Hi

I've been a bit of a lurker on the forums for a while. I first found bb when we had a downs scare at 20 weeks and had to have an amnio (everything fine luckily) but have had a dreadful pregnancy, including extreme MS (four times on drips and lost 11kgs), aneamia, low blood pressure and now GD.

My GTT was only 8.2 (d'oh) and I have been testing my blood for the last two days and have had a couple of highs (7.2, 7.7) and a couple of exacts (5.0,7.0) but am in that 'lets see how this affects me" stage lol. I had one month of people (ie Mum and hubby) congratulating me on eating doughnuts and chocolate (at least your keeping something down) now its all, "you're going to eat that?" lol. So I've cut out all the sugary badness I love so much.

My biggest problem at the moment is the anaemia and low blood pressure means people are telling me not to exercise too much etc because I have these fainting spells.

Has anyone else had this combination of problems? I guess I'm just having a bit of a whinge lol, and wanted to introduce myself. I've found bb really helpful and useful over the last couple of months. I'm hoping that over the next few days I can really keep my levels within range so I can show I can do it on diet alone, and that the next seven weeks speed by!