12 almost 13
I was 2. Guess iām lucky cause i donāt remember living without it, so itās not near as hard for me to pass a cookie or a coke up.
At age 21, I was dxād with Gout. At age 31, I was dxād with Type 2 D (but now might be 1.5 or LADA, not confirmed yet), At age 41, I was dxād with Asthma (though my current doc thinks that was misdxād, perhaps it was an allergy). I canāt wait for my 51st b-day in 5 more years. What other ailment can they throw my way??
I was 14ā¦ Three years ago. (:
I was 17 and it was 17 years ago so diabetes took me 50% of my life !
I was 8 - Iām a 40 year veteran. Clinitest tablets, beef-pork NPH insulin, one shot a day - those were the days!
I was 36 years old when diagnosed with Type 1ā¦ My mother was 30 years old when diagnosed with Type 1ā¦
Eric was not quite 18 months old. Heās now had diabetes more than half his earthly existence, and heās only 3!
I was 18 too-between my fall and spring semesters. I wanted to go back, but the Dr made me take the spring semester off.
I had gestational diabetes when I was pregnant with my 2nd child, but not with my 1st. I was 21 when I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes. When she was born the diabetes went away. I was told I had a chance of developing type 2 diabetes later in life since I had a history of gestational diabetes. I was hoping I wouldnāt get it since my dad has type 1. Well, in October 2007 I started to feel signs of hyperglycemia so I started to check my sugarsā¦they were elevated. I go to the doctor and I was told I had type 2 diabetes. This was November 2007, when I was 22 years old.
It was 1982 and I had just celebrated my 13th birthday, followed by my first period, followed by my type 1 diagnosisā¦all within a three month span and my diagnosis fell on my Motherās birthdayā¦yeah, it was a great summer.
I was 3! Back in 1985!
I was 8. I am completely biased, and I figure if someoneās diagnosed above age 18, then they donāt have ārealā diabetes, because they didnāt have to go through their teenage years with diabetes, and they can remember (well) what life was like before diagnosis. (Okay, Iām kidding. Sort of. Mainly Iām just really jealous of people who were older when diagnosed. But then people who were diagnosed at age 4 probably think Iām a wuss.)
I was 33 - I was pregnant and told I had gestational - threw away my insulin and sugar meter after my daughter was born, only to find out 6 weeks later at my routine follow up that my fasting was still high. They said Type 2 for a month until I insisted on seeing a specialist and got the antibodies tested. Sure enough - type 1/1.5 LADA. They said the pregnancy was my trigger. Iād do it all over again just to have my little girl. Now my fingers are crossed for her and we have her enrolled in a natural history study - she gets her blood drawn once a year to look for antibodies. It keeps me from checking her sugar all the time because I hope that we would catch the antibodies before her blood sugar ever showed anything.
i was 31, still am, diagnosed about 6 weeks ago. it runs in my family, both grandfathers and my father, and family history going back generations Type 2.
dx at age 8, 25 days before my 9th birthday. that was 17 years ago.
I was 12. I still remember after I got the diabetes and was in the hospital. I cried about taking the shots and checking my bloodsugars. I think now ā¦ wow have I come a long way 11 years later.
2 weeks before my 16th birthday 
Also 4 years old.
I was 10, but only 6 weeks from 11 yrs. I am now old enough to draw social security, and old enough that medical people who do not know my diagnosis date might at first think I have type 2.