{"id":142246,"date":"2010-01-05T18:44:14","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T23:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/type-2-diabetes\/47272-when-you-off-meds.html"},"modified":"2010-01-05T18:44:14","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T23:44:14","slug":"when-you-are-off-meds-and-controlling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/142246","title":{"rendered":"When you are off meds and controlling &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>your diabetes with proper diet, does that mean that you are no longer a diabetic?  BTW I was\/am Type 2.<\/p>\n<p>I lost about 35 lbs and my doc said it was okay to stop my meds since they were keeping my blood sugar too low.  I was taking 1000 mgs of Metformin 2x a day, then 500 mg of Meformin in the morning and 1000 at night until I finally stopped taking meds altogether.  I have been off meds for about 4 or 5 months. I decided recently to cut my calories more to lose more weight, it&#8217;s been less than a week and I have started having trouble with my blood sugar.  My numbers are now dropping. I was keeping a steady 100 &#8211; 105, 106. Now I am dropping to 80-90.  This would be alright except that I am feeling shaky. I&#8217;d hate to waste time seeing my doc if this is nothing, just my body adjusting.  Any thoughts?<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>your diabetes with proper diet, does that mean that you are no longer a diabetic? BTW I was\/am Type 2. I lost about 35 lbs and my doc said it was okay to stop my meds since they were keeping my blood sugar too low. I was taking 1000 mgs of Metformin 2x a day, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1891,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142246","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\/1891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}