{"id":85342,"date":"2009-12-16T13:22:27","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T18:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/introductions-and-announcements\/46723-newbie-in-chicago.html"},"modified":"2009-12-16T13:22:27","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T18:22:27","slug":"newbie-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/85342","title":{"rendered":"Newbie in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Was diagnosed as a type 2 diabetic in October &#8217;09 after complaining of frequent urination\/dry mouth over a 2 week period after a cortisone shot. My blood sugar was 680 and I think my A1c was like 10(will check with the doc tommorow).<\/p>\n<p>I spent a weekend in the hospital being treated and was sent home with Glypizide and Metformin. After two days I was back in the er dehydrated and nauseated. The Metformin was scaled back from 1000 to 500mg&#8217;s a day. After a few days I was back in the er as I was suffering yet more side effects from Metformin and the decision was made by the doc&#8217;s to take me off of it as my Blood Sugar numbers were pretty normal. I go back to the doc tommorow for my 1st A1c check in 3 months. My blood sugar numbers average about 100 since I learned to use the glucometer. I&#8217;ve lost about 15 pounds so far and I have awhole lot to go, lol!<\/p>\n<p>Found this forum as I have been fiending for a hot dog.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was diagnosed as a type 2 diabetic in October &#8217;09 after complaining of frequent urination\/dry mouth over a 2 week period after a cortisone shot. My blood sugar was 680 and I think my A1c was like 10(will check with the doc tommorow). I spent a weekend in the hospital being treated and was sent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85342","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\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}