It runs on both sides of my family. I don’t know much about my dad or his side of the family but my mom has told me people in his family have it. There are a few on my mom’s side too. They all have type 2…I am the only type 1.
It is really a family thing in my family. It is more uncommon when you don’t have it in my family…
The biggest part are all type 1, and some type 2.
So when someone here gets it he or she already knows how to deal with it…
It runs in the family from my mothers side allthough, the side of my father , we have some but they are mostly type 2…
I’m type 1 since my early twenties…
The youngest one was the daughter of my sister at the age of 6.
The only one in my family that has diabetes is my uncle, that was probably because of complications of hepatitis. At least thats what ive been told
Im type 2. My mother is also diabetic type 2.
Nobody in my family has ever had any kind of diabetes. I had a great-grandmother who died in her early 30’s around 1910. After my D diagnosis in 1976 I tried to find out if perhaps she died of it in those pre-insulin days, but the only living relative who had known her couldn’t remember.
My gran on my father’s side had type 1, LOTS of cousins, distant cousins with type 1. Think mum had gestational D with me, I was her last child out of 7.
I know very few type 2 around here, we are all type 1. Lots of young children developing this especially young boys.
Both of my grandmothers were insulin dependent. Of my 12 grandchildren, only one of them is insulin dependent. He was diagnosed at age 6. I was diagnosed at 16.
yes
All the females on my mother’s side are insulin dependent - as am I 
Hi Manny:)
I am the only one on both my parents side.
I asked my parents, and all of their siblings, and then also my grandparents.
Nobody, just me.
I got it after having gestational diabetes.
I am working real hard to make sure no one gets it in my family.
Olga
Aunt T1 died at age 13,
Mom T1 died at age 48,
Me, T1 still living at 51.
Rick
I’m Type 1. No diabetes of either type on either side of my family.
T2 in grandparents/greatgrandparents generation. One of my fathers cousins was T1 from birth. I was DX’d T1 at age 22. No one else that I know of.
Yes, both types
Paternal Grandma Dx in her 60’s T-2 died 86 no known complications
Paternal Uncle Dx in his 70’s T-2 died 79 of lung cancer
Paternal Aunt hypoglycemia Dx in her 70’s living
Brother Type 1 age 14 died age 44 of complications from D- very sad too young!
renal failure on dialysis 5 years, died of stroke, had trouble with ulcers on toes periodically, many hypo’s
Now me in process of being DX age 36 after three children over 7 years GDM with all. I discovered my higher BG #s postpartum and I am pressing to get tight control after watching my bro for sooooo long struggling. (Not sure 1.5 or 2 yet see endo this week)
I love this website!! I find much comfort and info. here! Thanks y’all
In my family as far as we have searched i am the only one who has diabetes…
moms side:
- grandfather had it (god bless his soul
). Type 2 - grandmother’s sister Type 1
Dads side:
- grandma. Type 2
- uncle’s wife. Type 2
- auntie’s husband. Type 2 (i think?)
these are all i know about (Big Family!!)
oh btw im a type 1
One side of my family is a mystery. On the other, my Grandfather died from complications at 65; sister diagnosed with Type I during pregnancy at age 29; brother’s daughter Type I from birth; I was diagnosed as a Type 2 at age 45 and converted to type I over 12 years. My “official” diagnosis now is Type 1.5 or LADA. I gave both my kids meters and make them check a fasting blood sugar once a week. So far they’re both fine although my daugher tends to run a little low. Time will tell.
It seems like type 1 does in my moms side of the family. I was diagnosed when I was 2, a cousin a few years younger than me was diagnosed at 11 and I have another cousin that is in his mid twenties that may just be getting it now, which is somewhat odd. I guess it could be that type 1.5 I was reading about yesterday?
No ,I’m the only one who likes to run. LOL. Sorry couldn’t resist the bad joke. But the truth is I’m the only one…but there is other auto-immune diseases within the family;my daughter has Crohn’s ,my sister RA and I’m type1.5 diabetes.
A number of well-regarded scientific studies have shown that a majority of people who develop most forms of type 1 diabetes have no family history of the disease. However, a family incidence does increase a person’s risk for developing the autoimmune form of diabetes known as type 1. Joslin’s website has an interesting summary of the various risk levels, which can be found at http://www.joslin.org/managing_your_diabetes_687.asp. It’s well worth reading.
The National Institutes of Health/NIDDK and JDRF have funded a study to look more into the matter called the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth study (see the article from JDRF’s Countdown magazine at http://www.searchfordiabetes.org/public/documents/countdown.pdf, which indicates that in spite of growing media attention to type 2 incidence growing in children, an overwhelming majority of kids develop type 1, not type 2. While genetics play a role, the reality is that a majority of caucasians have susceptibility for type 1, but some studies have suggested the “hygiene hypothesis” is that type 1 occurs much more often in developed, clean countries (Scandinavia, for example, has the highest incidence, followed closely by the U.K., whereas less-developed countries tend to have a lower incidence) where children are not exposed to various viruses and bacteria which serve to educate the immune system to appropriately distinguish “self” from “non-self” … but this, too, is merely a hypothesis, not validated by scientific studies. Still, the causes are interesting, but really don’t do much for those who already have the disease.