Oh and I'm negative for LADA!!! I burst into tears when the endo told me, and he asked me why I was crying and I said *ahem* 'It means I can still drink beer' that sounds horrible but thats just what flew out of my mouth I'm not an alcoholic or anything I just really love a cold one on a hot day..and for the last 3 months hubby has been brewing his own and I haven't been able to enjoy any :/
Also my Ob (not my Endo/Diab/Ob) says that bubs is perfectly fine size wise, and that he isn't concerned about my not putting weight on. I've put 10 kilos on he reckons thats enough.
I also got my referral for my c section today, so I'm guessing they do c sections at 38 weeks? In which case..I meet my lil girl in 3 weeks! Argh!
linzy - yay for the neg for LADA & for stabilised BSLs! not sure when they do c-sections...they offered me an induction at 38 weeks but i refused until i was at term. not sure if it's the same for c-sections?
Linzy, I know what you mean, I died when I saw that my BS was 6.9 this morning. I am clearly doing something wrong. I love love love peaches - so maybe thats my problem, I did have one yesterday.
I had been diagnosed as type 2 diabetic, pre pregnancy - but this managed to clear up when I had gastric banding. I lost 30kg. Unfortunatley during the IVF process and now pregnancy most of my weight has come back - as you cannot have the gastric band tight during pregnancy or if you go under anaesthetic.
Seems my diabetes has reared its ugly head!
I am sure I will come up 100% for gestational, Whats the process now? did your OB put you on insulin? or did you have to see someone else?
One of the girls on here has mentioned that the morning bsl is more based on hormones than what youve eaten and my endo told me that too so it's not all your fault!! hehe but yeah peaches and bananas were baddies for me, yet i can eat a handfull of strawberries? weird!
The process that I've been through 4 times in the last 4 years has been the glucose tolerance test where you fast overnight, then have blood taken, then drink the sugary drink, an hour later have blood taken, then another hour have more blood taken.. I think it might be a lil different in different states and hospitals but I've had the same tests in both WA and VIC
If your positive they first try to control your sugars with diet, but I have heard most women nowadays end up on insulin. I ended up seeing a Diabetes Educator, Diabetes Dietician and Diabetes Ob/ Endo who actually most of them all told me the same things, it was the educator that put me on insulin tho. But again it might be done differently in different states and hospitals maybe if its a private hospital it might be different again.
And I just noticed your in Perth! I moved over here two years ago and am very homesick! I am missing King Edward Hospital the most as the staff, obs and system was free, fast and very personal. Here the hospital I go to is also free but blood tests and scans aren't! I wait between 2 and 4 hours for one appointment I hate the hospital I'm at at the moment but I only have a few weeks left
sloane: Not sure if it's 38 weeks, i'm hoping it is so I can hold my lil one earlier but will find out Monday what the date is
Hi All. I wrote a bit of a first time rant, but I took to long to post it and it was lost
Anyway, Hi. I've been reading this thread for a little bit. A week ago I had my GCT, and then got the call saying I needed to follow-up with a GTT. From my reading on-line (and my knowledge by being a medical scientist) I knew that there was a good chance I had GD. By getting a high reading on the GCT I knew there was a high chance I was not one of those lucky people who come up negative in the GTT. And I was right. My fasting was 5.2, which my doc was fine with, but my 2 hr was 11.2! So now I wait to see the Diabetics Educator at the Angliss and go through the process of obtaining readings and trying to control my numbers with my diet. My doc's quietly indicated there is a chance I'll go on insulin. The way she said it and the context of the conversation - I think she thinks I definately will. She wants my levels to be under 7 (she told me the educator would expect more, but that my doc was fine with <7). The question I have, is with such a high BSL as 11.2 in the GTT, am I going to be able to get it below 7 through diet alone? I'm not optimistic.
I realise some women on here really want to carry their baby to term, but I actually like the idea of it coming a little earlier (if need be). I might only be 29 weeks, but I already just feel so uncomfortable (first pregnancy!!). The thought of it being 8 or 9 weeks away instead of 11 or 12 feels more bearable.
I guess I will find out more on Monday followed by the BSL monitoring. Fun times ahead!
Hi Crums, sorry to hear your in the same boat as us :/
I don't know if having a high 2 hour post GTT test is an indicator of how you will do with your diet. As I only got a 9 two hour post drink with the GTT test and I ended up on insulin. It's really different for everyone, I can eat some foods that would send other people's bsls through the roof. Yet I have a banana or peach and mine sky rocket. Some people can't eat carbs with alot of sugars, or fruits because of the sugars..and sugar in general like icecream and lollies. It's very hit and miss and it's taken me since the 20th of December to stabilize my sugars, even with insulin and good dieting. I was put on the insulin because my diet wasn't working and I was basically starving myself to get the levels they wanted. In actual fact the injecting of insulin doesn't hurt me at all, it's less painful than the finger prigging I do 4 times a day. I was terrified of being put on insulin, it seems to be more common nowadays to get you on the insulin quicker and some docs (i've heard in the last few weeks) will put some preggy women on insulin as soon as they get a positive GTT.
Good luck with your tests and stuff in the next few days/weeks, I'm always popping in so I can offer you all of my experience with GD, even if you probably know alot of it already being in the medicine field yourself There is alot of support here so ask any questions you have.
I was kinda hoping they would induce me due to my sugar levels for this pregnancy but it was really only so I could hold my daughter sooner. But altho my levels were high it's done nothing to my daughter's size and I'll be meeting her in 3 weeks via c section..so thats two weeks earlier than expected ... I can't complain
crums - my post GTT reading was around the same but i managed the GD by diet for a number of weeks before going on insulin. i don't think it's an indicator as such because a glucose drink isn't really representative of what a good diet will do to your sugars, more how your body copes with an overload of glucose - if that makes sense? a non-diabetic person will be able to regulate their BSL even with a big does of glucose but with the GD you can't. insulin comes into play when your body can't stabilise your BSL with even a regular diet. i *think* that's right - but obviously i'm not a professional! good luck on monday
I'm not an alcoholic or anything I just really love a cold one on a hot day..and for the last 3 months hubby has been brewing his own and I haven't been able to enjoy any :/
good luck on monday 
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