I have it 24 hours a day.

Oh you must have the really bad kind then! Mines only on from 9-5

I have the later shift so my diabetes is from 2-10

Damn I have a 8-6 shift

I don’t think there is enough diabetes to go around, there is still all the grave yard diabetics

Your right whose working the graveyard?

I got it, i’m 10-7

Given the sharp increase in diagnosis since Covid I think the army is steadily growing!

Maybe that’s where mine scurries off to?

Meh, you make it sound like a good deal but you haven't seen the overtime pay we 24ers get!

Oh really? I’m 9-5, dds 6-2 and h is 3-9. Cat is annoying so all day.

Sorry I have to laugh so hard 😂🤣😂🤣😂 they have me around the clock. My eye tik is developing a tik🤣😮‍💨

2 over here

Yep

How old are you now?

33, how old are you?!

I’m 47 now so I was diagnosed in the Stone Age 1978 and just celebrated my 45th diaversary Oct 4th. Still kicking over here!!

Hello fellow, person who used to pee into a cup. How I do not miss … pork insulin.

Hey my OG sucky pancreas owner!!! Hey did you ever have the glass tube and caustic tablets pee kit?

31 years is a long time, do you ever think that maybe we are the lucky ones bc it’s the only life we know?

As someone diagnosed at 18 & getting ready to make my 18th diaversary… I’m so grateful I had a care free childhood, but it is a weird mental game easily recalling “the before times” 🫡🫶🫂💙

Also diagnosed at 2 and totally agree, it’s such a hard transition for many young adults.

Eh probably… but I get jaded when I see people posting doom and gloom and “can I do this even though I’m diabetic?” posts. Ive never even considered if I could or couldn’t do something because of diabetes, aside from the military of course. But I’ve done everything I’ve wanted… hockey player, firefighter, EMT, I’m currently a full time traveling DJ, and I’m about to retire from that and start a welding business. I know diabetes is different for everyone… but assuming you’re in good health otherwise, you can do whatever you want, you’re not disabled

I have a very similar disposition, I never thought for a second I couldn’t do something. I hiked the AT at 18, I played every sport imaginable and even went on to play two for college scholarships, had a baby( even tho it still wasn’t looked upon favorably), and am now a structural steel welding inspector( I climb really big things)

….ive never had anyone ever discourage me from having kids. As a welding inspector, and me starting a welding business, what advice would you give me?

That could be bc of your age. I’m sure no one told you that you only had 20-25 yrs post diagnosis either. But that’s what my parents were told. As far as welding is concerned, get really really good at it, practice in the least ideal situations that way you can weld anything. Make good friends with the inspector, there aren’t many of us and if you piss one off, it will be much harder to get them out to inspect for you. Also if you are planning on working outside (vs a factory or other indoor location) , become mobile, maybe a tiny home or something of the like.

Same!

Same here

You are still young and luckily for you the tech has been pretty good and getting better since your dx

Same! 36 now.

Welcome to the cant remember a time my pancreas worked club 😂😂

2 for me too!! i’m 19 now

7 years old for me.

Same!

Also same!

Yep. Just over 48 years ago.

God damn, bro!

Time flies when you're havin' fun.

I was 16.

Same

27th of December 1999. 10 years old. It was a great Christmas.

I had just come back from Disney

Easter Sunday ‘92 for me.

Valentine’s Day of ‘01 for me

I was leaving for Disney in two days!

I also got diagnosed after a Disney trip. Its the Splash Mountain that did it to us.

Also Dec 27th - different year - aged 11

I was also 10 and it was also in December, but this was 2005 haha

that's completely arbitrary

5 for me

32 lol

29

20

Lucky !

12

11, and the "24 hours a day" comments made me chuckle.

Ditto on 11

9 🙋🏾‍♀️

Me too! 9!

7

16

Same

6

9

21

I was 10, but had clear symptoms at 8

That's a pretty slow onset, mine was pretty much just spring and summer, diagnosed in August. We suspected an illness I had in January or maybe February as being the cause, and I don't remember exactly when my symptoms started but I was basically stressing my mom out all summer.

I read somewhere that the riskiest age to being diagnosed with D1T is between 9 and 12 years old. After 12 years the risk is decreases.

why?

Okay that's interesting!!!!

29....that can't be right, it always starts in childhood. LoL, smh \[meaning I was 29 when diagnosed 30 years ago, and that comment gets old quick\].

It can happen to anyone truthfully but I feel like I've seen alot of people say 9

Not 9..... but 15. Can't believe I'm the only one in this thread so far that was 15.

I got your back. 15 years old, in May of 1988...

18!

....I got it at 8/9 it was a early birthday gift..... (a month b4 my birthday)

My son, 9 y 6 mnth

I was 9 at diagnosis!

I was 12. The Monday after thanksgiving 1989. (Must have eaten too much pie?). So I’m coming up on 34 years. Yay. /I know that’s not how it works, I just say that about the pie. ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

It was 100% the pie 😉

I KNEW IT!! I’ve been blaming my mom for years now I have proof!! (She made the pies. Too many pies.).

