{"id":112159,"date":"2009-12-29T16:53:06","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T21:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/introductions-and-announcements\/47084-hello-you-happy-holidays.html"},"modified":"2009-12-29T16:53:06","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T21:53:06","slug":"hello-to-you-happy-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/112159","title":{"rendered":"Hello to you &amp; Happy Holidays!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Just signed up.<\/p>\n<p>Glad I found this forum&#8230;looks like a great bunch of folks on here helping each other out!<\/p>\n<p>I am technically still DX&#8217;d with only Metabolic Syndrome and have not done enough in the past to deal with this and am currently dealing with a Kidney scare.<\/p>\n<p>So, this year, in 2010, I want to change that and get serious before IT gets MORE serious.  <\/p>\n<p>Figured it might help to put this in writing to hold myself accountable.<\/p>\n<p>Here is my baseline&#8230;At some point in the future, I expect to look back at this and and be like pffffftttt!!!<\/p>\n<p><b><font size=\"4\">DEC 2009 Labs:<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Weight: 250<br \/>\nHeight: 6&quot;3<br \/>\nAge: Turn 40 in March..ugggh!<\/p>\n<p>Meds: Metformin XR 500mg x 2<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"Red\">A1C:<\/font> 6.3&#8230;controlled, but not good :confused: <\/p>\n<p><b>Base Metabolic Panel:<\/b><br \/>\n<font color=\"Red\">Glucose, Serum:<\/font> 122 \ud83d\ude41 <br \/>\nBUN: 15<br \/>\nCreatinine,Serum: 1.27&#8230;the absolute TOP of the lab&#8217;s ref range:( <br \/>\neGFR: &gt;59&#8230;this is all that is on the lab report, but I calculated estimates myself, using several different equations&#8230;my results ranged from 67 &#8211; 72&#8230;not sure how impaired this is considered and whether it can be improved.:confused: :confused: :confused: <br \/>\nBUN\/Creatinine Ratio: 12<br \/>\nAll others within lab reference range<\/p>\n<p><b>Hepatic Function Panel<\/b><br \/>\nAll results within lab reference range<\/p>\n<p><b>Lipid Panel<\/b><br \/>\n<font color=\"Red\">Cholesterol Total:<\/font> 246<br \/>\n<font color=\"Red\">Triglycerides:<\/font> 524<br \/>\n<font color=\"Red\">HDL:<\/font> 32<br \/>\nThese are just terrible&#8230;hoping for dramatic improvement this year.<\/p>\n<p><b>CBC with Differential Platelet:<\/b>&#8230;nothing abnormal in these<\/p>\n<p><b>Urinalysis Gross Exam<\/b><br \/>\nSpecific Gravity: 1.021<br \/>\nPH: 6.0<br \/>\nAll other NORMAL except&#8230;<br \/>\n<font color=\"Red\">Protein:<\/font> 1+ \ud83d\ude41 <br \/>\nCreatinine, Urine: 205&#8230;still within lab reference range<br \/>\n<font color=\"Red\">Microalbumin, Urine:<\/font> 361.3 \ud83d\ude2e <br \/>\n<font color=\"Red\">Microalbumin\/Creat Ratio:<\/font> 176.2 \ud83d\ude2e <br \/>\n<i>Obviously need to get these checked further, but I&#8217;m hoping it&#8217;s mostly due to dehydration and that this test was an outlier&#8230;Kidneys have always been normal in the past&#8230;this is a bit scary, considering how high it is for the first time.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to the conversation!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just signed up. Glad I found this forum&#8230;looks like a great bunch of folks on here helping each other out! I am technically still DX&#8217;d with only Metabolic Syndrome and have not done enough in the past to deal with this and am currently dealing with a Kidney scare. So, this year, in 2010, 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-112159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112159","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=112159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}