Siblings with diabetes?

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Bex84 said:
Hi are there any parents out there who have 2 kids with T1D?
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I may be totally misremembering, and he doesn't seem to have posted for a few months, but I think @Bronco Billy had 2 children with T1.
 
Only the one child with it here but it’s quite common for there to be siblings with it. Just because one child has it doesn’t mean others will develop it though.
 
Both my friend and her brother have type1 diabetes.
 
There can be a fairly strong genetic link with T1.

We also have some parent/child combos like @stephknits - though I’ve not seen Steph around for a while
 
There is an article in the latest Balance magazine about siblings with Type 1.
Myself? I am the only one. No history of any type of diabetes in siblings, parents, grandparents, … but then I always like to be different.
 
My parents did! But then both my brother and I were diagnosed in adulthood so they didn’t have to deal with T1 kids. No indication of any form of diabetes having occurred anywhere else in the family, and my research goes back 5 generations.
 
Ah well - no sign in my family when I got it either BUT my dad's mother died when he was still at school, of heart trouble he'd always been told. ( I thought I might do that myself when I was pre diagnosis and amongst other things had frequent heart palpitations so that's the main reason I thought I'd better ring the doctors and get an appointment. It's one of the noticeable effects of ketoacidosis, it turns out.) His dad died - great big man cos he would sit on one of mom's dining chairs when he walked to our house on Sunday mornings and have me and my big sister on each knee and when we went to his house he absolutely filled the great big ('Overstuffed') armchair he always sat in. So - why did dad's mum or indeed his dad, really die?

And then my sister - after having breast cancer - was diagnosed with T2. My dad had an older sister and she had one daughter - our only first cousin. She must be nearly 80 by now and was diagnosed with T2 in her 70's.
 
silentsquirrel said:
I may be totally misremembering, and he doesn't seem to have posted for a few months, but I think @Bronco Billy had 2 children with T1.
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Absolutely right! I have two children with type 1. They were diagnosed within 7 months of each other over 13 years ago.
 
Bronco Billy said:
Absolutely right! I have two children with type 1. They were diagnosed within 7 months of each other over 13 years ago.
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How old were they when they were diagnosed and how did find the general daybto day. My one is 13 and the other 6 and its a bigger difference in care given.
 
@Bex84 My daughter was 6 and my son was 5. It was more difficult for my daughter for a number of reasons. She was very ill at diagnosis (we nearly lost her) and that left its mental scars, we were new to diabetes so were on a steep learning curve too, and she didn't like needles. My son found it easier, I think mainly because we were better at it and he had been watching his sister for 7 months so it wasn't totally new to him as it had been for her. What are the differences?
 
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