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um, no, i think type 1 diabetes is like hereditary? so you're like born with it, but type 2 diabetes is caused from high blood sugar yeah.

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pretty much yeah, your not really born with type one, you can get it at any time, but its probably pre-determined since birth, so if your going to get it your going to no matter how healthy you are. type two can be caused by obesity and being over weight, though some people get it when they're not over weight or anything.

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I'm skinny and I got diabetes. It's pretty weird when I am getting good nutrients and eating well to start gaining weight my sugar go high like 200+ highest over 400+. When I was in the hospital 300 was common.

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yeah I'm skinny too an i got it when i was 7, lol no idea what those blood sugars are, its measured differently in the UK.
i don't get many highs, lots of lows though, been into hospital unconscious 3 times because it was too low lol

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um, no, i think type 1 diabetes is like hereditary? so you're like born with it, but type 2 diabetes is caused from high blood sugar yeah.

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Type 1 diabetes is not hereditary. Type 1 diabetes is considered to be an autoimmune disease, which means that it's a disease which results when your immune system mistakes an organ or some cells in your body as a foreign invader and begins attacking them. Basically, most type 1 diabetics' immune systems attacked the islet cells (which produce insulin) in their pancreas, thus they can no longer produce anymore insulin as a result.

There are other causes which are very rare, like some kind of odd virus or damage to one's pancreas, etc. Either way, a person is not born with type 1 diabetes - which is why you see people developing type 1 diabetes in many ages between 3 - 20. Why it stops after that is pretty much unexplained.

Post edited at 12:35 am on May 10, 2008 by Bud2400