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Diabetes mellitus includes several types beyond type 1: there's type 2 diabetes mellitus, gestational diabetes mellitus, latent-autoimmune - and even more! Has anyone in your family been diagnosed with a type of diabetes mellitus other than type 1? Please select all that apply.
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Another option is needed: “NO, no one else in my family has ANY type of diabetes.” This applies to me.
This leads me to believe it may have been and environmental element that triggered my T1d.
I agree with an environmental element. My niece is the only family member (gestational) and I am concerned she will be Type 1 or 2 in the next few years.
Technically guess I’d be LADA, but as the definition goes I’m a TYPE1. The only difference is the slow destruction of BETA cells, the slow decrease in insulin production (honeymoon), like 3 years. A brother was tested for antibodies (negative), with metformin and dietary adjustments his a1C is in the 4 or 5 range (TYPE 2). My maternal grandmother was diabetic, that’s all I know (in the 50’s and 60’s TYPE2 wasn’t as prevalent as now, and I remember she was extremely thin, probably TYPE1?). My paternal grandmother was the perfect TYPE 2: several laps, short and extremely heavy, loved her sweets, and diagnosed in her 60’s. Another younger brother is TYPE1, never tested for antibodies but odds are a “general” TYPE1. However I also have a cousin TYPE1 but she was adopted, although 700 miles apart that made us closer.
No, no one in my family has experienced any other forms of diabetes mellitus aside from type 1…AND I AM THE ONLY ONE!
Yes – No body in my family both maternal-side or paternal-side had/has any form of diabetes. I am the first and only.
Latent-autoimmune – is Type 1.
I am the only one in my family that has any type of diabetes.
No. I am the sole winner and champeen after 71 years and 50 cousins, siblings, parents, grand parents, aunts, uncles, et al.
No TKO’s, no knock outs, and still standing.
It’s just me … and a first cousin, and her son, a second cousin. I am the only one now.
Deceased members of family
Grandmother type 2
Mother type 1
Sister type 2
2nd sister gestational
Daughter gestational
Uncle type 2
I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes four years before diagnosed with Type 1. š¤
no one in my family has any type of d. since I was a grownup at diagnosis, my siblings never were tested.
Iāve noticed that most of us are either (a) one and only in our families (my case) or (b) multiple cases of T1D in multiple generations. So to answer this question, aside from me, NO ONE has had ANY experience with diabetes, T1D or otherwise.
My dad was diagnosed with T2 diabetes. In hindsight, based on my own experience as an adult diagnosed later in life with T1, I do wonder whether he was also LADA.
I answered Not Sure as there was no option for No One in my family has either been diagnosed before Or after my T1D diagnosis over 50 years ago. I was diagnosed shortly after having mononucleosis.
Several other Type 1ās including Grandmother, Granduncles; uncle
I answered “Not sure” because my father was diagnosed with diabetes in his early 60’s back in 1953. I do not believe a distinction between diabetes Types was made back then. He injected himself each morning with U40 Protomine Zinc insulin and lived for another 20 years after his diagnosis. Three years after his death, I was diagnosed as a Type 1 while in my late 20’s. Dad might have been either a Type 1 or a Type 2.
In my family, in addition to my father (T1D since 1964), two of his children got this disease (T1D) (in 1984 and 1990). Since 1990 – this is me.
My adult daughter was just on the borderline of Type 2 but was successfully able to reverse it with diet, which she has maintained. As her parents we are extremely proud of her.
I have a maternal aunt that had gestational diabetes and my dad was recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.
One of my nieces has had gestational diabetes.
No one in my family has any type of T1D, I however, have LADA. Next week is my 9 th diaversary, then in February I turn 65. I am grateful for the DOC and all that is available for us these days. Love my Dex and InPen!
My dad, two of my brothers and me, my eldest son and his eldest daughter all have monogenic diabetes.
The only other person in my family who’s even had Type 1 was my paternal grandmother’s brother. However, on my mom’s side, there is a definite history of autoimmune disease: her father had alopecia and she has rheumatoid arthritis.
My grandfather on my mother’s side of the family was diagnosed with type 2 five years after I was diagnosed with type 1.
i first had gestational diabetes during both of my pregnancies. By the time I was 30, I was erroneously diagnosed at a T2. 3 years later I was finally diagnosed as a T1. Most likely I had LADA, but at the time that knowledge didn’t exist.
My older sister went through the same process. No one else in my parents’ generation, our children, or grandchildren have had this problem. My sister passed by age 56 because of diabetes complications. I, instead, already turned 83 and have very minimal damage. I’ve always follow a diet and have always exercise.
