Gestational Diabetes General Chatter #4

[Stars69]

Congratulations on your baby boy!

Glad everything is well Principessa! Goodness do you have time to say what happened to make him arrive so early? Hope that you are both doing well and yay for no more GD testing!

I'm having a bit of trouble, ms is pretty bad now so I find i have to skip a few meals. I know I shouldn't but I just feel so sick so there are a few bare patches in my record book, guess I will have to explain them when I go back to the hospital next Tuesday!

Hope everyone is well!

[principessa76]

Hey Tenny & Stars!

What a surprise huh? I have no idea what happened. My OB says that the medical world still does not know what causes the start of labour so it will forever remain a mystery I guess. I've posted my story in the birth stories now so have a read and a laugh! I'm probably heading home from hosp tomorrow so just going to have to get my head around not taking my little man with me..... hopefully he'll be out next week. He's doing really well.

Stars - Sorry to hear your M/S is back. That must be really annoying. Things will work out though. Don't worry about the bare patches in your book. We can't all be perfect all of the time. You're so close to the end now anyway!

[Stars69]

Wow, well done I just read your story!

It must have just been his time to arrive and it must have been meant to be for him to be born so quickly and early he must have known how much you were looking forward to meeting him! You must not be able to wait to bring him home!

I was looking at my ticker thinking surely I must have more time than that to go! It can't be right that it's so close...but I guess it is!

Thanks I just hope i don't get given a hard time about the bare spots!

[Jewel]

I hope the m/s settles down for you, Stars.
You poor thing. If your other levels have been alright, I'm sure they won't mind the blank spaces in your book. You can't help it, you've been sick.

Wow, what a birth story, principessa!
So fasttttt. I hope I get a fast labour this time, even though the 12hrs I had with DS is considered "quick" as they told me at the hospital. lol.

I'm still ploding along with the BSLs. Same old thing. I'm sick of it. Lol.

xx

[Stars69]

Thanks Tenny, I hope it settles down too..can't believe it's come back again

Am sooo tired though, wondering if that is part of it or if it is just the time I am at.

I am well and truly over myself now!

[Becci]

Congratulations!!!

So I went to have my test. Fasted and all, and they had lost my form. Was going to have to wait for and hour and a half for the duty dr to arrive at the drs clinic to get a form before IMVS would start my test. They couldn't take the first bloods and start the glucose without the form.
So I rescheduled and will be fasting tonight ready for the test in the morning. See the dr on Friday morning. Not sure if my results will be back in time though.
Anyway just giving you all a heads up.

[Jewel]

I can't believe they lost your forms.
Good luck with it tomorrow morning & your appt on Friday.
I hope they don't lose your forms again.

I hate fasting. Lol.
xx

[Becci]

Thanks.
I know that they have them this time.
At least I am booked in for 8.15am so don't have to fast too long, will sleep through most of it.
Will let you all know how I go.

[Becci]

I got my results yesterday and I have GD. My fasting bsl was 5.4 and my 2 hour was 7.6. My 2 hour was under the allowed 8 but my fasting was high.
So I see the Diabetic Educator at the drs surgery on Thursday and the Dietician on Friday.
So will see how that all goes.

[Jewel]

Hi Becci.
Sorry to hear you have GD.
What was the max level you're allowed for the fasting one?

Good luck with the appointments this week.
I hope everything goes well, and you get lotsa helpful information.
It is alot of information to take in all at once, but once you get used to it and know what foods work well for you, it gets easier.

We're for you and we'll try and answer any questions you may have too



Uh. So I've had an interesting weekend... I'm a private person so I don't share that I have diabetes with people, so I just do my own thing, yeah sort of hiding it.. but it's my own choice.
I did ok with the inlaws here this weekend, considering they eat all that nice food and bread from the bakery alot.
I did have a bit of a meltdown in private with just my DP, and I took it out on him alot cause I really need him to help me stay strong alot of the time. + Hormones too.
But anyways, it's all good.

Hope you all had a great weekend.
xx

[Becci]

Thanks Tenny. The max I was allowed was 5 so I wasn't too much over, but I guess every little bit counts.

[Jewel]

You were only just over, and were under the allowed 8.
Hopefully that means you'll be able to keep it all diet controlled easier and no insulin, cause it was only just over.
Even though they give you time to try and control it by diet firstly anyways.

Fingers crossed!!

[Becci]

That's what I'm hoping for too. Guess we'll see how we go.

[Jewel]

I'm sure you'll do fine.

[Niamh75]

I got my results yesterday and I have GD. My fasting bsl was 5.4 and my 2 hour was 7.6. My 2 hour was under the allowed 8 but my fasting was high.
So I see the Diabetic Educator at the drs surgery on Thursday and the Dietician on Friday.
So will see how that all goes.

Hi Becci im in the same boat my fasting came back High as well at 5.7 mine second blood was an hour and a half later and was 6. something cant remember now I already knew I had gd though Ive been diet controlled so far but my fasting keeps going up so im insulin now

interested to see how you go my doctor has me checking my bloods an hour after i eat instead of two

Good luck this Thursday and Friday

[Jewel]

Wow. Only an hour after you eat?
Did you ask why?

[Becci]

Went really well today. The DE save me a brand new glucometer too. I have to test four times a day and two hours after my meals. At this stage anyway.
The lancettes didn't hurt as much as was expecting either which was good.
Am thinking of setting a timer on my phone or something so I don't forget to do my bsls later on too.
Will see that the Dietician has to say tomorrow.

[Niamh75]

Wow. Only an hour after you eat?
Did you ask why?

Think they the way they do it here im in Ireland at the mo Ive to aim for below 5 before I eat and below 7 and hour after i finish eating

what does the level have to be two hours after you eat