{"id":72144,"date":"2009-12-09T00:28:52","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T05:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/type-2-diabetes\/46503-diagnosed-today.html"},"modified":"2009-12-09T00:28:52","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T05:28:52","slug":"diagnosed-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/72144","title":{"rendered":"Diagnosed today"},"content":{"rendered":"
Hi everyone,
\nI am a 30 year old, overweight male, who was pre diabetic for years. every time I went to the doctors, they would say i should watch my carbs since i was getting close to being pre diabetic. i really did nothing about it. then about 6 months ago the numbers went slightly higher. so on a whim, i bought a blood glucose meter at walgreens on sale. and started to look at my reading. they were high, but never anything above 180. <\/p>\n

fast forward to October 1st, i took my blood glucose reading again and was tired of never seeing the number go up or down. so that was the last time i touched the thing. <\/p>\n

Then this past Saturday i decided to try it again. only because i recently i was really really thristy, and thought maybe the number moved up? saturday night the reading was slightly over 500. that was due to a day of eatting anything and everything, soda, cookies, pasta. But int he morning after a long sleep my number dropped to 350.<\/p>\n

today i went to the doctors since i called him and told him the reading from Saturday and he wanted to see me right away. now he has me on metformin, and says i have type 2. <\/p>\n

I’m quite upset with my self. i can’t believe i did this. i asked the doctor why this happened, and he said my pancreas must have just stopped wanting to make as much insulin as it was for all those years. <\/p>\n

so in response I’ve started to eat simple meals, mostly protein, and veggies with very little sugar if any and low carbs. I’ve also started working out again (3rd day in a row now!)<\/p>\n

I just took my reading and its 420, not a low as i was hoping. <\/p>\n

i have questions, such as what should i do next? am i eatting correctly? how quickly will this metformin start working? what are the chances that i’ll beat this with weight loss and exerise?<\/p>\n

please any an all info is welcome. so far i’ve just been told I’m diabetic and given drugs, and the name of an endocrinologist to see in a few weeks to see how I’m doing. i’m hoping to have some forward progress quickly. what do i do?<\/p>\n

Thanks again for any and all info in advance.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi everyone, I am a 30 year old, overweight male, who was pre diabetic for years. every time I went to the doctors, they would say i should watch my carbs since i was getting close to being pre diabetic. i really did nothing about it. then about 6 months ago the numbers went slightly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":355,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72144","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\/355"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}