{"id":167256,"date":"2010-01-11T19:18:19","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T00:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/introductions-and-announcements\/47515-new-from-wisconsin.html"},"modified":"2010-01-11T19:18:19","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T00:18:19","slug":"new-from-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/167256","title":{"rendered":"new from Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Hi everyone,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been reading the forums the past few days and have learned so much.  I decided it&#8217;s time to come out of lurking \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I&quot;m 38 and diagnosed Type 2 October 28, 2009.  My A1C at that time was 10.1 and my FBG was 290.  I started with Byetta twice a day and a month later Metformin (1000 mg two times a day) was added.  Bloodwork last week showed my A1C down to 8.  I know it&#8217;s a big drop downward but I&#8217;m still very stressed that I can&#8217;t get my FBG below 200 most days.  <\/p>\n<p>Friday my nurse practitioner put me on 10 units of levemir at night to help bring sugars down.  I&#8217;ve tested the past 3 mornings and not a bit of change on my FBG.  She won&#8217;t see me for another month and told me to only do the 10 units.  I feel like she is not being agressive enough in helping me get these fasting numbers down.  I&#8217;m looking for advice from people who have been there and how I need to approach this.  I don&#8217;t want to spend another month with such high FBG.  <\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait to check out the forums and read as much as I can from this very educated group of people!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone, I&#8217;ve been reading the forums the past few days and have learned so much. I decided it&#8217;s time to come out of lurking \ud83d\ude42 I&quot;m 38 and diagnosed Type 2 October 28, 2009. My A1C at that time was 10.1 and my FBG was 290. I started with Byetta twice a day and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2573,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167256","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\/2573"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}