{"id":3426,"date":"2004-06-15T06:34:21","date_gmt":"2004-06-15T06:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/research-on-tig\/"},"modified":"2004-06-15T06:34:21","modified_gmt":"2004-06-15T06:34:21","slug":"research-on-tig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/research-on-tig\/","title":{"rendered":"Research on Tight Diabetic Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DB's Medical Rants\" href=\"http:\/\/www.medrants.com\/\">DB&#8217;s Medical Rants<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a patient, I know that there is a raging debate among endos as to whether or not tight control is a good thing or bad thing.  <\/p>\n<p>Some of that is up to the individual patient, few patients are as sensitive to insulin and or blood sugar as I am.  Most diabetics and most doctors (my own included), tend to think I&#8217;m nuts.  My doctor at least humors me.<\/p>\n<p>However, I have trouble with my vision when my blood sugar is over 160 &#8230; this is a problem.  I&#8217;m dizzy at 90-110, especially if I have come down from a higher number.  This is a problem too.  And those are just the beginning sympthoms. <\/p>\n<p>But who knows if the tigher control I tend to prefer is better for me in the long run?  I do run the risk of hypoglycemia.  Look at the last week.  If I lose my awareness, I could get into real trouble.<\/p>\n<p>At least now I can point back to some research and maybe more is coming.  It&#8217;s only in the past few years we could even achieve tight control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DB&#8217;s Medical Rants As a patient, I know that there is a raging debate among endos as to whether or not tight control is a good thing or bad thing. Some of that is up to the individual patient, few patients are as sensitive to insulin and or blood sugar as I am. Most diabetics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426","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=3426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}