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12-13-2004, 08:20 PM
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Nowadays ppl of any age can be Dx'ed with Type 1, whereas years ago it was supposedly rare to see anyone over the age of 20 with "Juvenile Diabetes" (hence the term).
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12-13-2004, 08:49 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Sacramento, CA
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| | Once again I only exist to prove Shy right! 
Dx T1 at age 35, Feb 2004. If you go by mental age, then I do fall in the juvenile catagory!
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12-13-2004, 09:15 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Kentucky, USA
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| | | Diagnosed on October 23rd, 2003, at 15. I'm 16 now!
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12-13-2004, 09:25 PM
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| | | Wow Mark, on your birthday? That stinks!
I was in the ER dxd on April 20, 1999 (watching Columbine unfold on the tv) at the age of 22. |
12-13-2004, 09:43 PM
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| | | I was Dx'ed at the age of 28
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12-13-2004, 09:48 PM
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Originally Posted by koblenz Once again I only exist to prove Shy right!
Dx T1 at age 35, Feb 2004. If you go by mental age, then I do fall in the juvenile catagory! | LMAO. So what is your mental age koblenz? :smartass:
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12-14-2004, 06:49 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Land of Enchantment
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| | | Well, so far looks like I was oldest when dx'd, 37 which is about the top age for TI unless it is drug or alcohol related.
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Type I 22 years, pump for 5 1/2 years,
now Lantus and Humalog
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12-14-2004, 08:28 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: North Carolina
Posts: 288
| | | I was 8 years old and cried my little heart out. Didn’t under stand why I needed to go in an ambulance to the hospital. Very scary and the thought that I wasn’t able to eat bubble gum any more that terrified me.... |
12-14-2004, 09:28 AM
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I was Dianosed in August this yr and had just turned 49 
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12-14-2004, 09:31 AM
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I was dianosed at age 49 with type 1 & was not drug or alchol related
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12-14-2004, 10:14 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Ontario Canada
Posts: 3,213
| | I was diagnosed Type 1 at 3 yrs. old.
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12-14-2004, 11:45 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Knoxville, TN
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| | | Dx Type 1 at 10 years old in 1974.
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12-14-2004, 02:19 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Hogwarts, Hobbiton, the Galactic Milieu &Ks when I have to be here
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KrisinNM
Well, so far looks like I was oldest when dx'd, 37 which is about the top age for TI unless it is drug or alcohol related.
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Shalyndria
Nowadays ppl of any age can be Dx'ed with Type 1, whereas years ago it was supposedly rare to see anyone over the age of 20 with "Juvenile Diabetes" (hence the term).
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Dana
I was dianosed at age 49 with type 1 & was not drug or alchol related | I don't drink or do drugs either, Dana, more nonsense fed to the public.
Might be like the people who believe in Area 51 and little silver people sacrificing cows.
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12-14-2004, 02:48 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Garland Tx
Posts: 630
| | | ya, my docs were shocked at me getting T1 @ 23... they said I should have gotten it sooner...
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Last A1C - 9 Type 1 Rider Want to Feel Better? |
12-14-2004, 05:56 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Mid-West
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| | Was diagnosed in 1982, at age 9 (just two weeks before my 10th birthday...). I always joke about how it was an early "birthday present," LOL!  :p
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