Some in the new generations have T2 because of excessive weight and inactivity, so it could have been avoided by having a preventive lifestyle. The type of life we choose determines the outcome of this problem. It’s not easy but doable and rewarding.
I am the only one in my family with any type of diabetes. I have LADA, diagnosed when I was 40. No history of any type in the family as far back as we can know. So far, none in the next generation either.
You sound like me. 42 when T1 developed, no one with any form of diabetes before me. so far my kids and niece/nephews have not developed either.
You hit the jackpot with me!! I have LADA. Two daughters and a son have Type 2. Many aunts and uncles on my mother’s side have/had Type 2. My nephew and an uncle have/had Type 1.
I forgot that niece and her daughter had gestational diabetes.
I have type 1, sibling has pre -diabetes
I’m going to guess that my maternal grandfather was LADA. He was dx in his 30’s with diabetes and started daily insulin injections as soon as insulin was available in the Midwest. Type of diabetes was not determined then. My father was dx with Type 2 in his 50’s and took one of the first oral medications until his death at 60 from congestive heart disease.
I developed surgical diabetes after a distal pancreatectomy for a neuroendocrine tumor that removed 80% of my pancreas.
This category of Type one does not appear anywhere as an option.
My father and his younger sister were dx’d with LADA in their late 30s early 40s. A fist cousin on maternal side was dx’d with LADA in her mid 20s.
I was dx’d with T1D in late December 1962 at age 8, at which time no known diagnosis of diabetes was on either side of the family.
No one has diabetes besides my one sibling who has type 2.
I worry for him as he does not understand it at all and is not interested in taking meds, eating properly, or educating himself even though I mention the consequences of hyperglycemia. I suppose it’s his choice, body and happiness for now.
Two of my brothers were diagnosed with environmental/chemical diabetes – Classification #3 in the ADA Professional guide. Both were called TypeOne and managed diabetes in much the manner I’ve used for over six decades.
My younger brother had “Agent Orange Diabetes” which also affected 76% of the men he commanded Vietnam affecting him about 12 years later in his military career; he survived another 15 years. My older brother’s diabetes was brought on by radiation and chemo, managing multiple melanoma, at about age 78.
I really never knew what type of diabetes my older sister had. I was diagnosed at age 12 after having a bad case of the mumps over a year prior to my diagnosis. My sister was diagnosed as an adult, but I donāt know exactly when. I think she just tried ignoring it for awhile so she may have had it longer than I knew. The thing I remember most is that she was extremely insulin resistant, so that makes me think of type 2. The last I knew she was taking maybe 3 times as much insulin as I do. Just a mystery I will never know the answer to since she passed away in 2020.
As well as selecting the two options “Yes, someone in my immediate family (my parent, sibling or child) has type 2 diabetes” and “Yes, someone in my extended family (a grandparent, aunt, uncle, or cousin) has type 2 diabetes”, my wife developed gestational diabetes when she was carrying our second son.
I am the one with LADA (treated as Type 1), diagnosed at age 65. My cousin (aunt’s daughter) has Type 1.
I have Type 1. I was diagnosed 6 years ago, at age 38, after all the standard complications, although I wasn’t aware that they were standard at the time. My wife and I were brand new parents, and I thought all my issues were related to exhaustion and just part of the new parent experience. The weight loss – I lost 35 lbs in 3 months – is what finally made me think something was wrong. Since then, we’ve had 4 more (2 sets of twins), so we now have 5 kids under 7, and my issues definitely weren’t a side effect of parenthood. I am still exhausted, but at least I have energy.
I had an Aunt (Mom’s sister) who was either pre-diabetic (T2) or T2. She had what we understand was Diabetes related dementia issues near the end of her life – so that was hard.
I also learned recently that a 2nd cousin, once removed, who is 6, was diagnosed with T1D a year ago. I don’t know how significant this is, but I’ve heard that any family “history” of T1D, no matter how remote, is potentially part of the pre-disposed genetics.
After 2 years of cancer treatment, and then within 5 weeks of losing my Mom, the love of my Dad’s life, after 60+ years of marriage, my Dad was tested positive for Type 1 diabetes (during the typical cancer screening blood tests done once a month). He’d never had abnormal BG numbers prior to this. So, after the age of 80, having never been diabetic (not Type 2 nor 1), he suddenly found himself requiring daily insulin and all the frustrations that go with this condition (particularly facing it for the first time in one’s 80’s).
I also marked “Not Sure”. My paternal grandmother had Type 2 (so my father said). After my diagnosis at age 6, Mom said she had Type 1 (possibly gestational). My father said many years after Grandma died that she was diagnosed in mid-50s. However, she took insulin injections, so I’m really unsure.