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How old were you when you were first diagnosed with T1D?
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12 years old
I was diagnosed eight days before my 24th birthday.
Looks like so many get it as older kids! I just barely had turned 4.
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4
I was a juvenile, back when T1D was called juvenile diabetes. I’m glad I was diagnosed at age 5 rather than 25, honestly.
I was 11, my brother was 7 months old & his oldest daughter was 23 months old when we were diagnosed.
I was diagnosed on my 10th birthday. Easy to remember the date
I was almost 11, little sister was 11 and little brother was 16 at our diagnoses.
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I was 11. this summer I celebrate 59 years LIVING with it. (I have a brother who was diagnosed at 18, and his son was diagnosed at 4. )
72. I’m 77 now. Our oldest son was diagnosed with T1D at age 29. I like to say that I inherited it from him. 🙂
I was just turning 61 when I received an accurate diagnosis, but was misdiagnosed as a T2 twenty years earlier. My two youngest children were diagnosed at 11 and 6 however. They were diagnosed at just three months and four days apart.
8 yrs old
I was 6 years old. 60 year ago in November!
I was diagnosed at age 8 in late December 1962.
I was diagnosed at age 62 on July 2, 2015. Not too many of us older ones
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I was a bit of an odd T1D. Some symptoms and elevated BG appeared at about 13 and it was somewhat controlled by diet and exercise until I was 15.
Right on my 15th birthday I ended up in the hospital and started insulin. I’m now 58 so I guess type 1 for 43-45 years.
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1 month before my 54th birthday.
I was. in grad school and had just turned 28. I thought the symptoms must have something to do with exam and paper writing pressure as it was near end of term. Came on pretty suddenly–over a few weeks–and I had no idea what it was. Fortunately my wife mentioned it to my m-i-l, an occupational therapist, and she said “Get him to a dr stat!” This was back in 1983 and the “Type” nomenclature wasn’t instituted yet, though my Dr told me about it by way of explaining that the auto-immune kind doesn’t track with age. So it says “Juvenile type” on my record.
Dx in 1955, age 4 yr, 7 mos. Called Juvenile Diabetes no matter what the age of the person. Tyoe 2 was adult onset. Later I remember Insulin Dependent Diabetes. I have tried to stay fairly educated about Diabetes. I think bc the disease has been nearly lifelong I didn’t note points of change in terminology.
I had just turned 5 and was in the hospital from Thanksgiving until Christmas Eve.
At 57 I was diagnosed as diabetic. Within 2 more years, I was diagnosed type 1.
Diagnosed T1 at 21 years old.
I was 12yo (1975) and our daughter was 9yo (2006) when dx’d. The differences in our initial experiences with T1D were HUGE. I decided to learn the ‘new’ management techniques with fresh eyes, even though I was well-controlled on a pump for the previous 13 years. Now we’re our own support group!
I had just turned 5 in 1957. I was very fortunate to have Drs. Joslin, White and Krall as my early physicians in Boston.
4. (👍 ͡❛ ᴗ ͡❛)👍 Thumbs up to all you 4-year-olds. That was 70 years ago for me . . . . . . during the technological ice age. Biggest first advance was test-tape in 1956, ref. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/helen-murray-free-dead/2021/05/04/7757199a-ace8-11eb-b476-c3b287e52a01_story.html
Diagnosed in 1951 when I was five years old
I was in my early 30s when diagnosed with t1d.was 7 when diagnosed with pre diabetic
I was 3. A few days marked 25 years.