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How many people in your immediate family — your parents, siblings, or spouse — live with type one diabetes?
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I am the only one with T1D, but 75% of my immediate family have autoimmune issues.
My reply is the same as yours, Molly.
My younger brother and I have type 1. I was diagnosed at 8 and was 5. I do have several 2nd cousins from my mom side who do also.
Myself and my oldest daughter. I was 18 when diagnosed. She was 23 when diagnosed.
Step dad passed away from Type 2 Dietetic
I am adopted and have always told doctors, etc. that when asked if anyone in my family has type 1. Now I have 2 children and neither have it. I just found out that the daughter of my birth father (biological 1/2 sister) has had type 1 since she was 6 yrs old.
Honestly anyone living with you , you’re the only one, lives with diabetes. Kinda vague on the “living” term.
My older half brother and I both have type 1. He was diagnosed at 12 and I was at 8.
Myself, a parent and my fiancé
My dad was the first, then me, then two of my younger siblings, then my eldest son, then his eldest daughter. All of us were diagnosed under age 2.
Two cousins on my Mothers side have T1 since their before and after their teenage years. A few more developed T2 on the same side of the family. I was the first diabetes T1 diagnosed 53 years ago in my family. None of my children or Grandchildren so far have fortunately escaped the condition. I preach the gospel that there are a lot worse conditions out there that some people are unfortunately been discovered with? Diabetes is a very manageable condition to get. I am trying to prove that in a very positive and visible way.
I selected “I am the only one in my family who lives with T1D”, which is true, but I did have a younger brother, also T1D, that died a couple of years ago.
Other members of my extended family, two cousins, also have T1D, and 2 of my siblings have T2D.
To be clear. My sister and I both have LADA. I put 2, counting myself.
My father is the only other person in my family with type one diabetes and we were both diagnosed right around the same age. We were both in our early 20s but when he was diagnosed in the early 1960’s, he was misdiagnosed as type two because of his age. Fortunately, when I was diagnosed in 1993, I was diagnosed correctly immediately, perhaps because of my father.
I am the only one with Type I, but Type 2 has had its way with us. My husband, and four out of five children have/had Type 2!
Pretty sure this one has been asked before
Live or lived? My older brother was T1D and died 13 years ago at age 67. I’m 77 and 4.5 years younger than he was, but I became T1D 17 years later than he did at age 23. I was 40.
I chose I am the only one living with T1D but my dad had T1D for 40 years before a heart attack ended his journey. We had 15 years together as moral support which I greatly miss.
My niece and I. I was diagnosed 1 year before my niece was diagnosed.
My younger sister⁷
I’m the only T1D in my immediate family.
I answered 1 because my spouse was T1D, however she died of cancer 3 years ago, so now no one in my immediate family is T1D.
I wish I could have answered “Other,” but chose 1 other person. One of my parents has LADA and was diagnosed after I have had lived with T1D for over 20 years.