{"id":112583,"date":"2009-12-29T20:05:16","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T01:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/diabetes\/47087-could-use-some-help.html"},"modified":"2009-12-29T20:05:16","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T01:05:16","slug":"could-use-some-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/112583","title":{"rendered":"Could use some help"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I joined here in early October after being diagnosed and got some really good help.  I have posted a bit since then but mostly I just read and continue to learn and feel inspired. I was doing pretty well with almost daily exercise, metformin and watching my diet (carbs).  Unfortunately &#8211; though I have not gone absolutely off of the rails &#8211; I ran into some road bumps a few weeks ago and I think that I could use some help in motivating me back into healthy action.  First, I caught a cold and my father was hospitalised right after that.  Rather shockingly, what we thought was a treatable infection rapidly morphed into bacterial pneumonia, he never really got onto the road to recovery, was put on palliative care and died all in the space of seven days.  I actually stayed with him in his room for his last night and I am so thankful that I had that gift.  Anyway, it has been a rough few weeks and I still have the remnants of that cold.  My BS has been higher, my diet much less focused between my dad and Christmas and I hurt my knee and was off exercise for four days over Christmas (as well as a hit or miss week when my dad was dying) so I feel like a mess.  I did switch to Met XR while he was in the hospital because I did not have any meds with me and I had a script for the XR that I got from the doctor back when the regular Metformin was creating gastric havoc for me in early November.  I do find it easier for a few reasons but it is about three times more expensive so I think I will treat myself to three months of the XR and then go back to the regular.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I need to get enthusiastic again.  Right now I am so cold &amp; tired that I do not want to do anything but eat and sleep.  I went back to my treadmill after the injury rest yesterday but I did not do any exercise today and normally I would do it even if I did not feel like it.  I am a little nervous about my slacking&#8230;though I am pretty sure that I will do something tomorrow morning because I have a massage booked for mid-morning and I would feel pretty guilty if I didn&#8217;t work out first.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for listening.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I joined here in early October after being diagnosed and got some really good help. I have posted a bit since then but mostly I just read and continue to learn and feel inspired. I was doing pretty well with almost daily exercise, metformin and watching my diet (carbs). Unfortunately &#8211; though I have not [&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-112583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112583","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=112583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}