Hi @HalleyOmalley, and all you warriors.

Type 2, has many treatment options. If you are willing, initially your numbers can be controlled by right eating, portion control, exercise, proper hydration. Most need medications to help control their numbers.

Type 1 has 1 treatment. Insulin or die. Because type 1 is an autoimmune disease in which your body attacks and destroys your insulin making parts of your pancreas, within days.
People are diagnosed almost from birth to about age 20.

There are 4 tiers of type 2 diabetes medications + insulin when needed.

A type 2 can progress to the point that insulin is the best option. Usually this is because the pancreas is overworked to the point it burns out, and can no longer produce insulin.

Even when a type 2 progresses to insulin use, they are still a type 2. Type 2 is a metabolic disorder, it is not autoimmune.

I repeat type 1s have to use insulin or they will die. A type 2 who uses insulin is still a type 2. You do not progress from type 2 to type 1.

There are some hereditary factors in diabetes. It often has concentrations in families.

Almost everyone for 4 generations over age 50 in @A DiabetesTeam Member s family has been diagnosed with type 2.

Both my parents died from type 2 - over 30 years ago. I am the oldest of 8. All my siblings were diagnosed with type 2 diabetes 10-20 years before my diabetes diagnosis in February 2021. 3 are gone.

So there are diabetes clusters in families.

I trust this answers most of your questions.
Have a wonderful day.

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A Diabete...

Thank you so much. Explanation is perfect