{"id":170625,"date":"2010-01-12T13:49:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T18:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/type-2-diabetes\/47551-what-kind-of-doctor.html"},"modified":"2010-01-12T13:49:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T18:49:48","slug":"what-kind-of-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/170625","title":{"rendered":"what kind of doctor???"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A bit of background.  I was diagnosed T2 in October 2009 and have been seeing a diabetes educator\/nurse practitioner since then.  She has me on Byetta (10) two times a day, 1000mg metformin twice a day and now has added Levemir 10 units at night (this was just added last week).  <\/p>\n<p>Along with my low carb diet and the meds, my fastings dropped quickly from 290 down to the low 200&#8217;s but now they are just sitting there no matter what I eat.  My post meals are ok but not the greatest (usually in 160&#8217;s-180&#8217;s).  I try different foods with different carb intakes and get the same results.<\/p>\n<p>I talked with her yesterday about playing with the levemir dose to see if we can get things changing and she said I have to be on it for a full month before she can change the dose and then it would only be to 15 units at bedtime.  <\/p>\n<p>Should the levemir already be showing signs of working after a few days?  If not, should I be concerned that I&#8217;m still sitting here with high fastings and sugars in general and she won&#8217;t budge for another month?  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m feeling like she isn&#8217;t agressive enough with my treatment.  Should I be seeing my general doctor or should I push to see an endo?  I am so frustrated that she is moving so slowly while more damage is being done to my body with these high readings!<\/p>\n<p>Help me please!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of background. I was diagnosed T2 in October 2009 and have been seeing a diabetes educator\/nurse practitioner since then. She has me on Byetta (10) two times a day, 1000mg metformin twice a day and now has added Levemir 10 units at night (this was just added last week). Along with my low [&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-170625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170625","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=170625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}