{"id":87502,"date":"2009-12-17T19:37:41","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T00:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/introductions-and-announcements\/46771-greetings-from-the-southwest.html"},"modified":"2009-12-17T19:37:41","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T00:37:41","slug":"greetings-from-the-southwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/87502","title":{"rendered":"Greetings from the Southwest"},"content":{"rendered":"
Hello, everyone,<\/p>\n

I am a 29-year-old woman and I was just diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in early October. Even though I was just recently diagnosed, if I look back on my symptoms, I think it probably has been going on for two years or more. It just took me that long to break down and see a doctor about it.<\/p>\n

I think a variety of things contributed to my diabetes. For starters, yes, I am overweight. Second, most of the adults on my father’s side of the family have type 2 diabetes, including my dad. I guess it hit me at a younger age because of my weight. On top of that, the last two years of my life have been very stressful. I have been out of work and spending a lot of time at home thinking, worrying, being sedentary, and eating junk. I recently read that stress can raise blood sugar levels, so all of these things combined just did me in. <\/p>\n

When I went to the doctor in October, my blood sugar was 250 (after fasting for twelve hours) and my A1C was 9.7. I am now taking 500 mg of metformin once a day, and I walk at least 30 minutes a day, sometimes more if I can. I have lost 16 pounds since then, and my goal is to lose about 50 more and get down to a good BMI. <\/p>\n

Luckily the metformin doesn’t seem to give me any intolerable side effects, at least not so far.<\/p>\n

These days, when I get up in the morning, my blood sugar is around 110, sometimes slightly higher. After I eat, it will sometimes spike up to 170 or so, depending on what I eat. I have gone mostly low carb since my diagnosis, so it’s very frustrating to me to see it go up so high after eating. If I walk after eating, then it will go all the way back down to 100. I get so frustrated with the huge fluctuations, but I guess that is what diabetes is all about, and I am still in the process of learning how to control it. <\/p>\n

I have sacrificed most of my favorite foods and am trying to get used to a low carb diet. I don’t touch bread, crackers, chips, potatoes, bad starches, and of course, nothing made with sugar. The only sugar I do allow myself is a green apple or pear, once a day. My daily apple has now become what candy used to be to me, such a treat. I eat a lot of eggs and raw nuts for snacks. One problem for me is that I do not like meat. In fact, I was a vegetarian for some time, mostly for ethical reasons. I have had to add meat back into my diet and I struggle with that at times.<\/p>\n

Anyway, that’s my story. I am looking forward to talking with everyone here about the ups and downs of the process. I have some concerns at the moment that I will post elsewhere. Nice meeting you all.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello, everyone, I am a 29-year-old woman and I was just diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in early October. Even though I was just recently diagnosed, if I look back on my symptoms, I think it probably has been going on for two years or more. It just took me that long to break down […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":518,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87502","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\/518"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}