Out of curiosity, how many people here,
with hypoglycemia or who know someone that
has it, have relatives or family members
(the closer the better in terms of
separation) who are east european in
origin (poland, czech republic or what it
used to be, russia, etc.)?
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Stan
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Posted: 04-22-06 08:56am
Well, so far there goes a little theory I
had! Oh well.
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notafan
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Re: Nationality Question Posted: 04-22-06 09:25am
stan stepanic
wrote:
out of curiosity, how many
people here, with hypoglycemia or who know
someone that has it, have relatives or
family members (the closer the better in
terms of separation) who are east european
in origin (poland, czech republic or what
it used to be, russia,
etc.)?
my great-grandparents on my mom's side
were from what is now slovakia. No one
in the family that I know of has
hypoglycemia, in fact they were all pretty
long-lived and healthy.
Btw, we are celebrating easter tomorrow.
:-)
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Stan
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Posted: 04-22-06 09:42am
Orthodox, eh? Any family history of
diabetes?
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notafan
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No Diabetes - Posted: 04-22-06 10:46am
None at all - but my great-grandmother
died of cancer, and my grandmother of
non-hodgkin's lymphoma (they were both
past 80 though), and my mom had breast
cancer (carcinoma in-situ, non-invasive,
and is 19 years post-treatment, thank
god). The men of the family died of
heart disease afaik.
I have to have mammograms every six months
- oh the joy :-/
yes, we're orthodox. I have to go make
an artery-clogging easter cheese now.
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Stan
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Posted: 04-22-06 13:38pm
Boy, my theory is just getting shot to
hell and back!
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Stan
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Posted: 04-22-06 17:05pm
Uh oh, wait, one more in my direction!
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mxgurlie101
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Posted: 04-23-06 20:39pm
My family is from poland and stuff my
family actually fits eveything you said in
your first post except none of them have
diabetes
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Stan
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Posted: 04-23-06 21:35pm
Hmmm, one more my way.
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tinabeena
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Background Posted: 04-24-06 14:54pm
On my mother's side:
her grandmother was from poland
her grandfather was from czechoslovakia
(these two were married and were my
grandmother's parents)
my mom's mom died from complications of
lupus, was hypoglycemic, hypothyroid and
had celiac.
Her father has celiac and alzheimers
(irish/french ancestry)
my mother has hypoglycemia,
hypothyroidism, and sarcoidosis
i don't know much about my dad. (except
that he's an alcoholic with mental
problems) his sister died at 29 from ms.
I have no contact with that family, so I
don't know their ancestry.
I have celiac, hypoglycemia, suspected
lupus (neg. Ana, several jones criteria)
reactive arthritis, had a hysterectomy at
29 due to severe endometriosis and
adenomiosis, and adrenal dysfunction.
Two out of three of my children have
hypoglycemia, one is hypothyroid with a
multi-nodular goiter and two have celiac.
