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How many autoimmune diseases can you have?
Autoimmune Diseases | Last Active: Jun 20 11:51am | Replies (41)Comment receiving replies
Is Diabetes type 1 autoimmune? I thought it was genetic. I have type 2 as a result of an unknown severe virus, in hospital a week, every lab test & imaging studies, nothing was revealed except sky high C reactive protein level, fever 40°C (105°F) for over a week, in 2006. After that virus, a constant downhill for my entire body, in a wheelchair now, interstitial lung disease, over a dozen ai diseases, many rare, degenerative disc disease, spontaneous broken vertebrae, in constant pain.
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The propensity to have autoimmune diseases is genetic. There are other types but the main cause of Type 1 diabetes is autoimmune. If you were born without enough insulin-producing cells that would be simply genetic.
Did you become wheat intolerant?
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Type 1 diabetes is said to be an autoimmune condition. I had a ruptured appendix in 2006 that nearly killed me, but I am not sure that was the cause. My A1C crept up to 7.7 and I was put on insulin at age 78. I am 83 now and have no other conditions, fortunately. Sorry you are in pain, that is the worst!!