| I was dx'ed at age 13--right in the midst of puberty. However, that was in 1966, long before we could monitor our blood sugar levels in any accurate way. We had to pee into a cup, measure 5 drops of urine into a test tube with 10 drops of water, put in a tablet of (whatever that stuff was called...!), let it boil and then match the color it turned to a chart--blue was good, orange was bad is how I remember it. All that told you was if you were "spilling sugar" in your urine--which was some indication of what your blood glucose might have been several hours earlier. But because we had no idea what our "renal threshold" for glucose might be, that whole process really told us nothing of any use whatsoever. I had my blood glucose measured by the doctor twice a year--it was generally in the 70s or 80s, but my urine tests at the time seemed all over the place--4+ one moment, zero the next. Who knew?
Michael | 
