{"id":213018,"date":"2010-01-22T14:04:46","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T19:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/type-2-diabetes\/47906-great-doctors-visit.html"},"modified":"2010-01-22T14:04:46","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T19:04:46","slug":"great-doctors-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/213018","title":{"rendered":"Great doctor&#8217;s visit !"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I will update my siggy shortly but I went to see my primary doc this morning. A month ago I had labs after a very stressful 6 month period where I moved twice, suffered some financial setbacks, broke up with a long time boyfriend &#8211; all kinds of drama ! So I had been neglecting my health, taking my meds sporadically and definitely not eating right.<\/p>\n<p>Well, my a1c was not so bad as I thought &#8211; 7.9 ! For the past month I have been eating so much better and been on top of my meds so things will be getting even better.<\/p>\n<p>The best news of all is that I got medical clearance for my surgery ! All I need now is the insurance company to give approval.<\/p>\n<p>I am going back on Simvastatin because my doc is convinced my tiredness is due to the anemia (I stopped taking it because I thought it made me exhausted). I got her to reduce the Actos because I have feet swelling and leg cramps at night. The only thing she said that irked me was that diabetes is progressive and despite making improvements in my life, it will still just get worse. Eh ? Whatever, I am still going to eat better and take care of myself and hope I can get off these meds one day. \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will update my siggy shortly but I went to see my primary doc this morning. A month ago I had labs after a very stressful 6 month period where I moved twice, suffered some financial setbacks, broke up with a long time boyfriend &#8211; all kinds of drama ! So I had been neglecting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3099,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213018","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\/3099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}