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- 6 months ago
  
  Lawrence S. likes your comment at
  Do you currently have a low treatment close enough to your bed that you do not have to get out of bed at night when treating a low?
  Containers with granulated sugar (from sugar beets) and water are always nearby.
- 9 months ago
  
  Katrina Mundinger likes your comment at
  Have you read a diabetes-related book that you found particularly helpful? If so, share your recommendations in the comments!
  I read current diabetes books and articles, most of which are helpful. But the conditions of lack of access to means of continuous monitoring and insulin pumps in Ukraine leave the received news and knowledge in vain.
- 1 year ago
  
  Bill Marston likes your comment at
  Do you currently have an unexpired glucagon kit? If so, what kind? If you have more than one unexpired glucagon kit, please select all that apply.
  Never used glucagon in 33 years of T1DM. In Ukraine, glucagon for people with T1DM has always been too expensive. In case of hypoglycemia, we either manage to take granulated sugar, or paramedics find us (like you) on the street and inject glucose into a vein (if you are lucky and there are no injuries, for example, broken ribs).
- 1 year ago
  
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  Do you currently have an unexpired glucagon kit? If so, what kind? If you have more than one unexpired glucagon kit, please select all that apply.
  Never used glucagon in 33 years of T1DM. In Ukraine, glucagon for people with T1DM has always been too expensive. In case of hypoglycemia, we either manage to take granulated sugar, or paramedics find us (like you) on the street and inject glucose into a vein (if you are lucky and there are no injuries, for example, broken ribs).
- 1 year, 5 months ago
  
  Ms Cris has commented in the same post you commented in :
  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.
  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.
- 1 year, 5 months ago
  
  T1D4LongTime has commented in the same post you commented in :
  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.
  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.
- 1 year, 5 months ago
  
  M C has commented in the same post you commented in :
  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.
  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).
- 1 year, 5 months ago
  
  Michael Andrews has commented in the same post you commented in :
  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.
  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.
- 1 year, 5 months ago
  
  qachemist has commented in the same post you commented in :
  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.
  I am the one with LADA (treated as Type 1), diagnosed at age 65. My cousin (aunt's daughter) has Type 1.
- 1 year, 5 months ago
  
  Mick Martin has commented in the same post you commented in :
  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.
  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.
- 1 year, 5 months ago
  
  Lynn Smith has commented in the same post you commented in :
  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.
  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 don’t 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.
- 1 year, 5 months ago
  
  Dennis Dacey has commented in the same post you commented in :
  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.
  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.
- 1 year, 5 months ago
  
  Molly Jones has commented in the same post you commented in :
  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.
  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.
- 1 year, 5 months ago
  
  ConnieT1D62 has commented in the same post you commented in :
  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.
  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.
- 1 year, 5 months ago
  
  Diana L. has commented in the same post you commented in :
  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.
  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.
- 1 year, 5 months ago
  
  Janis Senungetuk has commented in the same post you commented in :
  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.
  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.
- 1 year, 5 months ago
  
  lis be has commented in the same post you commented in :
  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.
  I have type 1, sibling has pre -diabetes
- 1 year, 5 months ago
  
  Pauline M Reynolds has commented in the same post you commented in :
  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.
  I forgot that niece and her daughter had gestational diabetes.
- 1 year, 5 months ago
  
  Pauline M Reynolds has commented in the same post you commented in :
  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.
  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.
- 1 year, 5 months ago
  
  Chrisanda has commented in the same post you commented in :
  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.
  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.
- 1 year, 5 months ago
  
  Mig Vascos has commented in the same post you commented in :
  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.
  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.
- 1 year, 5 months ago
  
  Donald Cragun has commented in the same post you commented in :
  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.
  My grandfather on my mother's side of the family was diagnosed with type 2 five years after I was diagnosed with type 1.
- 1 year, 5 months ago
- 1 year, 5 months ago
  
  Katrina Mundinger has commented in the same post you commented in :
  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.
  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.
- 1 year, 5 months ago
  
  Bob Durstenfeld has commented in the same post you commented in :
  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.
  My dad, two of my brothers and me, my eldest son and his eldest daughter all have monogenic diabetes.
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