GD- Morning Blood Sugar

[tinkerbellkj]

Hello ladies,

I was recently diagnosed with GD and have been checking my sugar 4x a day. My doctor/specialist have both stated it can be diet controlled and I should not need medication. I have notice that my numbers after breakfast are always the highest.

During the day my sugars are usually between 90-100. My fasting is usually around 85 which is fine, but today after breakfast it was 153! I was not happy. I had eggs with cheese, and 1/2 of an English muffin. I have eaten this breakfast for 3 days, but today it seemed to really spike it, as 153 is the highest I have had (the other days it was around 116 or 120). I'm thinking I need to cut out the English muffin (despite the nurse saying that was a good thing to have for breakfast, but it's just clearly not working for me!) Does anyone have any tips?? Should I eat some carbs before bed? Any good ideas to eat for breakfast? It's definitely the hardest meal of the day!

 

[Kylarsmom]

Was the english muffin whole wheat? If not, I'd try switching to a whole wheat english muffin and you may even be able to have more! If it was whole wheat, then it was probably some weird fluke or something, if you eat that all the time and it never messes up your blood sugar. Or sometimes other things affect it like stress and exercise/lack of... Good luck, it takes awhile to figure things out but you will learn from your mistakes and get better! BTW 150's is higher than its supposed to be, but its still really good if that's the highest spike you have gotten!!!

 

[tinkerbellkj]

It wasn't whole wheat... I will have to get some and see if that helps! 150 has been the highest I've gotten, I haven't been even close to that other times. It's definitely kind of like a puzzle trying to figure this all out!

 

[Kylarsmom]

Yes it is! If you stick with your whole wheats they are slow acting carbs and take a lot more to make your blood sugar go up, although too much of them can make it too high as well! its the white breads that are bad! =)

 

[Emmea12uk]

As your hormone levels rise, your gd will worsen. Also fluid intake and exercise make s huge difference. If breakfast is a struggle then you may want to finish it off with a big glass of water and a walk.

 

[tinkerbellkj]

As your hormone levels rise, your gd will worsen. Also fluid intake and exercise make s huge difference. If breakfast is a struggle then you may want to finish it off with a big glass of water and a walk.

Really I did not know that. I'm starting to get frustrated already, my fasting number was 99 this morning and it was 100 yesterday. I'm not sure if there is anything I can do to get those numbers down or not. I really wanted to go through this without medication but now I'm not so sure especially if it's only going to get worse.

I see my doctor on Monday and I'm going to ask her about the numbers, the 153 was still the highest I've been, nothing has come close to that, but I am concerned about my fasting numbers.

 

[Tanikit]

After meal numbers can be influenced by what you eat and how you exercise. Water can also help to bring them down though not to a great extent.

The fasting levels are also affected by a number of things - one of the main things is the cortisol levels that rise early in the morning (often around 05:30 or 06:30) so the early you get up the more likely you are to have normal levels, but then you need to eat fairly early too. The other thing that can affect it is what you eat at night as your liver very often releases glucagon in the night to raise sugar levels - if you can prevent your liver from doing this by eating some long acting carbohydrate (MUST be low GI) before you go to bed then you may find it stabilises your fasting levels.

Good luck - your levels are good but it is also natural for insulin resistance to increase as pregnancy progresses and then the levels do normally rise a bit. Hang in there.

 

[kdea547]

Try eating some cheese, meat, or a few nuts right before bed (no carbs!). It might help keep your morning blood sugars lower and more stable. Look up the dawn phenomenon. Everyone's body starts priming itself early in the morning by releasing stress hormones and glucose. People with blood sugar/insulin resistance issues can't process this morning surge as effectively as "normal" people and tend to have higher morning blood sugars. Also, make sure that your carbs are the good kind. Whole grain with a good amount of fiber will be processed more slowly and shouldn't cause such a big spike in blood sugar.