Anyone diabetic before pregnacy

[Tanikit]

Hawalkden he's gorgeous. Hope you are feeling better soon and that you can take Isaac home soon enough.

pink - 10 weeks pregnant - hang in there, you could be in for a rough ride the next few weeks but then it should get better again. How are you managing with the hypos and Caleb?

Lincoln Girl thats nice to get a break from it. How is your little one doing and how are you coping with your baby?

Broodyb I also had to just do my own thing when pregnant quite a lot - you seem to know what your body is doing so keep it up.

Kirima is nearly 9 months old. I am 2lbs off my pre pregnancy weight though would love to lose slightly more. Still breastfeeding so not sure what my sugars will do when I eventually quit but I like that it keeps them down for now.

Jaybear your little girl looks so cute in your avatar - how are things going?

 

[capel]

1.9 jesus ice never seen my.blood sugar go that low!!!

Mine never was untill I got pregnant. From 8 weeks I was very often blow 2. Once I was in front the doctor and he told me to test and I was 1.5. He could not believe that I was looking so normal.

 

[broodyb]

oh my gosh! how low does it need to be before you pass out then? or go into a coma?? Scary stuff!!

At the hospital they told me that after ten years they was quite impressed i still had good hypo awareness, but i guess thats about to go down the pan lol

 

[pink23]

tanikit, im doing ok when im with caleb luckily. i tend to turn off pump as soon as i feel weak. only 28 weeks to go lol.
Tbh the hypos are ok and im doing ok with sugars. last hba1c was 8.5 so hoping it be lower as sugars normally range the 4-10 plus the lows to.
Hope your ok heather and managed to get discharged from hospital xx

 

[hawalkden]

I'm out now . Just need Mr home now . Just hope I don't have another 1.8 like this morning. Between 5-6.30 they drop but if my insulin pump hadn't dropped out of bed I don't think I'd have woken up... :\ which is scary!

Darn hypos for everyone at the moment. Can't keep the darn condition happy

 

[Springtime]

Have a question about hypos. Am GD on insulin. Last night, my sugar levels 2 hours after dinner was 7.2. I was on 13 units of fast acting insulin. I went to bed at 11 pm when my sugars were at 7.2 and when I woke at 2.30 m to pee, felt odd and checked my sugars. They were at 2.7. Don't know how and why that happened. Anyhow, eat a chocolate bar and sugars shot up above the limit.
My question is, is there any way to ride out of a hypo without going to the other extreme?
I am posting this question here as I don't hear of hypos in the GD thread often.
My sugars are so very unpredictable! It's frustrating! Raging hormones I guess.
And I was healthy and active before pregnancy. My BMI was 23. I eat healthy too. I wasn"t a fat junk food addicted couch potato! So it was not my poor lifestyle, but genes to blame for this awful thing, diabetes!

 

[Jaybear5]

Hawalkden he's gorgeous. Hope you are feeling better soon and that you can take Isaac home soon enough.

pink - 10 weeks pregnant - hang in there, you could be in for a rough ride the next few weeks but then it should get better again. How are you managing with the hypos and Caleb?

Lincoln Girl thats nice to get a break from it. How is your little one doing and how are you coping with your baby?

Broodyb I also had to just do my own thing when pregnant quite a lot - you seem to know what your body is doing so keep it up.

Kirima is nearly 9 months old. I am 2lbs off my pre pregnancy weight though would love to lose slightly more. Still breastfeeding so not sure what my sugars will do when I eventually quit but I like that it keeps them down for now.

Jaybear your little girl looks so cute in your avatar - how are things going?

Things are good thankyou hun....She has a cold at the mo tho But she is 5 weeks old today..Eeek scary stuff! xx Hope youre ok

 

[hawalkden]

Have a question about hypos. Am GD on insulin. Last night, my sugar levels 2 hours after dinner was 7.2. I was on 13 units of fast acting insulin. I went to bed at 11 pm when my sugars were at 7.2 and when I woke at 2.30 m to pee, felt odd and checked my sugars. They were at 2.7. Don't know how and why that happened. Anyhow, eat a chocolate bar and sugars shot up above the limit.
My question is, is there any way to ride out of a hypo without going to the other extreme?
I am posting this question here as I don't hear of hypos in the GD thread often.
My sugars are so very unpredictable! It's frustrating! Raging hormones I guess.
And I was healthy and active before pregnancy. My BMI was 23. I eat healthy too. I wasn"t a fat junk food addicted couch potato! So it was not my poor lifestyle, but genes to blame for this awful thing, diabetes!

I'm Type One and my tip and advice would be just have a small carb. Never have chocolate. It's just a fast sugar boost but you still need a carb. For me I have next to my bed a tube of rich tea and have 2/3 then go back to sleep. Chocolate is to slow too.
During the day when I can feel low bloods if in the house I also have a tube of glucose tablets 3-4 to have whilst I make some toast or something if it's during the day. If I'm out and about I have 4-5 and then buy a carb.
Hope they go soon. I've just had my son and it's been hard work juggling expressing and then not getting the hypos an hour later!
It is hard to get the sugar level okay before bed I always go to bed at the moment with my bloods at around 10 becuase I know I'll need to express during the night so don't want my bloods to drop to much!

