{"id":383,"date":"2014-04-30T13:55:37","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T13:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/types-1-are-finally-getting-type-2\/"},"modified":"2014-04-30T13:55:37","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T13:55:37","slug":"types-1-are-finally-getting-type-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/types-1-are-finally-getting-type-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Types 1 are finally getting Type 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s tough some times being a Type 2 diabetic (if I am).&#160; Yes, I look like the typical Type 2 \u2013 I have been struggling with my weight for most of my adult years, even though I\u2019m physically active.&#160; In fact, if you look at me, you don\u2019t realize I put in at least an hour every day at the gym, mostly doing cardio.<\/p>\n<p>I have a lot of attributes of Type 1 \u2013 we tried Type 2 drugs, but they didn\u2019t work.&#160; I\u2019m definitely insulin dependent.&#160; In fact, I use an insulin pump with a CGMS and a diabetes alert dog.&#160; I have hypoglycemia unawareness.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>My father and his parents all were diagnosed with diabetes and died of cardio-vascular compliments.&#160; Not only is there a genetic component here \u2013 but we were all raised eating the same diet.&#160; Fortunately we started changing that diet in the 80\u2019s but the damage was done.<\/p>\n<p>My problems are aggravated by sleep apnea, caused by breaking my jaw when I was 19.&#160;&#160; I am subject to extreme sleep disruption due to it and restless leg syndrome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s tough some times being a Type 2 diabetic (if I am).&#160; Yes, I look like the typical Type 2 \u2013 I have been struggling with my weight for most of my adult years, even though I\u2019m physically active.&#160; In fact, if you look at me, you don\u2019t realize I put in at least an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","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=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}