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01-07-2009, 11:57 AM
| | Junior Member
I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Orange County, California
Posts: 4
| | | Helloooooo All
I'm Lori and I am from Orange County, CA. I have had type 2 diabetes since 2001. I was diet controlled but recently had to go on metformin.  I am here to get more information and meet new friends and maybe be of some help to others.
I am Vegan and have found that I feel better being vegan than I did when I was eating meat. If anyone has questions about that, I have some experience in that area.
Have a great day! |
01-07-2009, 12:12 PM
|  | Super Moderator
I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Knoxville, TN
Posts: 10,080
| | | Hi Lori, welcome to the forums!
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T2, diagnosed 8/31/06.
Metformin 500 mg twice daily
HCTZ 12.5 mg every other day for BP
Enalapril 20 mg 1 daily (ace-inhibitor)
Lower carb dieter (approx. 75 total carbs/day, more on weekends), taking chromium, multivitamin and fish oil tablets
Initial A1C 8/06: 9.6
11/06: 6.2.
03/07: 5.3
06/07: 5.4
10/07: 5.3
05/08: 6.2 (after dealing with shingles & bronchiti)
2/09: 5.5 |
01-09-2009, 09:03 AM
| | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 6,393
| | | Hi Lori & Welcome.
Nice folks and lots of valuable information to be found here.
Karen |
01-09-2009, 09:54 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Sarasota (sort of) Florida
Posts: 1,169
| | | Hey Lori from Florida.
You'll find some good info here .
Art
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My plan is to live forever.
So far, So good
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01-09-2009, 09:59 AM
|  | Super Moderator
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Northern California
Posts: 9,311
| | | Hi Lori and Welcome to Diabetes Forums. I have just started eating vegetarian and find that I also am feeling much better without meat in my diet. I have had a hard time not replacing carbs for the meat that I am not eating. I am still eating dairy and eggs.
Can you give me a sample of your daily diet?
__________________  Nancy Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Teresa diagnosed type 1 October 1986
currently using Medtronic MiniMed
paradigm 715 CLEAR  |
01-09-2009, 01:22 PM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: NC
Posts: 8,563
| | Hi Lori and Welcome. Sorry you (or any of us, for that matter) have to be here but since you do, you have found the best place to be. 
__________________  ~Cin~ Mom always says I'm special. Hmmm........wonder what she means by that?? LOL.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched,they must be felt with the heart.
~Helen Keller~
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01-09-2009, 01:32 PM
| | Senior Member
I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Roanoke, VA
Posts: 675
| | | Hi Lori, Welcome to the forum. Wish I could go Vegan but my wierd body does not asord incomplete proteins if no meat I get really anemic!
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Janlaton
type 2 40 years
Avandia, Glipzide & Metformin
Grandmother to 4 wonderful children
I have diabetes, It does not have me!
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01-09-2009, 01:40 PM
| | Senior Member
I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Essex
Posts: 1,226
| | | Hi Lori! Hello, good evening and welcome to the forum, you’ve chosen a great site, for warmth friendship and loads of information, understanding ones condition and support, you'll be more than delighted with us, glad you’ve join up.
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DX 8/2004
Current Meds
Metformin 500 mg
Ramipril 5mg
Aspirin 75mg
Simvastatin 20mg
2005/6 Getting my
Head around this
Condition.
07- HbA1C 5.2 ChOL 3.2
08- HbA1C 5.4 ChOL 4.2
09- HbA1C 5.5 CHOL 3.6 LDL 1.9 HDL 2.5
Triglycerides 0.60
Many people will try to tell you what you can’t eat with diabetes.
Most will be well-meaning.
Rather than compounding the problem by telling you what you should
eat, I’d recommend a simpler method, eat by your meter.
Buddy 7 Essex uk |
01-10-2009, 10:37 AM
| | Senior Member
I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Gold Country (CA)
Posts: 1,706
| | | Hi, Lori. Welcome to the forums! |
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