2006-09-07 10:26:54 · 12 answers · asked by Rodney K V 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Diabetes
i am just borderline daibetic...but my mom has it, two of my sisters has it...my grandpa had it...a aunt has it..it just seems to run in families...that is only the family that i am close to and know about their health problems...my grandpa had it so bad they had to take part of his leg cause of a sore that started in his foot,,, and just kept cutting a little more all the time...it was so sad...he was a farmer and was so use to being outside and to see him with his leg all the way off after so many operations and then he finally died...my mother now has it so bad...she is up to 4 shots a day.... it is really something that hurts to watch family members die with it...
2006-09-07 10:36:01 · answer #1 · answered by sanangel 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm the only one in my family with type 1 diabetes.
Both of my parents and a few aunts and uncles have type 2
2006-09-08 13:59:53 · answer #2 · answered by squeak_1974 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am the only one that has it. Mine is a result of Cystic Fibrosis and the corresponding impact to my pancreas. It doesn't completely fit the description for type 1 or type 2 diabetes and is known as CFRD (Cystic Fibrosis Related Diabetes).
2006-09-07 17:36:49 · answer #3 · answered by Newlungs2004 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My mother died from diabetes complications--a kidney transplant/ tripple heart by-pass and it gave her 10 more years of life but the numerouse close call were many until one day she had her last heart attack and died.
My grandmothers both died from diabetic complications and now my father is a diabetic and my moms twin sister is a diabetic and my son is a diabetic as well as myself.
2006-09-07 23:33:58 · answer #4 · answered by ~♥ L ♥~ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a Type I and am the only person in my family with diabetes.
Type I is auto-immune, unlike Type II which is metabolic. Per the ADA a Type II has a 40% chance of having children with Type II. A Type I has a 20% chance of passing it on to her child.
The difference is that while they don't know what causes the body's immunce cells to kill off the insuling producing cells (i.e, Type I), they do know that diet and exercise (which you are taught by your family life mostly) are the leading causes of Type II.
2006-09-08 11:51:33 · answer #5 · answered by J T 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am the only one in a LOONG family history to become a diabetic
2006-09-07 17:42:44 · answer #6 · answered by Tricia K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nobody in my family does! But of course my parents came over, after WW2, from the part of Ukraine that Poland took over after WW1. Doctors weren't a part of a day in town so maybe one of them died from diabetees complications and they just buried them!
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2006-09-07 21:15:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
both my grandmothers had diabetes, my aunt died from it, and a lot of my cousins have it.so it runs in the family.
2006-09-08 11:32:42 · answer #8 · answered by ha_m_da 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
almost everyone in my family has it including cousins aunts uncles grandparets greatgrandparents and no they were not fat...lots have died right after they where put on insulin? not sure why...some of us started with low sugars then went into high sugars...
2006-09-07 22:11:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
2, my paternal grandfather had it, and my maternal grandmother.
They were both type 2 though. I am type 1. Go figure!
2006-09-07 18:07:53 · answer #10 · answered by J 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