{"id":174470,"date":"2010-01-13T10:06:58","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T15:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/type-2-diabetes\/47582-fasting-numbers-creeping-up.html"},"modified":"2010-01-13T10:06:58","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T15:06:58","slug":"fasting-numbers-creeping-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/174470","title":{"rendered":"Fasting numbers creeping up&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Hi,<br \/>\n   I was first diagnosed in mid November &#8211; my fasting BG number at diagnosis was over 300. I immediately began exercisig every day, changed my diet, am on 2x500mg Metformin, and have lost a bunch of weight. My fasting numbers steadily decreased, and seemed to level off in the mid<br \/>\n90&#8217;s. My liver function tests, triglycerides et al made remarkable improvements in a very short time, and in short, I was feeling very good about an extremely fast turnaround.<br \/>\n    The past 2 weeks, however, my fasting BG numbers have been steadily creeping up, with a high this morning of 114. I have religiously maintained my diet and excercise regimen &#8211; no spurges &#8211; and can&#8217;t think of anything that would have changed,<br \/>\n     My question to the group &#8211; since I am a newbie &#8211; is this a bad trend? Or are there some cyclical ups and downs over a period of weeks that are to be expected, especially at this early stage of trying to get things under control?<br \/>\n        Thanks,<br \/>\n                    Phil<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I was first diagnosed in mid November &#8211; my fasting BG number at diagnosis was over 300. I immediately began exercisig every day, changed my diet, am on 2x500mg Metformin, and have lost a bunch of weight. My fasting numbers steadily decreased, and seemed to level off in the mid 90&#8217;s. My liver function [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174470","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}