Anyone else get more auto-immune disorders after dx UC?

Last year my doctor suggested that I might be on my way to autoimmune (type I) diabetes and I almost panicked. I immediately cut out all milk, cheese and dairy. Type I is called childrens' diabetes because with their underdeveloped gastrointestinal tract, cow's milk can leach into the bloodstream, provoking an autoimmune response. That is why it is highly recommended that mothers breast feed their babies with human and not cow's milk.

Anyway the cow milk proteins that leak into the bloodstream are almost identical to the protein in the pancreas that produces insulin. So the immune system ends up also destroying the pancreas cells as well as the cow milk protein, causing type I diabetes.

But it turns out that I was lucky. My blood tested negative for the anti-gad antibodies that destroy insulin cells. But it really did scare me and I feel for you. All I can say is do some research and perhaps restricting dairy can postpone or even halt type I diabetes.

I have asthma (before UC) plus UC-related liver disease called primary sclerosing cholangitis.

So far...lol.
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Back in the early 90's when I was a teenager, I was diagnsoed with a rare autoimmune disease, pemphigus erythmatosis. I was treated successfully for that with steroids, & after about 2 years it has rarely flared up again. Then, in the mid 2000's I developed Graves disease, & was on meds for that for quite some time. After childbirth, in 2002, my thyroid settled down & I was able to go off of thyroid meds. But I was diagnosed with UC in 2003-2003. I'm an autoimmune mess, my immune system absolutely hates me! Hence, my fervent belief that UC/IBD are autoimmune disorders, & not caused by bacteria, imbalances, diet, etc. I ought to see an immunologist, just to see what they have to say about me. But I see enough docs as it is!