Swapping Healthy/Diabetic will just change the sign on the fold changes. With the updated version of "status", Normal/timepoint 1 is the baseline for all of the comparisons, which is how I expect you and others would want to think about the experiment. Previously it was Diabetic/timepoint 1.
Regarding the error message, just change the "maxit" option to something bigger to see if that goes away. The model is now rather more complicated, so I'm not surprised that it takes more iterations to fit. If you still have things not fitting, then see which rows they are and don't trust the results from them (the other 30,000 or so rows should be fine, however). The results should be from a paired-analysis then.
Regarding the error message, just change the "maxit" option to something bigger to see if that goes away. The model is now rather more complicated, so I'm not surprised that it takes more iterations to fit. If you still have things not fitting, then see which rows they are and don't trust the results from them (the other 30,000 or so rows should be fine, however). The results should be from a paired-analysis then.
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