{"id":106594,"date":"2009-12-27T19:50:42","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T00:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/type-1-diabetes\/47019-how-long-would-i.html"},"modified":"2009-12-27T19:50:42","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T00:50:42","slug":"how-long-would-i-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/106594","title":{"rendered":"How long would I have?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I don&#8217;t know if this question has ever been asked before&#8230;so, my apologies if it&#8217;s repetitive. I got to thinking about all the adjustment-type of regimens that diabetics are saddled with; the actual need, the life dependence on an item someone produces to keep you alive has humbled me. These past 6 months since I was diagnosed with Type 1 DM, my travels have been about learning. Never, until today, had I pondered the thought of what would happen if my insulin stopped. The supply of it, what if that stopped. <\/p>\n<p>Never thought of that, before. So, here&#8217;s a question, if I may? How long would I have? I mean, how long would I have to look for more insulin? I imagine that would need some variables like carbohydrate intake per day, how much insulin I inject a day, something else? 27 units keeps me fine for around 150 carb&#8217;s a day. That, I imagine I&#8217;d have lower quite quickly. All I&#8217;ve ever really &quot;needed&quot; to survive was food. That&#8217;s changed.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if this question has ever been asked before&#8230;so, my apologies if it&#8217;s repetitive. I got to thinking about all the adjustment-type of regimens that diabetics are saddled with; the actual need, the life dependence on an item someone produces to keep you alive has humbled me. These past 6 months since I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}