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> What if there is an earthquake and you can't get to somewhere with snacks? I’m a Type 1 diabetic (diagnosed in my 30s) and have been living with it for about

> What if there is an earthquake and you can't get to somewhere with snacks? I’m a Type 1 diabetic (diagnosed in my 30s) and have been living with it for about a decade now. This really isn’t a “what if” situation. I know what will happen. I will die or hopefully just become incredibly ill. It’s not really scary at all. It’s just something I live with and prepare for as best I can. The one thing that I’ve learned from living with Type 1 is that all you can do is make the best decision you can in any given moment. My favorite doctor told me that diabetes is a disease that is all about making decisions. So is life, I guess.

liamwire 5y ago
Please forgive my ignorance, how is it possible that you lived until your thirties without knowing you have T1D?
- wellyousee 5y ago
  Peak age of diagnosis is mid-teens with quite a sharp bell curve. But, it can develop at any age. It takes a genetic predisposition and a trigger - perhaps a virus? - for your immune system to start eating your pancreas' insulin-producing cells. The old labels of "juvenile diabetes" etc. are as unhelpful as the notion it's caused by obesity.
- davidthewatson 5y ago
  The really interesting thing is not that T1D diagnosis has erased the label for "Juvenile onset diabetes" because it can happen at any age, it's that those previously-thought-destroyed pancreatic cells that produce insulin, are actually continuing decades after disease diagnosis and can be "reactivated" via BCG or Valter Longo's FMD: "Identifying most people with T1D continue to secrete varying amounts of insulin and C-peptides for decades after initial diagnosis: https://www.healthline.com/diabetesmine/dr-faustmans-controversial-diabetes-cure-research-continues https://www.healthline.com/diabetesmine/dr-faustmans-controv... See below for my deeper response on these and other issues: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30382364 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30382364
- paulcole 5y ago
  T1D can be triggered at any time in a person’s life. It’s autoimmune. Thinking of it as a childhood disease is outdated and (fortunately) most doctors are becoming aware of that.
- reddiky 5y ago
  diagnosed at 25, it happens :-/
- rthille 5y ago
  My nephew was 22 when diagnosed: https://www.healthline.com/diabetesmine/charlie-kimball-diabetes-coronavirus https://www.healthline.com/diabetesmine/charlie-kimball-diab...

liamwire 5y ago

Please forgive my ignorance, how is it possible that you lived until your thirties without knowing you have T1D?

wellyousee 5y ago
Peak age of diagnosis is mid-teens with quite a sharp bell curve. But, it can develop at any age. It takes a genetic predisposition and a trigger - perhaps a virus? - for your immune system to start eating your pancreas' insulin-producing cells. The old labels of "juvenile diabetes" etc. are as unhelpful as the notion it's caused by obesity.
davidthewatson 5y ago
The really interesting thing is not that T1D diagnosis has erased the label for "Juvenile onset diabetes" because it can happen at any age, it's that those previously-thought-destroyed pancreatic cells that produce insulin, are actually continuing decades after disease diagnosis and can be "reactivated" via BCG or Valter Longo's FMD: "Identifying most people with T1D continue to secrete varying amounts of insulin and C-peptides for decades after initial diagnosis: https://www.healthline.com/diabetesmine/dr-faustmans-controversial-diabetes-cure-research-continues https://www.healthline.com/diabetesmine/dr-faustmans-controv... See below for my deeper response on these and other issues: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30382364 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30382364
paulcole 5y ago
T1D can be triggered at any time in a person’s life. It’s autoimmune. Thinking of it as a childhood disease is outdated and (fortunately) most doctors are becoming aware of that.
reddiky 5y ago
diagnosed at 25, it happens :-/
rthille 5y ago
My nephew was 22 when diagnosed: https://www.healthline.com/diabetesmine/charlie-kimball-diabetes-coronavirus https://www.healthline.com/diabetesmine/charlie-kimball-diab...