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In honor of National Siblings Day, if you have T1D, do you have any siblings with T1D? Share more about your experiences as siblings with T1D in the comments!
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My brother died in October last year. He was 3 years younger and developed T1D same age as me, at age 15. Some kind of respiratory failure. Covid maybe? I wonder. His girlfriend refused his intubation. why was I not contacted? This was a shock to me and explains my absence from this forum. And then I broke my ankle.
I am really sorry about your brother and welcome back!
So sorry!
Sorry
My condolences.
We are all saddened by the death of your brother. Contending with the inscrutability of other people involved often seems unreasonable and unimaginable. Good luck.
My brother, who is 10 years my elder. Oddly, we were both diagnosed in our mid-twenties.
I have five siblings, about 20 first cousins and scores of second cousins (children of first cousins). One of the second cousins has T1, that’s it. Also zero for grandparents, aunts & uncles. Same for T2 afaik, though my sister has been dx’d pre-d.
There used to be a thread on the old TUDiabetes forum, “Are you the (lucky) one?” for people with zero T1s in their family. There were a lot of us! I was always told, from dx on, not to be surprised b/c it doesn’t typically run in families, though more recently it’s apparent to me that in some cases it does. Not in mine though.
No siblings
My siblings have type 2
I have two siblings but neither have T1D.
My brother’s T1 manifested after he had emergency gallbladder surgery in his 20s. Mine emerged when I was 7, one month after my mother died. I wonder how many people’s T1 emerges after a traumatic experience. I’ve heard it’s a thing.
My older brother has T2.
Also, when I was in high school, my biology teacher asked me how many siblings I had and how many of them were diabetic. (This was in the late 70s.) She told me she had three sibling and they were all diabetic but she was spared. She was surprised there weren’t more of us. At the time, I was the only one but because she told me it runs in families, I was aware that some of my siblings would become diabetic.
T1D is clearly in my family- Father, Aunt, Uncle, Cousin, Sister, and Son. Interestingly, neither of my grand parents.
I have tow out of three younger siblings with T1D. My eldest of three sons has T1D and his eldest daughter has T1D. It sort of runs in our family.
I have one brother but he doesn’t have diabetes.
I had an older sister who was diabetic, but I never knew if she was a T1D LADA or an extremely insulin resistant Type 2. I was diagnosed T1D at the age of 12. She was already married and living in another city by then (at the age of 16). Years later she developed Graves disease and years after that I found out she had been diagnosed as a diabetic. She never did what the doctors told her. She ate as she pleased, didn’t always take her insulin on time or at all, and so her health got worse and worse. By the time I knew much about her health, she was taking probably 3 times the amount of insulin as I was. I could go on. Long story short, she died in 2020 at the young age of 69. Between heart bypass surgery, multiple strokes, and gastroparesis, I’m not sure what her cause of death was. My uninformed diagnosis was too many years of smoking and uncontrolled diabetes cascaded her health downward into a condition she couldn’t survive. Sad story.
I’ve a brother diagnosed T1d a few months before our older sister died of breast cancer, I was “erroneously” diagnosed TYPE2 a week after her passing (May will be 25 years). Three years later our younger sister died of leukemia, a few weeks later at those medical trials my diagnosis was changed to T1d. Through my brother’s life with alcohol and all that goes with it we lost touch but with his sobriety we remaining brothers and he are probably closer than Iegally allowed (sarcasm). My brother and myself mostly make fun of our diabetes, even the roughest times but off and on support each other. Ironically a cousin adopted into the family was diagnosed only 15 years ago and we found ways to bond: her care is abhorrent but tough for her to change her lifestyle and habits (neuropathy, gastroparesis, COPD…). No idea of other family.
No siblings with T1, just two grandkids 🙁
None of my 5 siblings have it, all older than I in their 70’s, and no other family. I was diagnosed at age 61 8 years ago.
I am the only one in my family with T1D. Both my older brother (34) and little brother (28) do not have it. I was diagnosed when I was 3 and I remain the only one with it. Some days it would be nice to have someone/ family member to talk to about it but then again, I wouldn’t wish this disease on my worst enemy.
My parents had 2 children. My brother got type 1 at age 10. I was 9 at the time. Fast forward 57 years: My brother had died a few years before and I was diagnosed with LADA at age 66. There is no other blood relative with type 1 or type 2. How I wish my brother was here to coach me. I don’t know anyone with type 1, which is why I read this site so religiously.
Yes, my younger brother, by 2 years, was diagnosed at the age of 6.
He passed away at the age of 43 due to other reasons but his T1D definitely put a hardship on him.
I’m so sorry that you lost him.
I have 2 younger brothers, one 2 years younger and the other 8 years younger than me. The one 2 years younger than me was diagnosed at 7 months old, I was diagnosed at 11 years old. We still are the first one we ask about T1D things, especially have you ever….
We used to come up with some pretty good pranks to play on our endo. team. 😂
My beloved brother passed away from an acute t1d complication
Mom with TD1
Son with TD1
Daughter with TD1
No living relatives with T1D. I had to go to a children’s camp to meet other kids like me.
My younger brother was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes and put on pills. After several years he was put on Lantus nightly. After a few more years he was put on Humalog injections before meals. He has never been told he is Type 1.
I have T1D. I have a sibling who does not have T1D.
I’m the only one with T1D in my entire family.
I do have 1 sibling a younger brother with type 2. I also have a sister with pancreatic cancer and she maintains with diet like type 2.
I like all the NO’s!!!
I do have a T1D daughter
No type 1 but my sister has 3 different autoimmune diseases and my brother has 1 different one also.
My sister with T1D and a nephew with T1D and a niece with celiac.
I have no siblings