{"id":137896,"date":"2010-01-04T22:11:52","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T03:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/introductions-and-announcements\/47252-new-member-hello.html"},"modified":"2010-01-04T22:11:52","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T03:11:52","slug":"new-member-hello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/137896","title":{"rendered":"New Member Hello"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I wanted to say hello. I was diagnosed with Type 2 in 2003. My blood glucose at the time was 503. Being stubborn and not wanting to take medications, I went with exercise, diet and supplementation and eventually maintained an A1c in the 5s for about a year and a half.<\/p>\n<p>Then I slid down the slippery slope of lack of discipline and denial. This November my wife took me to the emergency room as I was an inch away from a coma with DKA. My blood glucose was over 600 and my A1c was 12.5. I also had pnemonia and H1N1.<\/p>\n<p>I spent 9 days in the hospital, lost 23 pounds during the whole sickness and came home on insulin. Lantus for my basal and Novolog for my meals. What a change. No more breakfasts of 2 moon pies and 4 hot dogs. <\/p>\n<p>The insulin seems to be working and my control is better than it has ever been. I am curious if there are any other diabetics that have never experienced a hypoglycemic episode. My blood glucose has never been able to go low enough to trigger one. Even on the insulin, with 3 meals per day and no snacks, which is a suprise to me.<\/p>\n<p>I am told I will always need insulin, but I am not so sure. I have noticed that this forum is full of great information and have learned much already. I look forward to learning more and contributing as well.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to say hello. I was diagnosed with Type 2 in 2003. My blood glucose at the time was 503. Being stubborn and not wanting to take medications, I went with exercise, diet and supplementation and eventually maintained an A1c in the 5s for about a year and a half. Then I slid down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1789,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137896","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\/1789"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}