Gestational Diabetes Chatter #6

[belfie]

g'day everyone... it's me again

I've failed my GCT and am being referred straight to my old endo (as I stuffed my GTT last PG by vomiting 1.5 hours in).... so they're just working off the fact that my 1 hour is bad and they probably can't get a 2 hour. So i'll probably be monitoring BSL's to start with to see if I am getting high readings or not. I've still got my BSL machine from last time, just don't have any in-date strips. So I'm gonna ask the endo whether it's worth trying to do the GTT as that's the only way to rule it out IYKWIM. Whereas with the BSL's, what he said last time is that if your BSL's are good we can assume either a) you don't have it or b) it's well controlled with diet... but we can't say you don't have it. BUT if I monitor for a week or so and DO get high BSL's when they'll say I do have it, and I've saved myself doing the GTT! I guess I just want to be really sure if I do have it or not, given the implications it can have with insulin/birth/labour/baby admissions to SCN etc!

So yeah... spent the weekend feeling REALLY stressed and miserable... but now I'm feeling oddly calm! Don't think it's sunk in yet... maybe it will once I start doing those darn fingerpr1cks again it will! And just reminding myself of that silver lining, I probably won't gain anymore weight - it sure is one way of keeping PG weight healthy!!

Hope everyone else is going ok

[~mamaspice~]

So yeah... spent the weekend feeling REALLY stressed and miserable... but now I'm feeling oddly calm! Don't think it's sunk in yet... maybe it will once I start doing those darn fingerpr1cks again it will! And just reminding myself of that silver lining, I probably won't gain anymore weight - it sure is one way of keeping PG weight healthy!!

Yep belfie, good point! I'm nearly 32 weeks in and haven't gained a single kilo yet the whole pregnancy It's a pain having to pri@k your finger 4 times a day but fingers crossed your BSL's are good.

[~mamaspice~]

I have just been put on 4 units of insulin in the evenings, Boohoohoo

[belfie]

Aaaw noes that's a pain! Is that your first insulin? How's it going?

Well I'm off to see my endo on Fri arvo... will be interesting to see what they say!

[~mamaspice~]

Yep belfie, first time on insulin. I was a little freaked about doing it tonight but it wasn't that bad. I just wish I didn't have to go on it! Hopefully the 4 units at night is enough to keep my fasting BSL's down.

Good luck with your appointment on friday.

[belfie]

ooh I remember the first one at home was hard. I did it ok in front of the DE, but on my own the next day... I made DH cheer me on! Well done for doing it, you've got the hardest one out of the way

[~mamaspice~]

ooh I remember the first one at home was hard. I did it ok in front of the DE, but on my own the next day... I made DH cheer me on! Well done for doing it, you've got the hardest one out of the way

Aww, thanks belfie!