{"id":616940,"date":"2009-12-30T14:26:17","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T19:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/introductions-and-announcements\/47108-newbies.html"},"modified":"2009-12-30T14:26:17","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T19:26:17","slug":"newbies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/616940","title":{"rendered":"Newbies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Whenever I have joined a forum before on any subject I have been told I am in the wrong place. So I formally apologise now.<\/p>\n<p>I will also say hello as I joined the forum today. I was newly diagnosed diabetic on Christmas eve. I have been coming ill for quite a while and took it to be my Thyroids which are also on the blink.<\/p>\n<p>The doctor has put me on Metform 500g and told me to keep a food diary for two weeks then see the diabetic nurse.<\/p>\n<p>A friend of mine has given me a monitoring machine (Optium Xcced) and I have played with the thing three times a day. But I only get a &quot;Hi&quot; result not once have I had a reading.<\/p>\n<p>I am feeling pretty ****, no energy, drinking like a fish and have flashes before my eyes. Oh an wobbly weak feet even though I am exercising.<\/p>\n<p>I want to know should I worry or just wait until I see the dietian?<\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever I have joined a forum before on any subject I have been told I am in the wrong place. So I formally apologise now. I will also say hello as I joined the forum today. I was newly diagnosed diabetic on Christmas eve. I have been coming ill for quite a while and took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":824,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-616940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9NivD-newbies","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/824"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}