{"id":192611,"date":"2010-01-18T01:00:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T06:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/type-2-diabetes\/47720-what-type-am-i.html"},"modified":"2010-01-18T01:00:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T06:00:29","slug":"what-type-am-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/192611","title":{"rendered":"What type am I?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A philosophical question&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Do you all figure that once a diabetic, always a diabetic?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not hashing up arguments about &quot;curing&quot; diabetes, but more about progressing and regressing through the disease process. I&#8217;ve more-or-less pushed my numbers into the clear non-diabetic range without meds. My fastings run 85-95, 1pp and 2pp rarely break 100. Frequently I am in the 70-80&#8217;s during the day between meals. I eat a lower carb diet, but this hold true even if I down 100 carbs in one meal (I&#8217;ve only done this maybe 2-3 times in 9 months). Now I was clearly in the diabetic range at diagnosis with A1C of 9.6 (although I may have suffered from residual insulin resistance following a long course of steroids).<\/p>\n<p>I will always be a tremendous risk to return to those numbers, but I&#8217;ve only improved in blood glucose control over the past 9 months &#8211; demonstrating I am not progressing. I still have ~50 lbs to lose (down ~20lbs) which might certainly improve my metabolism further. <\/p>\n<p>Philosophically speaking&#8230;.. should I say I am type II diabetic or pre-diabetic? Does it matter?<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I don&#8217;t post much, but I follow threads pretty regularly. I must say that much of my success has been from having the support of the DF community. I have many family members who are type IIs and they have little drive to remit the disease or manage it strictly&#8230;. it nice to be among those who do. Thanks!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A philosophical question&#8230;&#8230; Do you all figure that once a diabetic, always a diabetic? I&#8217;m not hashing up arguments about &quot;curing&quot; diabetes, but more about progressing and regressing through the disease process. I&#8217;ve more-or-less pushed my numbers into the clear non-diabetic range without meds. My fastings run 85-95, 1pp and 2pp rarely break 100. Frequently [&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-192611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192611","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=192611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}