Why am I type 1 with no genetic history?!


Question: Why am I type 1 with no genetic history!?
Hi there I was diagnosed last month with type 1 diabeties I'm 27 and have always had a good healthy diet, had gestational diabetes when pregnant but it went away, and was told i could have an increased risk of type2 when i was older!. but only had my son 10 months ago and started getting symptoms last month went to gp and had my bgs done on metre and were 24!.5mmol after had blood tests at hospital and confirmed I was type 1 lost over a stone in weight in the space of 6 days which was very scary, still levels are not properly controlled just started taking insulin injections which I hate, but it still doesn't answer why I have this with no family history, please help very distressed!. thankyou!.Www@Answer-Health@Com


Answers:
As has already been pointed out, you don't necessarily need to have a genetic history of diabetes to go on to develop it yourself !.!.!. just as if you did have a genetic history doesn't necessarily mean that you will go on to develop diabetes!.

Normally, women who do develop gestational diabetes do go on to develop type 2 diabetes or, at least, it predisposes them to developing type 2 diabetes at some stage of their life, but I agree with the earlier response that you may have been misdiagnosed during your period of gestation as type 2 rather than type 1, due to you, perhaps, going through the 'honeymoon phase' where your pancreas would still have been producing insulin!.

I disagree with the person who stated that there are different types of type 1 diabetes, though there are evidently different reasons, and different ages, at which type 1 might be diagnosed!.

Unfortunately, the reason you lost so much weight in a short period of time was due to the effect of your diabetes being uncontrolled!. Basically, because your pancreas wasn't producing insulin, your cells couldn't utilise the glucose that was present in your bloodstream!. In effect, what was happening was that your body was 'starving'!. It then automatically goes into overdrive, looking for a way to sustain itself!. This means that it will take 'food' from wherever it can !.!.!. in this case by utilising the fat and muscle reserves!.

I realise how scary losing so much weight can be, but now you've started insulin treatment you'll find that things will settle down, and the weight loss will discontinue, and you might start to put it back on again!.

I'm sorry to hear that you hate having insulin injections!. Believe me, I've been there!. I know exactly what you mean!. (It's a good job that I was fired from my job when I was first diagnosed as it used to take me a hour and a half or two hours each morning to get that damned needle into myself!. Am I a pussy or what!?)

You mentioned that some people use insulin pumps!. I, myself, have been using a pump since the latter part of 1998, and I can honestly say that it's been the best thing that's happened to me for my diabetes care!.

Sadly, if you live in the UK, which I think you may do, seeing as your question appeared in Yahoo! Answers UK & Ireland, it's not so straightforward to get a pump as you might think or hope !.!.!. unless, of course, you have the resources to pay for one yourself!. Then there's the added cost of ongoing supplies !.!.!. you need to change the site every two or three days, so there's cannulas, reservoirs (that contain the insulin), and connecting tubes to take into account!.

NICE (National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence) guidelines state "insulin pump therapy as one option for people with type 1 diabetes provided that:

* multiple-dose insulin therapy (including using insulin glargine when it



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