{"id":84929,"date":"2009-12-16T08:28:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T13:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/introductions-and-announcements\/46712-new-member-atlanta-here.html"},"modified":"2009-12-16T08:28:53","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T13:28:53","slug":"new-member-from-atlanta-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/84929","title":{"rendered":"New Member from Atlanta here!"},"content":{"rendered":"
Hello everyone. I’ve been reading your threads for several months now and have found them very helpful. Thanks. <\/p>\n

I am a 28 year old, type 1 diabetic that was diagnosed 7\/11\/09. I have a great wife and 18mo. old daughter. I felt very loopy and flu-like that day (and a couple days before) when I went to the UrgentCare. I’ll never forget the doc saying "There’s no easy way to tell you this, but you’re diabetic and in DKA. I can’t release you to your wife, I must call an ambulance." Scary. My sugar was 375 and ketones were 1000+. I knew something was going on for a while, but didn’t know what. After 3 days in the hospital, I was sent home on insulin. <\/p>\n

Now December, I am on a Minimed 722 with CGMS and love it. I use Novolog in the pump with no other meds. I was never given the chance for pills. In September my A1c was 6.9. I didn’t see the rest of the labs (peptide, etc.). I have been working closely with a great team of doctors medtronic trainers, diabetes educators and feel very positive about where I should be with control by summer. <\/p>\n

It’s frustrating sometimes as I think scientifically and can’t get things under control as fast as I would like. However, I know that I can do it eventually and I have made healthy lifestyle changes due to the diagnosis (ones I needed to make anyway), so that is encouraging. I am down from 280lbs. to 220lbs., but the doc say that no matter how much weight I loose, I probably will be on insulin for life. I’m exercising more than I used to but am still having spikes and lows, which I’ll post about in other threads. I guess it took a while to get this way and you can’t fix it overnight, right? <\/p>\n

Thanks for listening and for sharing your knowledge!! I look forward to see you all in the threads!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello everyone. I’ve been reading your threads for several months now and have found them very helpful. Thanks. I am a 28 year old, type 1 diabetic that was diagnosed 7\/11\/09. I have a great wife and 18mo. old daughter. I felt very loopy and flu-like that day (and a couple days before) when I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":486,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84929","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\/486"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}