| I've always believed diabetes to be caused by a dodgy gene that is "activated" so to speak by a viral infection so I say that it's a plausible theory.
I remember 2 or 3 months before I was diagnosed (I was 13 at the time), I went on a school trip for a few days to France. The first couple of days were fine, I enjoyed all the activities and everything. Then one day when we went to look around one of the towns in France, I had this sudden feeling of nausea and continued to feel sick and lethargic for the rest of the trip. I really didn't enjoy the coach ride home.. I had diarrhea and needless to say I spent most of the time in the coach toilet! The annoying thing was that all of my school friends enjoyed the whole of the trip without feeling ill at all, and I even ate all the same food as them so I don't think it could've been that.
Anyway a month later in October a friend of mine from school was diagnosed with diabetes (although she didn't go on the trip to france). It was also about October that I started to get the first symptoms of diabetes. I've always wondered now if I caught a virus from France that triggered my diabetes and unfortunately for my friend..passed it on to her aswell.  | 
