life expectancy with type 1 diabetes

Hi, my son is 13 years old and he is suffering from type 1 diabetes. This disorder appeared after I have divorced with my wife and our soon take it very hard. Soon after that he gets diabetes. He is doing fine right now, with smaller crisis from time to time, but I would like to know how it would affect his future life and what life expectancy for such disorder is.

Hi, I am also suffering from type 1 diabetes for a long time. Treatments and medications are greatly improved but such disorders are leaving consequences which are shortening our life potential. Unfortunately type 1 diabetes is shortening life expectancy for about 15 years. Serious heart damages, same as damages on the blood vessels are main reason for this.

I bet he just got the MMR booster prior to getting type one. Vaccines give many people type 1.

Where is the evidence for the most recent comment? It is complete non-sense. MMR has never showed any association with type I diabetes, even with the hysteresis dominant in society these days. The claim that it causes autism (based on original anecdotes of a whopping *11* children) has been discredited on countless occasions; and to put a final boot in the unhelpful comment above, the MMR booster is given within a child's second year of life. Here are just some recent academic papers on the subject.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12612250?ordinalpos=16&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18019187?ordinalpos=3&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17626143?ordinalpos=9&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17928818?ordinalpos=5&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17928818?ordinalpos=5&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum


Fool.

I( have had type 1 diabetis since I was 18 months old and I am now 61 years old. Until recently I have had no significant problems wsith the disbetis. Sometimes it is difficult to inject the insulin when you are out with friends and sometimes you must turn down bar hoping with the alcoholic beverages, raises yout sugar leve.

It does not hampedr affiliation with sports participation providing everyone knows you have it and what to do in an emergency.

I have fished and hunted over most of the 50 states and have enjoyed my life. I have earned a masters degree in state and local taxation with a 3.8 GPA so it does not affect learning. I hAVE BEEN MARRIED TO MY WIFE FOR 33 HAPPY years.

At this point I am having difficulty with memory and not rfemembering things. My vision was fairly good until 2009 at which time a developed a catayartic probelms. The memory is the biggest problem because I don'tnow what to do about it. All the doctors tell me it is related to poor blood flow to the legs, arms and brain which is the reslut of long term diabetis for type 1.

Yet I have not personally found anyone that has had it for 60 years and is still alivde.

I would just like to say that whether one agrees or disagrees with a comment, it is highly unprofessional to resort to the calling of names. If you believe something to be true, you can rest peacefully in its veracity. This commentator's defensiveness leads me to question rather than accept his/her credibility. That said, however, I will read the articles. Thank you for providing an actual reference instead of making unsupported assertions.