 

[pink23]

springtime- I usually try and have a small glass of orange juice. That seems to help and a biscuit for the carb to prevent it dropping again. There is no real thing I can say that will def work as Im always stuffing my face when I have a hypo lol xx

 

[capel]

oh my gosh! how low does it need to be before you pass out then? or go into a coma?? Scary stuff!!

At the hospital they told me that after ten years they was quite impressed i still had good hypo awareness, but i guess thats about to go down the pan lol

Thanks god it never happened. And now I have my awareness back. I just totally lose it first and second trimester, got slowly back during third tri and now it is as when first diagnosed. I can feel a hypo at 3.6-3.9. But pregnancy really messed my body.

 

[broodyb]

Can.anyone.give me advice. Ive spoken to.my work to find out whether i will get paid for my, at the moment, weekly hospital appointments... And they said being paid for time off for maternity appointments only counts if they are for ur actual anti natal classes which you take.further on in pregnancy so i wont be gettin paid for any of mine at the moment. Is this right??

 

[shellshocked]

As far as I know if you are in the UK you are entitled to pay for anything maternity related.
"All pregnant employees, however long they have been in their jobs, are entitled to reasonable time off work for antenatal care. Any time off must be paid at your normal rate of pay. It is unlawful for your employer to refuse to give you reasonable time off for antenatal care or to pay you at your normal rate of pay."

https://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Parents/Moneyandworkentitlements/WorkAndFamilies/Pregnancyandmaternityrights/DG_10026556

 

[first]

broodyb what country do you live in? Hope you get it sorted out easily!

 

[broodyb]

Im in the uk.

 

[Tanikit]

Broodyb I passed out a few times from going low - always in the 1s but I have measured my sugars at 0.7 before and I was conscious enough to do it myself. Once the paramedics measured it at 0.2! - I was not conscious at the time though and I have been unconscious at higher levels (1.6) before so its very variable. Hope you can get your leave sorted out - its crazy they don't want to pay you when you have to go for the appointments.

 

[first]

broodyb.....sorry I don't know anything about maternity rules in the UK. I know I don't get paid for any of my apts here, but I'm self employed so it's a bit different.

How have your sugars been?

 

[broodyb]

Well the past week, with the acception of yesterday as i was a little neglectful of then yesterday, since i changed my own insulin its been 20 times better so i been quite happy with them!!

Although i had a letter through with my eye test results which say i have the begining signs of diabetic retinopathy

 

[hawalkden]

:wave:

Hows everyone?

Isaac is home now . He's settling in well I suppose . awake at night but I think that's just being parents I guess. They just loose all their routine from the hospital!

He's doing well though. It's not sunk in that he's ours ..

I've kind of neglected my blood readings though .. when he was in NICU it was rushing round all the time to go and see him also was sandwiches for food and when we get in at 9pm from the hospital me and OH would just crash out. I'd express then bed :\.

I think after all the visitors have been & gone this week & Isaac has a routine going on I'll start making pre made meals in advance. So I'm not rushing around etc.

 

[pink23]

Glad your all home heather, the night switching took us a while to change for caleb as all he wanted to do was sleep in the day lol but we got there and Im sure you will.
There is a sickness bug going around at the mo and typical I picked it up. I had clinic on the mornig and was only there 30 mins but as soon as I got home it really hit me. I hadnt eaten since the night before and any drink I had every hour later I would be sick again. Bloods were stable so reduced my insulin by 50% and they stayed at 7 then at about 5/6 i thought i would check again and it was 10. I checked keytonnes and had 3 +. I knew this was from not eating but I was worried what harm it was causing. I called nhs direct and they passed my details onto local docs then i had to see the walk in entre at 10pm. The dr wanted me in for rehdration. So i got to hospital for about 10:30 and seen by 11 but then waited til 3 for my bed. Luckily I hadnt been sick since 9 but i tried not to drink as I really didnt want to be sick. I think this is why I wasnt important or needed to be seen quick as I hadnt been sick so just had to wait.
I didnt even get fluids until 4 in the morning and had 2 bags in the end.
I just feel like I shouldnt of been there and was looked at like why are you here. If I hadnt of had the keytonnes I wouldnt of bothered. Im going to ring my midwife to try and see her before work at 4:30 as i work at the hospital xx

 

[Jaybear5]

Since having Mylee I just cannot get into testing/being good again...I said I would have a few weeks off to just relax from the whole thing as those 9 months of constant testing/injecting is super hard for me...But now its like 6 weeks on Thursday and I have my post OP apt and know for sure my HBA1C will have risen and I dont want to go off track again like before pregnancy...Arrrrrr!!!