Hi Marie! I will try to set up my profile page today. I have a friend who can help me. I will be in touch. I really appreciate having some contacts! Carol
thatās great! actually if you click your avatar in the upper right of your screen, youāll see a little symbol that looks like a gear (next to an envelope symbol) - that will take you to where you can set up your preferences and fill out some info so we can get to know you better.
let me know if you have any questions!
10 months old, 50 years ago last November.
25 years old. Diagnosed 1/14/2017
Diagnosed August 1962 at age 11
Ray
43 years old diagnosed with LADA. Thursday, November 26.
Diagnosed February 1976 at age 22. Just celebrated my 40th year of complication-free T1 diabetes last year! 30 of the 40 years is on the pump.
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My mother was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in the age of 50 (this year). She is really upset with the result and Iām worried seeing her like this.
I am sorry to hear about your mother. I am sure once she has got over the shock she will feel better and will discover that life is still well worth living. Good luck,
Maureen
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Thank you Pastel for your encouraging wordsā¦
Diagnosed with Type 1 in October 2016 at age 56.
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I was diagnosed in May 1957 at age 9. 60 years a āType 1 Insulin Dependent Juvenile Diabeticā or so I am labeled. When I was 10 I went to a diabetic camp for kids and was taught to give my own injections. We were all insulin dependent. Thatās the last time I ever met a Type 1.
I was 7 in 1988 when I was diagnosed. Itās interesting to read all the comments about the wording of Type 1 over the years. I prefer to keep my medical information discreet, but when I need to clarify to someone I usually state āinsulin-dependent.ā On medical forms, when I check off diabetic, I write next to it āIDDM.ā Itās been very eye-opening to me to learn from TuD just how many T1D diagnoses happened to adults.
I knew quite a few diabetics (all type 1s) growing up. There were two other kids in my grade at school (we knew because the parents had to bring us special, sugar free snacks on birthday days when the rest of the class would get cupcakes), I met other kids in the waiting room at my endoās office, and from diabetes summer camp.
I was 3 when dxād in 1971. Mom thought I drank too much and peed too much and I was too skinny. She had to convince our family Doc to check my urine for sugar. My younger brother was 7 or 8 when he was dxād 1978ish. No known family history. All of our grandparents lived 80+ years. We were the only ones known to be diabetic in their memories. The only D kids we knew were ourselves. We met other diabetic kids at summer camp.
Diagnosed with T1 five years ago on my birthday at age 53. I had all the classic symptoms: tired, desperately thirsty, constantly peeing, weight loss, and my eyesight was messed up. I thought I needed new glasses and had a UTI. Doc found ketones in my urine and asked to do a blood test. I was on insulin within half an hour-- Diagnosed on a weekend at an after hours clinic! Smart doc, lucky me that she nailed the diagnosis. That was my REAL birthday present.
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I was 24 at diagnosis, in February of this year! Now if only I could figure out how to out so,e weight back onā¦
I was diagnosed late Feb/ early Mar of 1998, at the age of 24. I spent about six months on the max dosages of Type 2 pills (glucaphage, glucatrol, maybe anotherā¦) which did pretty much nothing to help me stop losing weight. Insulin injections were like night and day!
My younger brother was diagnosed in 1988 at the age of 11. I knew what I had when I went to the doctor, I had seen him go through it. Why I did the pills? hope against hope maybe?
Age 9, in 1970. All Iād wanted to do for several months was eat and drink and sleep. My brother hurt his arm one day, so my dad took us both to the doctor. The doctor told my dad, āOne has a dislocated shoulder and the other one has diabetes.ā I didnāt have a clue what diabetes was, donāt think Iād even ever heard the word, but it sounded so dire I burst into tears.
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I was diagnosed at 1. I was in a hyper coma. Thankfully my mom was a nurse & my dad was a doctor. Iām 42 now.
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Age 4 in 1967, My brother who is not quite 2 years older than me was Dx at age 30 with type 1