{"id":174101,"date":"2010-01-13T09:33:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T14:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/type-2-diabetes\/47581-insulin-abuse.html"},"modified":"2010-01-13T09:33:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T14:33:48","slug":"insulin-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/174101","title":{"rendered":"Insulin abuse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Hey guys, <\/p>\n<p>To make a long story short a friend of a buddy of mine was out with us for dinner the other night and chit chatting found out he his diabetic, seen him take a shot before he ate.   However he ate like an animal ( wings, nachos,cheese fries&#8230;  The whole 9 yards ). <\/p>\n<p>After eating ( about an hour ) I watched him take his BG reading and then pull out his insulin pen again and give himself another injection. <\/p>\n<p>I asked him what he was on and what his routine is..  He said that he gives himself the standard dose before eating and then depending what he &quot;decides&quot; to eat and how much he gives an additional dose after eating to make up for the intake. <\/p>\n<p>I asked if this was healthy and he said yes he has done it for years, that going on insulin was the best thing for him. &quot;My insurance covers the meds and this way i can eat what i want when i want and not have to worry about it.  Get off the pills if you can&quot;  is what he said to me. <\/p>\n<p>Is this something that people see often?<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey guys, To make a long story short a friend of a buddy of mine was out with us for dinner the other night and chit chatting found out he his diabetic, seen him take a shot before he ate. However he ate like an animal ( wings, nachos,cheese fries&#8230; The whole 9 yards ). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1967,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174101","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\/1967"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}