{"id":213019,"date":"2010-01-22T14:03:50","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T19:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/type-2-diabetes\/47905-diabetic-newbie.html"},"modified":"2010-01-22T14:03:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T19:03:50","slug":"diabetic-newbie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/213019","title":{"rendered":"Diabetic Newbie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Hello!  I&#8217;m new at this so please excuse my ramblings and questions.  I was just diagnosed T2 last week.  My A1C was 9.6 and fasting BG was 206.  I have been put on 2000 mg of Metformin (currently just starting the 1000 mg phase).  <\/p>\n<p>This diagnosis was a true scare for me.  My sister has it, my Dad died from its complications (at 62), and most all of my aunts\/uncles\/cousins have it.  At 36 years old, 370 pounds, and my wife expecting our 6th child, I can&#8217;t help but freak out over this.  I&#8217;m afraid of everything from leaving my family behind to over-managing my disease to loosing my feet and everything else in between.  I guess what I&#8217;m looking for is some assurance and\/or comfort.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been testing like mad over this past week, mostly to experiement with what my levels are doing throughout the day.  I have drastically changed my diet from 100-200 g of carbs per meal to &lt; 100 g of carbs per day.  I&#8217;ve lost about 12 pounds and my fasting BG levels were at 146 this morning.  My premeal level is anywhere from 135 to 145 and 2 hour PP is around 150.  Last week, everything was 225 or higher (I peaked at about 280 after a grapefruit).  God himself only knows how high my levels were before I started testing and eating better!<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, my BG levels would spike during exercise, now they drop.  Last night, after supper and a 30 minute walk, it dropped to 104, but then rebounded back to 145 where it presumably stayed all night.<\/p>\n<p>Am I freaking out too early and I just need to calm down?  Is this good progress or should the levels be coming down faster?  What are the signs that would indicate needing insulin therapy (instead of diet\/exercise\/metformin) for control?<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! I&#8217;m new at this so please excuse my ramblings and questions. I was just diagnosed T2 last week. My A1C was 9.6 and fasting BG was 206. I have been put on 2000 mg of Metformin (currently just starting the 1000 mg phase). This diagnosis was a true scare for me. My sister has [&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-213019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213019","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=213019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}