Does the quality of life drop if you have type 1 diabetes?

Depends : If you define higher quality of life as crusing thru it with minimal worry about your health & few contacts with doctors, i guess you can say it does. Of course that philosophy may tempt you to adopt bad habits that will do more harm than t1dm & lead to premature death. Well controlled dm patients often lead very enriching lives with an appreciation for the health they strive to maintain.

Not necessarily: If well controlled, can have excellent quality of life think of sport figures, actors/ actresses, marathon runners with it mary tyler moore, etc.