{"id":140323,"date":"2010-01-05T09:54:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T14:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/type-2-diabetes\/47259-numbers-quality-life-making.html"},"modified":"2010-01-05T09:54:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T14:54:48","slug":"numbers-quality-of-life-making-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/140323","title":{"rendered":"Numbers, quality of life, making changes"},"content":{"rendered":"
I finally got an appointment with an endo for later this month so I have been rethinking some things based on my readings here. <\/p>\n

I started in January 09 with a new doc who put me on Actos. (I had tried metformin and glucphage but they made me sick so I stopped and didn’t do anything for a couple of years). It was obvious the Actos didn’t do much for my A1c numbers immediately so she doubled the dosage. Meanwhile I didn’t change my eating habits at all. That didn’t do much so she suggested insulin. I asked her if we could try Januvia.<\/p>\n

So with Januvia and a diet change, my A1c went from 11 to 7. I stopped taking the Actos on my own. I just found myself gaining more weight and I didn’t want to live with that.<\/p>\n

Then life hit and for the next 6 months I had numerous stresses and stopped eating right and forgetting to take my meds.<\/p>\n

So here I am today trying to get back on track, testing and eating better. I have brought my FBGs down from 200 to 140 in the past couple of weeks. I am back on Actos & Januvia, but to be honest, changing my diet has had the greatest impact on my numbers. Last month when I went to the doc, she was pushing insulin again and made the referral to the endo.<\/p>\n

I know numbers are important in determining where I am and how I am doing. But I also know the numbers depend a lot on me and what I eat. I’m concerned about my quality of life on insulin and if I decide to try it, will I become dependent on it, plus I don’t like self injecting. It is hard enough doing the pricks daily. I literally have to brace myself for a simple prick and this feeling gets worse as time goes on.<\/p>\n

But on the other hand, I understand some people lose weight on insulin (this is so very important to me) and my numbers should become normalized rapidly.<\/p>\n

My overall philosophy has been to just allow myself the time and opportunity to eat better and not opt for the quick fix which may or may not be artificial. I would rather teach myself to eat better than inject insulin and eat what I want. <\/p>\n

On the other hand, the concept of letting my pancreas rest with the insulin seems like it would have some great health benefits long term.<\/p>\n

I welcome your experiences and thoughts. My goal for myself is to take care of myself and eventually get off all meds.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finally got an appointment with an endo for later this month so I have been rethinking some things based on my readings here. I started in January 09 with a new doc who put me on Actos. (I had tried metformin and glucphage but they made me sick so I stopped and didn’t do […]<\/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-140323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140323","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=140323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}