{"id":145690,"date":"2010-01-06T13:40:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T18:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/type-2-diabetes\/47304-im-thinking-i-want.html"},"modified":"2010-01-06T13:40:04","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T18:40:04","slug":"im-thinking-i-want-more-met","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/145690","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m thinking I want more Met?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>When I was dx my Ac was 7.7 (Sept 09) In Nov 09 I took a free A1C at Walgreens &amp; got a 6.4. Yesterday I had the blood test done for the A1c for my Pcp, who I go to see next week. I&#8217;m thinking it will be somewhere between 6 &amp; 6.5 based on my 30 day meter averages. I have no doubt she will be happy with that, but I&#8217;m not.<br \/>\n Its my morning readings that are the killer, they are too high, this morning it was 150 &amp; yesterday it was 146, same as at midnight, (bedtime). I am restricting carbs, eating between 50 to 100 a day, some days probably under 50. &amp; I don&#8217;t think I have the willpower to restrict them anymore, at least for any length of time. walk every evening for 30 minutes, &amp; that is about all I can do too, with my other health issues. So I feel more meds is the way to go to get lower numbers, <br \/>\nI&#8217;m wondering whether to ask for Met 750 daily or stay on the 500 Met &amp; get another add on. <br \/>\nAny opinions?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was dx my Ac was 7.7 (Sept 09) In Nov 09 I took a free A1C at Walgreens &amp; got a 6.4. Yesterday I had the blood test done for the A1c for my Pcp, who I go to see next week. I&#8217;m thinking it will be somewhere between 6 &amp; 6.5 based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":321,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145690","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\/321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}