belfie - congratulations!!wishing you a very h&h PG
no real suggestions beyond what you're doing - the endo told me to do much the same but there's no guarantees it won't come back. wtg on the 8kg as well!
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belfie - congratulations!!wishing you a very h&h PG
no real suggestions beyond what you're doing - the endo told me to do much the same but there's no guarantees it won't come back. wtg on the 8kg as well!
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Belfie, congratulations. I managed to avoid GD in my second pregnancy even though I was on about 120 units of insulin every day with my first. But to be completely honest, I have no idea why. I was 5kg lighter before my 2nd and have permanently changed to low GI bread and rice but apart from that there isn't that much difference. I do have one theory though - prior to pregnancy #1 I was drinking a fair bit of Coke. I know that is one of the worst offenders for BSL spikes and I now suspect that it was one of the main reasons that I got GD (along with crappy genes, crappy eating habits etc) the first time but not the second when I had given it up.
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Hi ladies
So far my insulin isn't helping a great deal, so am going up to 16 units a day (8 in the morning and 8 at night) until monday, then the nurse is gonna call me to see how I'm going. They are a little confused as to why the insulin isn't helping my breaky levels as I'm only eating weetbix or multigrain toast with equal sugar or vegemite..and still getting over 10 bsl. Soooooo we'll see what happens, the nurse did use the 'induce' word though if we can't stabilise them really soon
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Linzy - That's a shame the insulin hasn't helped your morning levels. Have you tried any other breakfasts? I know when there was a few of us in here, what worked for one didn't work for another. For example beans are supposed to be low GI, but they always sent my BSL's up. It might be worth trying a few other things - can you stomach porridge? Or eggs?
Artechim & Sloane - thanks so much for the congratses. Well I'm a bit nervous. I've been doing a few random tests, and my fasting is often 6 or over. Dr Google (ha)! tells me that for GD that's enough to send me for a OGTT (and seems as though it would be diagnostic if I keep getting it). But ironically enough during my PG it was my post-meal ones that were always over, never my fasting. So i'm doing a fasting glucose blood test tomorrow and we'll see what that shows. I woulda thought it was too early for the PG to be doing anything though, as the placenta isn't really "in play" yet (so to speak!). Can you guys shed some light? Am I worrying for nothing? Thanks
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Belfie, how many weeks are you?
I did my GTT at 17wks and I had it then, so who knows when it actually started but I would be interested to know.
Good luck with your test tomorrow. Fingers are crossed for you.
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Belfie, how many weeks are you?
I did my GTT at 17wks and I had it then, so who knows when it actually started but I would be interested to know.
Good luck with your test tomorrow. Fingers are crossed for you.
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linzy - i tend to agree with belfie, maybe try something else for brekky? like belfie said some things set some people off & not others - for me it was rice. no matter how small the portion of a low GI rice like basmati, my levels would shoot up. i didn't reaslise they could incude so early! i was induced but refused until i was 40 weeks & my compromise was ctg monitoring & a couple of growth scans. what does your ob or doc say? in the end, the endo made recommendations but it was the ob that had the final say over induction, if that makes sense?
belfie - it does seem very early. how did you go with the post-natal fasting glucose test? my levels were a little high with that, but just showed glocose impairment & the endo said just randomly check fasting levels & it's only a problem if over 7. obviously now you're PG it'd be different, but they wouldn't normally check in a subsequent PG until 14 weeks or so, would they? ugh, i used to know all this stuff but my brain has turned to mush! good luck with the test today - let us know how you go
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I got confused with the induction thing, they meant in the later weeks they would have to induce. When I rang the nurse back she explained it all, oops! As for basmati rice..yes me too!! I got a high 12 bsl after a small portion of it last week! Have tried a few different cereals and toast for breaky, some either don't fill me up, or have hidden things in them that just make my levels blow out. We'll see how I go with the new insulin levels
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hey guys - well I've decided I'm doing things the wrong way round. I was given this form to do the fasting one before I got PG, but a) i forgot and b) I got PG very quickly. So I was gonna just go do it now... but DH has talked me out of it, saying that the doc will prolly want different tests so I should just go see her first.
Megan - I'm only just over 4 weeks preggo, so verrrrrry early.
Sloane - my post-natal fasting test was ok but I did get a few high-ish ones on my own monitor.
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that sounds like a better plan!
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Belfie: I have tried porridge, weetbix and toast..but just been to see the diabetic ob at the hospital yesteday and she bumped me up to 11 units in the morning and 8 at night. We'll see how that goes, she thinks it might be because I am having weetbix, then an hour later a banana then an hour later checking my levels which is a false reading. So I am to wait two hours before having fruit or having the fruit with the cereal and doing my levels 2 hours after either. But they still wanna keep my insulin at 11 regardless as I got a 12.7 from just weetbix and a banana the other day. But after dinners and lunches and before breaky are all good
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