How Long Have You Had Type 1 Diabetes?

[AmandaD]

30 years next month

 

[Dodo]

50 years. Recently received my gold medal from Diabetes UK. Now I feel like an Olympian!

 

[Eponym]

August 1977; so that's about 39 years. When I first became diabetic, I used glass syringes and the only testing was of urine in test tubes. Needles and syringes were boiled before use and insulin was porcine. I remember being told by nurses not to expect to live much beyond my thirties. Still clinging on...

 

[jessnataliex]

I've had type 1 now for 12 years! It was my 12 year anniversary a couple of days ago! Time has seriously flown!

 

[Robinredbreast]

27 years ago this month, erm I call it a leaving present from my ex !!

 

[clarehayward]

36 years this September. I was 12 when I got it.

 

[Cumberland]

1 month type 1
33 yrs as type 2 (mis diagnosed)
I'm 53

 

[Richard 123]

Diagnosed Dec 23 rd 1952 63 or 64 years ago still going strong thanks to the training from Alder Hey hospital Liverpool

 

[Hannah3003]

7 months...feels like 7 hundred years though