as hell try my hardest not to smack those folks upside the head with those stereotype theories about Type 1's. I also feel the media makes things worse when it comes to those stereotypes of Type 1's.

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Permalink Reply by Tim on September 12, 2011 at 5:54am

I was diagnosed with Type 1 at the age of 40. Logically, I know there's no link, but when I'm feeling especailly paranoid, I think what triggered it was the H1N1 vaccine I received about a month before I was hospitalized. I know there have been studies disproving that vaccines have any effect on getting Type 1, and I have an aunt and nephew, both Type 1, but it's still something that nags at me from time to time.

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Permalink Reply by Lauren on September 12, 2011 at 6:59pm

I developed type one right after going into remission from Acute Lymphoblsatic Leukemia (ALL). The treatment for my ALL include chemotherapy and total body irradiation. I have always attributed my pancreas failing to these treatments...

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Permalink Reply by Baby Tee on September 12, 2011 at 10:07pm

My dad's crazy mother (she literally becaem crazy) first said I was type 1 because we had a cat (1984). About 6 to 9 months later it was because we had a microwave. Why do I have no siblings with Type 1? Someone from church told me it was because I was eatign too much sugar. My brothers ate way more than I did.

No diabetes anywhere in my family, but if you go along my family tree, you can find plenty of autoimmune diseases RA, PBC, AFAP, and severe allergies (some people conisder severe allergies to be autoimmune). I recently read that lack of vitamin D levels are common in people with autoimmune diseases. I asked my dr to check and it was at 13. I guess 50 to 100 is normal, but the docs worry if you drop below 30. I wonder if spending too much time inside and the shade has kept us from getting enough vitamin D. As time goes along, we spend more and more time in our cars and buildings. Sun through car windows doesn't count for vit D absorbtion.

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