At what age were you diagnosed?

Mungobean

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I have just been diagnosed with T1 diabetes at the grand old age of 52, which seems old to me! I am trying to kid myself that I am going through some kind of second youth! Is this unusually old, or do you think this has been going on for some time? At what age were you diagnosed?
 

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Type1 can appear at any age, personally I was 2, but I know when I went on my areas versions of the DAFNE course they said that the oldest person they'd seen diagnosed was 96!

It used to be thought that you only got it when you were young and I think some still think that, but its just not true, you can be any age.
 

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I have just been diagnosed with T1 diabetes at the grand old age of 52, which seems old to me! I am trying to kid myself that I am going through some kind of second youth! Is this unusually old, or do you think this has been going on for some time? At what age were you diagnosed?

54 for me.
 

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I feel young now with my diagnosis at 39! :)
 

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Diagnosed at nearly 18 back in 1979, I know the difference between then and now is like night and day, not only in treatment but in attitude and knowledge , back then I remember doctor telling me that T1 normally happens between 16 and 24, as I said a lot has changed.
 

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I was 9.
My brother (not diabetic) took part in some research (maybe 15 years ago) as a sibling of a person with diabetes looking at genes and they told him if you got to 18 without a diagnosis it was pretty much not going to happen o_O
 

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I was 16 and that was 46 years ago , treatment has changed so much since then and for many years I didn't bother to look after myself , but here I am 62 years old and no complications and feeling great ,
 

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The current speaker of the House of Commons was diagnoses with Type 1 at 62 and Theresa May was diagnosed in her 50s.
Over 50% of people with Type1 are diagnosed over the age of 20 and one in five are diagnosed over the age of 40.
 

Jaylee

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... Pretty much diagnosed on my 8th birthday.
 

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Almost my 1st birthday in 1959.
 

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back then I remember doctor telling me that T1 normally happens between 16 and 24, as I said a lot has changed.
I remember being told it was "under 30" in the late 70s and I was diagnosed at 8 (waves to @Jaylee :)) in 1970. But having a late diagnosed T1 mum meant I got a very early diagnosis.
 

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I remember being told it was "under 30" in the late 70s and I was diagnosed at 8 (waves to @Jaylee :)) in 1970. But having a late diagnosed T1 mum meant I got a very early diagnosis.
I also remember there only being type 1 and type 2
 

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I was 47, I had no idea you could be diagnosed as an adult and knew nothing about T1 diabetes!
 

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I also remember there only being type 1 and type 2
and GD, but I think I was told that that would turn into T1 if you had 3 or more pregnancies (I guess pregnant women were too young to be T2 under the then definitions).
 

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15 or 16 for me I can't remember exactly now, I am now 68 and problems are starting to arrive feet hands and eyes but nothing to bad at the moment