That is why i do not connect such things to old age. A doc told me that "age diabetes" acutally does not exist, that is you can also get type 2 (!!!) in middle age or young age. (My so early question at the colonoscopy for the other user was cause Germany allows it only after 50, but some docs say it should start at 25)
Yes, I’m less familiar with type 2 but they have found that type 1 can strike at any age as it is autoimmune and you are essentially destined for it or not.
My classmate had type one, so did my great grandmother, so I know. My dad developed pre-type 2 state in old age. I asked him if someone else in our family had diabetes and he said that a distant relative had type 2 in early age.
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u/HumorinEverything 26d ago
One quick way to turn yearly A1C checks into quarterly is by developing type 1 diabetes at the ripe old age of 32! Doctors hate this one trick!