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04-06-2008, 08:07 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Texas
Posts: 61
| |  How long...
How long have you had Diabetes for? How old were you when you were diagnosed???
I have had Diabetes for 13 years and was diagnosed when I was 23 months old....
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Molly, 15, Type 1 for 13 years
Pumping with Animas 1200.
Daughter to my dad Clay a type one diabetic for 40 years.On shots
Older cousin to Mandy also type 1 diabetic for 1 year. Pumpin with Cosmo. |
04-06-2008, 08:18 PM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Federal Way, Wa
Posts: 688
| | | 11 Months, 35 years old |
04-06-2008, 08:22 PM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Cincinnati, OH
Posts: 8,164
| | | Gotcha beat Molly....25 years and diagnosed at 11 months old.
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●Blue Ash, Ohio Police Dispatcher
●Type 1 diabetic for 25 years (11 months old)
●Animas pumper since December of 2002
~IR 1000 (Dec. 2002-Jan. 2005)
~IR 1200 (Jan. 2005 - ?)
●LifeScan OneTouch UltraSmart Diabetes is an Art, NOT a Science. You must master the control by skills and not by knowledge alone. |
04-06-2008, 08:26 PM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: B.C., Canada
Posts: 1,876
| | | I've had D for only (almost) three years. Diagnosed type 1 at 35.
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Happiness isn't getting what you want.....
It's wanting what you've got.
Last A1C - 5.9
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04-06-2008, 08:34 PM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Royal Oak, Michigan
Posts: 844
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Originally Posted by JediSkipdogg  Gotcha beat Molly....25 years and diagnosed at 11 months old. |
24 years, age 2 at diagnosis
Does that make us almost tied? I was always "proud" to have it the longest out of everyone I knew...then I joined DF and realized I'm no where near the longest!
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Type 1 Est.1984
MM 722 and CGMS
Humalog & Symlin
a1c 6.8 (5.12.08) 7.2 (6.26.08) woops!
Vitrectomies 5/07 & 7/07
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04-06-2008, 08:38 PM
| | Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Long Island
Posts: 143
| | | 40 years this Wednesday, age 11 (almost 12) at diagnosis
Guess I could be considered elderly in terms of the big D
__________________  Anne
Diagnosis: April 9, 1968
Pump (508): September 2001
522 + Sensor: February 18, 2008  |
04-06-2008, 08:48 PM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Kansas, US
Posts: 946
| | | DXed at age 28; coming up on one year since DX. Considering how I was at DX (A1c of 12.9%, DKA, had been feeling awful for a long time), I can only speculate when I actually became diabetic.
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Eddy
DXed 2007/04 = advanced-stage DKA, A1c of 12.9%, and BMI of 21.3
post-DX A1c = 5.4% @ 2008/07; 5.2% @ 2008/04; 5.3% @ 2007/12; 5.3% @ 2007/08
c-peptide = 0.0% @ 2008/07
current BMI = 26.0 (86kg on 182cm); want to get back to 23-24
basal = 2U human N @ 0630, 4U detemir @ 0630, 8U detemir @ 1130, 19U detemir @ 2030
bolus = 1:15 I:C ratio; varying mix of aspart, human R, human N
not a low-CHO eater... not even close!
last updated 2008/07/22
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04-06-2008, 09:45 PM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Posts: 1,845
| | | 30 years, age 21 at the time.
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In my humble opinion  
Type1 since 1977
MDI using Lantus, Protophane, Novorapid and Actrapid
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04-06-2008, 09:49 PM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Universe, Planet Earth :P
Posts: 925
| | | 3.5 years, i was 18 years old, turned 19 just days after diagnose...
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22 years old, diagnosed T1D on october 14th 2004.
On MDI, Novorapid and Levemir, using the NP4 
Currently back to pumping with my IR1200, April 2008.
Been using D-tron and Animas IR1200 but prefer the pen  |
04-07-2008, 04:00 AM
| | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: UK
Posts: 774
| | Diagnosed aged 4 1/2, 43 yrs with type 1 diabetes.
No complications either 
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Sue
Pumping using bovine insulin. (Pump kindly donated by Solox)
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04-07-2008, 04:06 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 959
| | | 23 years. 15 years old at the time of dx. |
04-07-2008, 04:10 AM
| | Member
I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: South Africa
Posts: 188
| | | 4 years, age 52 at diagnosis |
04-07-2008, 05:18 AM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 21
| | | Diagnosed 1961 at age 8. So 47 years. |
04-07-2008, 05:25 AM
| | Member
I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: RURAL NSW AUSTRALIA
Posts: 204
| | Hi
I was diagnosed just before I turned 21 that was 26 years ago.
__________________ Take care from Alicat61
Meds Byetta 10mgs twice day Started on 1st Feb 2008) Working well for me
Humalog 3 x day
Lantus daily
Metformin 1gm 3x a day
Aticand 32mg daily
Propranalol 40 mgs 2 x a day
150 mg aspirin daily (I need to have shares in my chemist shop) |
04-07-2008, 05:30 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Hastings Melbourne Australia
Posts: 2,553
| | Quote:
Originally Posted by MollyM15 How long have you had Diabetes for? How old were you when you were diagnosed??? | I have been a diabetic for 37 years and diagnosed in 1971.
I was aged 11 and in ballet. 
__________________ We inject to stay alive!!! So that i can enjoy what you enjoy!!!  A1C for July '08 5.9 MMOL/L
Peter... Insulins Novorapid and Levemir.
So I am well armed to enjoy food of any kind!!!  |
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