[kindletheflame]

I was diagnosed in October 1991 at the age of 9. Mom took me to the doctor because I'd been drinking so much and losing weight, and we were sent to the lab for blood tests and then got a phone call saying to go directly to the hospital. No idea what my blood sugar was at the time. I spent four days in the hosptial.

Spent my first 8 years of diabetes on two shots a day of Toronto (what we call R insulin here in Canada) and NPH, then replaced Toronto with Humalog when it became available and did that (still only two shots a day) for another 7 years. Then I finally switched to MDI with Humalog and Lantus when Lantus became available in Canada. Used that regimen for about a year and a half before moving onto the pump (mostly because of major dawn phenomenon problems), and have been pumping for the past three and a half years.

[shyun623]

Hello
I'm Su Hyeon Kim. I'm Korean.
I have a English name. It is "Sera".
(if you'll be ok, you could call me, "sera".)

I'm 23 years old.
I have had type 1 diabetes for 16 yrs.
I was diagnosed in December 1994 at the age of 7.

the begining of diseases, I don't had acknowledged my diseases. so, I'd got crooked.
I'd eaten sweet stuff, not insulin injection, and..... the other things...

so, I have some complications. example... retinolpathy, hypertension, forgetfulness for so many hypoglycemia... and etc...

but, I correct errors after come complications. and Now! I get better than the past. My HbA1c is 6-7%(almost 6%...).

anyway, I'm glad to meet you. ^^

[dano]

My name is Danny and I have had Type II diabetes for 12 years. Since September of 2009 I had been fighting very high blood sugars eventhough I was taking basal injections of insulin. I was tasked by my very good friend, and my Doctor (12/22/09), to get this under control as my condition had changed and I was now Type 1.5 with a HGbA1c of 11.3%. Some of you may know this condition as late blooming Type 1 or Latent Autoimmune Diabetes of Adults (LADA). I did all the research for this condition and wrote an Excel spreadsheet for calculating insulin requirements for injections, based primarily on current weight and carb intake for multiple daily injections (MDI) of the bolus dosage. I have used the GlucoseBuddy App along with several other Apps for weight loss, carb counting and exercise to lower my A1c's to 6.9% (03/29/2010) and I expect this percentage to be in the mid 5% range at my next office visit. With all of this information at my fingertips it appears that I have my diabetes in the best control, that I have seen, since I started this regimen. I thought that it was probably time for me to post this information here, since we basically all have the same condition.

[bthornby]

Hi everyone, my name is Bill and I've been diabetic since I was 13. I remember that at school I couldn't wait for the bell to ring so I could run to the bathroom, come out to drink the water fountain dry and run to class. It was just after Christmas break that I went to the hospital and got out after the dogwoods had bloomed.
Now I've retired after over 30 years in education, traveled all over europe on several trips, even lived in Salzburg for three months.
The way I have managed my diabetes is to try and make the very best decision I can with every choice I make. I ask a lot of questions and have changed doctors who could not provide answers. I feel my doctor and I are a team and we both need to be on the same page.
The hardest part of diabetes is that people are very complex organisms, life is always changing so that no two days are exactly the same. Managing diabetes is hard, hard work. The rewards for me are my kids, my grandkids and the freedom to travel and enjoy life as best as I can.

[kmadson]

Hey... yeah these stories all sound pretty familiar... It was before my 7th birthday that I went in to the doctors office where they told me that my blood sugars were in the 300s. I went to the hospital and come to find out they had misread my blood sugars and was in fact hovering around 1200... I had lost 20 pounds as a 7 year old (my parents just thought i was a skinny kid ha!) and got to spend 3 days in the Intensive care unit and then another 3 in the regular hospital... I am 22 now and have been on the pump for 8 years now... I cant remember the last time I have had an A1C over 7, and the pump has changed my life.

[cardio-thoracic]

Yeah, I had a pre-diabetes stressor too. For me it was a burst appendix. Got it in 2005 at age 13. I spent a year in hospitals in France, Germany and the UK. I started with Humalog and Lantus but they didn't get my blood sugar low enough so I switched to novorapid and Levemir and I have been on them ever since. I think that they should look into the pre-diabetes stressor thing to try and prevent it from happening.

[leeard]

I was diagnosed in 1981. All I remember is being sick for about a couple of weeks and losing a lot of weight. I went from 120 to 89 pounds. Been treating it with R and N insulin ever since.

Recently had a heart attack and bypass surgery (last month) and figured my new Dr would change my trearment but all he did was change my NPH dosage and give me a modified sliding scale for my R

[tracy.oathout]

I was diagnosed December of 1983 I was 7 years old. When I was rushed into the er my bs were 1179 I was in a coma for 7 days. I have had a triple bypass at 29, a heart stent pit in when I was 30, in 2003, and the most recent in 2008 a kidney transplant. Diabetes is a hard diease so to All I wish good health.

[grahambartle71]

I was diagnosed in 1971 at the age of 3, wasn't too bad (i think) as my father had been Type 1 for a number of years so my family had experience to fall back on.

[jacyl]

I am a small person. I'm a 23 year-old female at 5'1" 106 lbs. I was 89 lbs when I was admitted to the hospital Jan 11th this year. I had lost all that weight and was feeling utterly horrible when I told my husband to take me to the ER. My blood sugar was 790 and I stayed for 3 days. I'm getting the pump next month, I'm so excited!