How old were you when you were diagnosed?

i am 55 and got diagnosed 29th may 2020.i suffered all my life but was to embarased to tell anyone.xmas time this year i started to lose a lot of blood and it keept getting worse every day,but still didnt go till the start of may,i was really bad by this stage and had to go,it took just 3 weeks to get a diagnosis,all my life it would come and go but i just couldnt speak to anyone about it untill now still feel gutted but they were looking at bowel cancer beacause it got so bad and thats why i got diagnosed within 3 weeks.mri,ct magic eye all done in that time,glad its over now and wish i hadnt left it get to this stage 

I was diagnosed when I was about 25. I'm 51 now. UC & Proctitis. Flare ups are mostly managed well with mezalizine. 

I was diagnosed at 18 after a year of undiagnosed symptoms, I’m now 24. I try my best to not let the condition have an effect on my life or stop me from doing anything. I do find it difficult to talk to people about it so there’s very few people in my life who know I suffer from it (family, my partner and only a few close friends). The worst thing about this condition for me is constantly being paranoid/anxious about where the nearest bathroom is when I go out.