{"id":2481,"date":"2005-11-04T01:22:36","date_gmt":"2005-11-04T01:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/count-me-as-one\/"},"modified":"2005-11-04T01:22:36","modified_gmt":"2005-11-04T01:22:36","slug":"count-me-as-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/count-me-as-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Count me as one who loves Symlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Close Concerns\" href=\"http:\/\/www.closeconcerns.com\/\">Close Concerns<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not only have see better A1C&#8217;s since starting insulin, I&#8217;ve done something I haven&#8217;t been able to do without it.<\/p>\n<p>Lose weight.  I&#8217;ve lost around 25 pounds since starting Symlin in June.  I had previously lost around 15 pounds over a year time period, and it was a horrible struggle.<\/p>\n<p>Losing weight on Symlin is extremely easy.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve reduced my daily insulin usage from over 120 units per day to recently around 33 units.  My A1C went from 6.9 to 6.0<\/p>\n<p>I have not gone completely without problems.  With the weight lose comes constant diligence to insure that I don&#8217;t go low.  In fact, I had two hypoglymic events last week.  It&#8217;s taken some time to figure it out, but I&#8217;ve determined that I can no longer dose prior to the meal, but have to dose immediately.  I had been dosing 30 minutes before the meal to avoid a high blood sugar reading post prandial.  We&#8217;re figuring with the weight lose, I&#8217;ve also gotten a reduction in insulin resistance.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve gotten very good at tweaking bolus rates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Close Concerns Not only have see better A1C&#8217;s since starting insulin, I&#8217;ve done something I haven&#8217;t been able to do without it. Lose weight. I&#8217;ve lost around 25 pounds since starting Symlin in June. I had previously lost around 15 pounds over a year time period, and it was a horrible struggle. Losing weight on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-symlin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}