{"id":219623,"date":"2010-01-23T20:55:40","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T01:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/introductions-and-announcements\/47952-new-forum-30-year.html"},"modified":"2010-01-23T20:55:40","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T01:55:40","slug":"new-to-forum-30-year-old-type-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/219623","title":{"rendered":"New to forum, 30 year old type-II"},"content":{"rendered":"
I was diagnosed back in December with an A1C of 13.6 and a glucose level of 350. I’ve been on 1500mg of Metformin a day and eating less carbs (and a lot of nuts), and my reading 20 minutes ago was 125. My A1C last week was 11. Going back to the doctor’s on Tuesday for classes in taking insulin injections.<\/p>\n

In my last year of college, I was 168lbs at a height of 6’1". I tried starting a business several times, but failed, had no health insurance, ended up selling my home (at the peak of the real estate bubble!), used that to pay off my debts, and I kind of went into an over-eating depressive mode for a few years. From 2005 to 2007, I gained over a hundred pounds and peaked at 283lbs. I felt like a fat pig, but I kind of gave up on life and just didn’t care. (I am currently 243 lbs.)<\/p>\n

I then got a full-time job, and went to graduate school at the same time. I was so focused on the job and graduate school that I stopped exercising altogether. I was eating out all the time, treating my body like absolute ****. But by the end of all of this, my body just gave out on me. I was experiencing all kinds of allergies, hallucinations, and every day was just a struggle. I stopped working, kept passing out from all the various medications I was on. I knew what was going on was because I wasn’t taking care of myself, but I just kind of lost the ability to manage things.<\/p>\n

I knew I had problems in 2006, so I went to therapists and doctors. The doctors treated me really poorly, and they said my over-eating was a psychological problem. They did the diabetes tests, didn’t give me any real warnings or anything. I was eating and eating, never feeling satisified. I never got any energy from what I ate, and eventually just started slipping further into the abyss.<\/p>\n

One day, I woke up and half my body was numb. I went to the doctor, found out my triglyceride level was 4000 and my glucose levels were off the charts. I finally found out I was a diabetic.<\/p>\n

I’ve been working on slowly rebuilding life, but today I found out all of my grandparents died of diabetes. None of them had any weight problems — their diets did them in. They had amputations, lost their sight and all died really horrible deaths. I never knew why they died, I just assumed it was old age.<\/p>\n

I haven’t been exercising. I’ve avoided sugar and carbs, but occasionally I will have a little. I’m kind of aimless at the moment, just trying to take it all in.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was diagnosed back in December with an A1C of 13.6 and a glucose level of 350. I’ve been on 1500mg of Metformin a day and eating less carbs (and a lot of nuts), and my reading 20 minutes ago was 125. My A1C last week was 11. Going back to the doctor’s on Tuesday […]<\/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-219623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219623","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=219623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}