The doctors think it is the fact that I NEVER got sick that triggered it. My immune system pretty much became a superhero and accidently attacked my insulin producing cells because it was so strong... According to the doctors, of course haha
I personally think that I got it because I was meant to get it amid the circumstances of the time :)
I was diagnosed before my hpv shot, but after a virus and taking the drug X. Of course when I took exctasy it was still legal and from a pharmacy. After years of study and being diabetic I am going to go on the virus path. Why do you have to have something to blame it on? I did that for years, asking why me, blah blah ignoring keeping everything under control because it wasn't my fault. Well now after a Kidney/Pancreas transplant I'm not blaming anything. I am simply happy to be alive. Just try that for awhile-:+)
Since I am the only one in my family to have any type of diabetes, 1 or 2, I think it might have something to do with a horrible virus I could not get over just before diagnosis. I've also heard that really big babies, left handed people and starting on cow's milk to early could be to blame. And well I was 10.1 when I was born, I'm a lefty and I started cow's milk pretty early cause I couldn't hold anything down. I don't really know if they correlate or are just coincidence?
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Since I am the only one in my family to have any type of diabetes, 1 or 2, I think it might have something to do with a horrible virus I could not get over just before diagnosis. I've also heard that really big babies, left handed people and starting on cow's milk to early could be to blame. And well I was 10.1 when I was born, I'm a lefty and I started cow's milk pretty early cause I couldn't hold anything down. I don't really know if they correlate or are just coincidence?
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Hey...I'm a lefty...but my sister is a righty. It probably has something to do with one's astrological sign. Or maybe people whose parents didn't hug them enough when they were kids!?
I kid. I see no point in blaming something or someone for what we have. I mean it's always nice when we have a scapegoat...human nature I suppose to think that something isn't our fault and has a cause. Logic is nice like that..." I have X because of Y." I don't think diabetes (type 1 at least) works that way.
My sister got it when she was five, was perfectly healthy, had no viruses or anything. 12 years later, I got it. Same deal, no illnesses or any of that. No one else in our family has it...didn't skip a generation or any of that stuff.
Hopefully my sarcasm offended more people than normal, I just don't think it makes sense to blame something/someone for diabetes. Does it suck? Yeah. Is blaming someone or thinking that because you were born on the second day or the second month at the second hour going to make it go away? Nope. If it helps you sleep at night, good for you, I wish I could make myself believe stuff like that, but the reality is that we are stuck with this whether there is a 'blame,' cause, or diabetes big bang.
/my two cents
I went into labor 6 weeks early with Brandan. I was medicated for 2 weeks to postpone labor. When my water broke, there was infection in the fluid. Maybe if he wasn't forced to stay in there 2 more weeks he wouldn't have been sick when he was born and wouldn't have gotten T1D.......
Maybe if I didn't go on vacation when I was 7 months pregnant.......
Maybe if I didn't give him whole milk before he turned 12 months old......
Maybe if he had never gotten that bad cold when was 9 months old.....
Maybe it is my fault. Maybe it's my doctor's fault. Maybe it's nobody's fault. Maybe.
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I went into labor 6 weeks early with Brandan. I was medicated for 2 weeks to postpone labor. When my water broke, there was infection in the fluid. Maybe if he wasn't forced to stay in there 2 more weeks he wouldn't have been sick when he was born and wouldn't have gotten T1D.......
Maybe if I didn't go on vacation when I was 7 months pregnant.......
Maybe if I didn't give him whole milk before he turned 12 months old......
Maybe if he had never gotten that bad cold when was 9 months old.....
Maybe it is my fault. Maybe it's my doctor's fault. Maybe it's nobody's fault. Maybe.
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Maybe if I didn't inhale...
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I went into labor 6 weeks early with Brandan. I was medicated for 2 weeks to postpone labor. When my water broke, there was infection in the fluid. Maybe if he wasn't forced to stay in there 2 more weeks he wouldn't have been sick when he was born and wouldn't have gotten T1D.......
Maybe if I didn't go on vacation when I was 7 months pregnant.......
Maybe if I didn't give him whole milk before he turned 12 months old......
Maybe if he had never gotten that bad cold when was 9 months old.....
Maybe it is my fault. Maybe it's my doctor's fault. Maybe it's nobody's fault. Maybe.
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Maybe if I didn't inhale...
[/quote]Pat is feisty today! Wait, Pat is feisty every day...
I was diagnosed at age 19, when I was 6months pregant, with Gestational Diabetes. At 8 months I started insulin injections. I delivered an 8lb 9oz BEAUTIFUL BABY GIRL 2 weeks early and was diagnosed with Type 1 6 weeks later...My endo says my pregnancy killed my pancrease!!