{"id":183697,"date":"2010-01-15T10:16:10","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T15:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/type-2-diabetes\/47652-looking-for-opinions-metformin.html"},"modified":"2010-01-15T10:16:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T15:16:10","slug":"looking-for-opinions-metformin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/183697","title":{"rendered":"Looking for Opinions &#8211; Metformin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I had my doctor&#8217;s appointment the other day, but it wasn&#8217;t with my normal PCP due to some poor scheduling of the office staff.  I was planning to ask my PCP what he thought about me coming off of the Metformin assuming my A1c was good.  It was, but since I wasn&#8217;t with my normal PCP, I brought it up with this other doctor.<\/p>\n<p>He acknowledged that I&#8217;d made incredible strides toward controlling, but recommended that I not stop taking the meds.  He said that he thought I should stay on them to continue resting my pancreas, so that I don&#8217;t strain my body any further.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I wanted to see what you guys thought.  He also suggested that I ask my normal doctor, and I feel like I should still give my PCP a call to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;d still like to come off of the meds, I guess I feel like it would give me more incentive to continue doing right by myself to know that I don&#8217;t have anything but my own behavior to fall back on.  I don&#8217;t want to, though, if it&#8217;s going to put any undue strain on the body.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve come a long way, but I realize I still have a long ways to go.  I still have a good 50 pounds that I need to lose, I&#8217;m still trying to get into a good exercise routine, and my cholesterol was still slightly elevated.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry about the long post, but what say you?<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had my doctor&#8217;s appointment the other day, but it wasn&#8217;t with my normal PCP due to some poor scheduling of the office staff. I was planning to ask my PCP what he thought about me coming off of the Metformin assuming my A1c was good. It was, but since I wasn&#8217;t with my normal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183697","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\/393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}