Quick onset of Diabetes I in an adult

[Teck]

My son was diagnosed with Diabetes 1 yesterday and we are surprised it is type 1.  I always thought  type 1 was juvenile diabetes!  Wow was I wrong.  Does anyone have any advise to help him out?

[888mom]

My niece has type I diabetes.  She is 6, and normally is occurs in children, but can also occur in adults.  Type I means the pancreas just stops working and producing insulin.  Type Is must use insulin to control their diabetes.  Type IIs can control their diabetes through diet and pills (though over time they will eventually need insulin and sometimes need it sooner than later or immediately but it's not quite the same reason as type Is).   It was a quick onset for her.  One week she just started getting lethargic and sitting in a corner and drinking obscene amounts of water.  And when my sister took her in to the hospital her blood sugar was 700, which the doctors said was a miracle she was alive and not in a coma.   I have type II diabetes.  I do not have to do insulin, at least not yet.  I take a pill.  The pill wouldn't do anything for her because she's type I.