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If you (or your loved one) were diagnosed with T1D as a child, at what age were you diagnosed?
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It was two weeks before my eighteenth birthday.
I was 4 when I was diagnosed. In May I “celebrated” my 70th year living with T1D!
@lynda meyer. Bless you, ma’am. May you survive a long and healthy life.
I was diagnosed at age 18
My son, now 11.5, was diagnosed at 18 months of age.
I was diagnosed at 11 years in 1982, my brother was diagnosed at 7 months old in 1972 and his oldest daughter was 23 months old in 2004.
My younger brother was diagnosed at 5 and I at 8. My poor parents as this was 55 years ago in the dark ages of juvenile diabetes as it was called back then. Average life span after diagnosis 20 years.
Barely, I was eighteen and totally unprepared for what lay ahead. As the saying goes
: “if I knew then….”
I was diagnosed shortly after I turned 20, which is technically “adult” status, but I was in college and still living at home. Now, 30 years later, I think of myself as being a “kid” at diagnosis as I was not yet living what I think of as my “adult” life.
At age 4, life was as simple as an Amazon 1-swipe—poke a syringe in with NPH and regular.
Now life is more complicated than Byzantine philosophy—insulin, inserts, tubing, syringes, skin wipes, alcohol, algorithms, adjustments, hardware, software, vaporware, cgm’s, overpatches, signal interference, test strips, glucometers, , steroid interferences, PPI interferences, and other complications to be tended to.
And I haven’t even gotten to the Byzantine-squared public/private/not-for-profit/for-some-profit-but-not-all-profit gargantuan American medical system frustrations and delays.
Dying unto one’s former self to be born anew is an old Christian trope. I think I know where its appeal comes from. Sigh! 😖🤣😑
15 and ever since Life has been a “Shot in the Dark” even with CGMs and Control IQ
I was dx’ed at 18 months of age, my eldest son was dx’ed by me at 8 months of age and his eldest daughter was dx’ed at 18 months. Sort of runs on the family.
I was in dka and told I was diabetic on my 10th birthday…….61 years ago.
I am Type 2 Dietetic
I was 13. I was a defiant kid and feel now I am glad I was not my parents. That is, looking back on the situation now. Back then, they just did not understand but being a parent now they were trying to save my life from complications down the way. I have a younger brother with adult onset and a sister with pancreatic cancer, I wish there was a way to help them besides advice and recipes.
I have always believed that while we T1s are born with the predispositions to this disease, there usually is some trigger to activate it. In my case this was stress at the last year of university, and in my daughter’s case, move to a new country and starting school at the age of 4.
Diagnosed at age 24, well into adulthood, but not yet transitioned from childhood into adultery.
I was 8 when dx in 1955.
I once again reiterate that you guys are in dire need of new questions. This one has been asked at least twice before.