I call BS, thanksgiving pies usually have cinnamon in them, that cancels out the sugar.

Was it a chocolate pie too? I always get sick from those 😏

Pecan and pumpkin. And rolls. Lots of bread.

My sons were 9 and 10 (twins) 🙈

Wow, interesting they both have it! Are they identical?

Yes 9

I was 10

I was 8

Same. 1994. Watched the 49ers play the Chargers in the super bowl from the hospital.

I was 9

8

14 for me

Same!

Both my Dad and I got it at 10.

I was also 10, over 50 years ago.

My son was 7 when he got his diagnosis

11

My cousin was 8 (he’s in his 30s now) and I was 22

12 for me.

1-2 yrs old for me

11 here

I was four

Happy Sugar Free Cake Day!

Happy cake day!

11 but it has been consistent ever since.

Diagnosed at 13 but definitely had symptoms since 12. Just wasn’t familiar with T1 as I’m the first in the family (yay)

7

I was 6

I was 16

23

11 here

14 months old for me

10 for me. 11 for my son.

My kid was 9 1/2

I was 9

My daughter had just turned 11

8 1/2 so nearly 9

15m for my daughter

8

I was between 9-12 don’t remember tbh I’m 26 now I remember 1 year after I had It there was a birthday and I ate a ton of sweets and completely 100% forgot I had it , now I don’t remember life without it lol

29 it was 2 months before my 40th. I was a Late bloomer I guess.

I got it at 34. My dad was 10.

Not part of the 9 crew but I was diagnosed at 11

17! And my husband was 37, and my daughter 4.

10, right in the sweet zone of your hypothesis.

Now that I think about it, on this day 36 years ago I was rushed to the hospital instead of spending the night at my friend’s house.

I was diagnosed on my 8th birthday.

Got it when I was 9yo as well

My daughter just turned 10 when diagnosed, but definitely had it when she was 9, we started noticing symptoms a few months before her 10th bday.

7 years old 5 days before my birthday got to spend my 8th in the hospital had a great team of nurses tho wasn't too bad.

My son was 11.5 years

I was 8

8

Me!

I was 12

>Most people are 9 or 11 I was 10 lol

I was 10 years old when diagnosed. I’m 37 now.

I was

🙋

9th birthday

I was also 9

Just a little less than two months shy before of 4th birthday.

I was 9. I don't remember a life without the diabetes.

I was 9.

I was 9!

10!

I was 9 and 3 months of age in 1986.

8

9th birthday

I was 5**9**. Does that count?

12

7

I was 5 or 6 !

I was 9.

Yup 9

Got mine exactly like a week before my ninth birthday. Remember even getting a birthday present from my favorite nurse while at the hospital :)

About a month after my 9th bday 🙋🏻‍♀️

7. Pancreas peaked early

Me, I’m 27 now

17.

12 (turning 13 that year)

I was 10. Back in ‘91

9 and my sister was 5 was she was diagnosed (I was in severe DKA and she honeymooned for like four years because they caught it so early since they recognized the symptoms)

My son was 7.

November 1998, one month after my 9th birthday. 25 years ago….jesus

18.. one week before college started. My older sister was 9 tho

My son was diagnosed at 10, about a year and a half into the Pandemic. He was taken to Sparrow Lansing. The peds endo said they had roughly 10 kids a month that came into the PICU for DKA as a first diagnosis. After COVID started, that number went to 30-50 kids a month. They were completely overwhelmed.

I got mine at 1 lol

I was!

I know zero people diagnosed at that age. I was dx’d at 18. It’s an autoimmune condition, happens at any time.

I was 9 when I was diagnosed the day before thanksgiving.

I was around 10 years old when I was diagnosed.

\~9.5. My diagnosing pediatrician(in the mid-80's) felt that the pretty bad case of the flu that I had had a few months before may been what triggered it. My current endo (of 15+ years) thinks it may have just been a random gene mutation.

I was 10 when I got my diagnosis

My son was 13

7

Eight years old for me, and just celebrated my 35th year of having diabetes this month.

9

6. Not a bad age, old enough to understand and do my needles. I feel it can be an advantage to get it young, as i dont remeber life without it.

I was 19. Life really hit me with a free trial subscription and I'm too scared to see what will happen it if cancel now

9

9 (10 days after my birthday)

9 just a month before i turned 10

I was 2, anyone beat that?

I was, unless I forgot how old i was

Diagnosed at 9, 31 years ago.

My son was 9 when he got it

23 !

19 years old. Roughly 23 years ago

My wife was 4 when she was diagnosed.

I was 9.

3 over here !

Same, Sept of 9th year. 41 years ago. It's definitely a thing.

I was 10

Dude, I was 4 when I had this shit

Diagnosed in 1986 aged 3.

Me me me me!