{"id":11911,"date":"2016-08-29T14:09:33","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T14:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=11911"},"modified":"2016-08-29T14:09:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T14:09:33","slug":"how-do-i-manage-diabetes-and-put-on-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/11911","title":{"rendered":"How do I manage diabetes and put on weight?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your question and the detailed information which really helps.<\/p>\n<p>It is great that you have managed to control diabetes without treatment by being active. This is really important &#8211; and is probably more important than trying to be a higher weight.<\/p>\n<p>Managing diabetes is complex though and these are questions that you really need to discuss with your doctor.<\/p>\n<p>Although you said you were using zidovudine without knowing the other drugs it is impossible to know whether your HIV combination is related. Some protease inhibitors can affect glucose levels.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than changing medicine it sound more important to discuss everything in detail with your doctor.<\/p>\n<p>This link has some information about HIV and diabetes.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/side\/increased-blood-sugar-levels-and-risk-of-type-2-diabetes\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/side\/increased-blood-sugar-levels-and-risk-of-type-2-diabetes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Diabetes UK has more information about diabetes and managing blood glucose levels.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.diabetes.org.uk\">https:\/\/www.diabetes.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I am HIV+ and diabetic, on ART\u00a0from 2010. My last CD4 count was sbove 700. I am using zidovodine combination. My blood glucose levels are 250 * post lunch.<\/p>\n<p>I am 55 years old, 5 feet 6&#8243; tall and weigh 57.5 kg. My original weight used to be 60 to 63 kgs. I am very active, walk 3 km daily, drives 50 km on average. I want my glucose levels to come down and gain at least 2 to 3 kgs .<\/p>\n<p>I was diabetic before starting ART. One year on art my glucose levels have come down to normal without any medication for diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>I gained\u00a0 about 5 kg weight reaching 63 kgs.\u00a0Then slowly my weight is decreased and glucose levels up.\u00a0Pl advise about continuing same medicine. or to change the medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-complications-and-coinfections","category-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}