About a month ago, I was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. I’m still a kid, so I was wondering if it had any long-term negatives. I quickly accepted the disease though and try to think of it as an advantage

(Before I would eat unhealthy foods, and live without worrying about problems, but now that I have this disease, i HAVE to eat healthier foods so it might benefit me in the long run anyway)

I just had some questions

1) Even if the disease is under control, does simply having the disease increase my risks of complications, just because I have the disease?

2) How likely is it that my children will get the disease

3) Even if you keep everything under controlled (as mentioned in question 1) Will I die more earlier then without it? For example, if I keep a good Blood Sugar 80% of the time, will the 20% of the time it isn’t good add up to me when I am older like 60-70 causing me to perhaps “die earlier”
Thanks for the responses.

No one in my family that I know of has Type 1 Diabetes, however, my grandmother has type 2, and I believe that a lot of women on her side (my mother side of the family) had type 2 as well.

But yes, I may be the “oddball” as well lol.

Right now I think I am in the honey-moon stage, my BG levels have been 90-120 on average, the reason I was just asking question 3 is because I know when Im out of this stage it’s going to be much more harder to manage, and even if I try my best, I would want to know if the disease honestly lowers life expectancy.

Anyway, there was this lady who staged in this period for 9+ years, hopefully I can do the same, or until an alternative treatment / cure is discovered.

Thanks for the replies by the way

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Im a nursing student and im sort of confused. My teacher gave us a paper titled “HYPOglycemic drugs Indicated for Type 2 diabetes”

One of the drugs listed is Glucophage.

For glucophage it says it decrease glucose production in the liver, but wouldn’t you want that if you were a HYPERglycemic and not Hypoglycemic?

If there is no other sign exept high blood sugar levels, can that be type 2 diabetes? Is it necesary to have some clinical symptoms at all in such case?

doctor is not really experienced with this. I asked the insurance compny and they said that I have to see ENDOCRINOLOGIST. Is this the right type of doctor to see? If not, who should I see, what doctor?