What percent?
Just curious of the people on this site, what percentage of your life have you lived with diabetes?
I've lived with diabetes for 70% of my life. I'm 31 and was diagnosed with Type 1 at the age of 9.
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Permalink Reply by mcleanwick on -
Much of my life. Diagnosed at age 8 and am now 53. What is that? 85%? I was always told I'd be dead by age 25, so I'm happy:)
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Permalink Reply by Ruth on
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I'm 53. Was erroniously diagnosed as type II at 47 and correctly diagnosed as type I at 51. I figure that makes it a little over 11%, or about 3 3/4% that I've been dealing with it correctly. I just wish someone had figured out what type I really was sooner. It has been a lot less stressful dealing with it since I've been treating it correctly.
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Permalink Reply by Natalie ._c- on -
Just to let you know you aren't the only one. I was diagnosed as "probable" NIDDM (old term for T2) when I was 44, and started oral meds (sulfonylureas, which were all that was available) approx. a year later, and by 5 months after that, it was obvious that they weren't working, but I had to beg my doc for insulin. Which worked like magic. Now, I'm 65 (or will be next month!), and still taking that old clear magic, and have had great success with it. Yes, you CAN develop T1 at older ages, and while it may come on more slowly (not always), it's still T1. I think more docs are aware of that nowadays, but they pretty much weren't 20 years ago!
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In the less than two years since I was correctly diagnosed I've met several others that were erroniously diagnosed as type 2 and were later (after varying lengths of frustration and doctors that wouldn't belive that they really were taking their medicines correctly, really eating as few carbs as they said they were, and/or really exercising as much as they said they were) finally tested and found that they were type 1! Before I was properly diagnosed our family doctor put me on long acting insulin when the endocrineologists wouldn't, which helped. I eventually got a referal to a new endocrineologist who really listined to me and believed me. He has a rather brusque manner that I don't normally care for, but I can live with that since I know that he really listens to what I have to say.
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Permalink Reply by DeeJay on -
I was Diagnosed at 10-months-old and I am now 24... so thats about 98-99% of my life??? Im not sure...
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Permalink Reply by Mishi on -
Hello Natalie
My endo DX a lady at the age of 75 last year so you can be any age as you no your self and T1 in japan is very rare as there about 100k to 200k year who are DX and yes its common for endo to get the diagnosis wrong,The other thinking i find is countries who prescribe insulin for T2 and the US is one of worst where thinking is that oral are the only way for treatment of T2,Only about 20% of T2 in the US are given combi treatment or full insulin treatments.
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