curious about dx after 50
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Permalink Reply by Jen on
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I wonder if people diagnosed as Type 1 at older ages (let's say 18+) have different genes involved than those who are diagnosed at younger ages (under 18). I see a lot of people with multiple Type 1s in the same family where everyone was diagnosed as a kid or teenager, and others where everyone was diagnosed as an adult. Maybe that might explain the differences in insulin production, etc. as well.
I was diagnosed at age 9 and have absolutely no diabetes (Type 1 or Type 2) anywhere in my immediate or extended family.
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Permalink Reply by Judith on -
T2 at 57---Wrack and Ruin, Despair and Rage......But I'm better now. At almost 63---"Everyday is a new day, Tralala"!......Oh--my dad was T2.....
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Permalink Reply by Gerri on -
Diagnosed T1 at 53. No diabetes in my family, except for a great great aunt who was T2 in her senior years. She controlled it with diet & lived to a healthy old age.
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Permalink Reply by Aimee on
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Dx T1 at 50. Family history: aunts and uncles. MDI for now, on the fence about a pump.
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Permalink Reply by BadMoonT2 on -
Diagnosed T2 at 59 but I now know I had it for quite some time before. T2 on my maternal side.
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Permalink Reply by suezq1949 on -
I was diagnosed T1 at the age of 59; coming up on my third anniversary in January. I had one T1 uncle.
Sue
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Permalink Reply by Muragaki on
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Darn interesting question, what with two T1 kids. Surely someone on this board -- whose kids were dx'd T1 -- was dx'd LADA?
My family didn't have a speck of T1 history, but it's riddled with T2s. My T1 dx came six weeks after turning 49 and slightly more than two years after dx as T2; I was actually relieved because I finally had an explanation for why the diet and exercise changes I'd adopted as a T2 just weren't making a difference. As for where it came from my school of thought runs toward the viral connection, having had facial shingles at 29 (ouch...)
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Permalink Reply by Judith on
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Ouch indeed, Muragaki. I also have questions about the complexities---so I had a genetic risk, but I have come to believe there are "tipping points" involving trauma and/or inflammation and/or maybe the alignments of the planets!......
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Judith, do you remember the kinectic toy that was five steel balls suspended from a wooden frame? If you pulled back one, two or three then let them go, they would strike the remaining suspended balls and create an opposite reaction of either one, two or three at the other end.
That's how MY planets have aligned...
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Permalink Reply by wickhamster on -
So does this come down to 'what caused it?
Meeting with a new doctor here, told him I have type 2 (diagnosed years ago) and added that I have haemachromatosis (iron overload) and this possibly caused it ...
To my surprise he said, 'now that changes everything. that completely changes my attitude to you.' So if it was my fault (caused by obesity perhaps) ... what was he going to do? But as this wasn't really my fault, maybe even caused my obesity ... well that's different, he was willing to be nice to me.
Heamachromatosis, in theory, affects 1 in 300 of 'northern European' genetic extraction. As a fair-skinned caucasian, that puts me in the box.
When I was in the UK I went to a clinic to check my ferretin levels, and they were so excited to see me, and couldn't believe that (in Australia) I had already been tested and was aware of my condition. They said they are expecting to find a lot of people with the condition, but unaware of it, and displaying in in ways such as diabetes which it can cause. They go to diabetes clinics to find people with it - but it hasn't been turning out as they expected.Anyway, the point is, people over 50 with haemachromatosis tend to have quite a build up of iron (especially women past menopause), and this can initiate diabetes ... apparently.
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Permalink Reply by Judith on
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"down to what caused it"?.....Well I have come to believe it is much too complex for such simplistic questions.Diabetes is likely to cause obesity, for instance--chicken and egg.
Rather it is an interesting discussion of possible contributing factors, about which I am convinced we all here provide a much more complete picture than overly simple studies and one-size-fits-all dx.....
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